The SocialToo Blog

February 27, 2009

SocialToo SocialSurveys – Announcing FriendFeed Support, Featured, and UI Enhancements

Filed under: Announcements — Tags: , , , , — Jesse Stay @ 1:25 pm

At SocialToo, my goal is to make this as social a product, in which you can feel comfortable sharing it with your friends. This morning we launched a few new enhancements to our SocialSurveys product that will make SocialSurveys a little more appeasing to the eyes, more compatible, along with a few new features I think you’ll like.

New Look & Feel

New look and feel – My biggest frustration with the SocialSurveys has been that they have been all Flash, using a product I was unfamiliar with to generate the graphs, and therefore they weren’t very flexible in the number of answers you could add or the size of the answer text. In addition, since they were written in Flash, you couldn’t view them on the iPhone. I’ve modified the survey results to be completely XHTML/CSS driven, so now they will be completely viewable on your iPhone and other non-Flash compatible mobile devices. They also just look a lot cleaner, and take up much less screen real-estate than before. I’m sure we’ll improve this even more in the future.

FriendFeed Support! – I’m proud to announce we’ve added the ability to share your SocialSurveys on FriendFeed! I’m a big fan of this service, so enabling you to share there is a big source of pride for me. Like the surveys, expect us to expand further in this direction as well. If you have another Social Network you’d like to see supported please let us know on our GetSatisfaction page.

Facebook Profile displayed next to the survey – If you filled out the Facebook information when you registered, we’re now displaying a link to your Facebook profile next to the SocialSurveys you created. This will give you increased exposure and help expand your network and bring more awareness to your personal brand.
Featured Surveys
Featured Surveys – Does your brand or business want some increased exposure? Need additional traffic for your particular survey? We now have Featured surveys which display on the home page of each user, as well as the home page for those that have not registered. We have not yet worked out a business model for this yet, but if your business is interested, contact us at advertising@socialtoo.com and make me an offer. We’ll provide a much more structured model around this soon.

These features are just the start. Much more is still forthcoming so please stay tuned! Also, if you would like to advertise your Twitter profile on the site, I’m open to discussing that as well – we do have traditional advertisers, but I think there are areas where your Twitter profile could get optimal exposure.

As always, we welcome your feedback!

February 1, 2009

Track the Popularity of Superbowl Ads with #superbowlads and SocialToo SocialSurveys

Filed under: Announcements — Tags: , , , , , — Jesse Stay @ 1:52 am

Today, with the help of Jeremiah Owyang, Brian Solis, Chris Heur, Louis Gray, and Guy Kawasaki, we’re unveiling a new way of making the polling experience even more social by expanding on a project Jeremiah Owyang put together last year.  The idea is simple – discuss and rate your favorite Superbowl ads using the hashtag, #superbowlads, and then come vote on SocialToo on which one was your favorite.  If you don’t have a Twitter account you can sign up here.

We’ve added in a new feature, just for this event, which will collect all the comments surrounding the event under the hashtag, #superbowlads on Twitter, and display them underneath the survey.  If you have a SocialToo account (register here if you don’t), you and your friends can also comment, right under the survey to leave your thoughts and opinions, and it will be sent out, with a link back to the survey, out to your Twitter friends.

You can play with it now, and tomorrow, starting 6pm EST when the Superbowl starts, you can make your vote (although we suggest you wait for it to end!).  We’ll be taking your vote, along with comments you leave, and publishing the results when it’s over.  We’ll publish it here, but you can also reference the results on Jeremiah Owyang’s blog any or via the survey page itself.

This is a new era of making Survey and Poll taking a little more “social”, by enabling you to chat and discuss with others as you vote.  Oh, and stay tuned – there much more to come!

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