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!
Making Your SocialToo SocialSurveys a Little more “Social” With User Commenting
For this reason, I’m proud to announce that the commenting you saw around the Twitter bowl we are now making available to everyone. There is a new checkbox, defaulted to checked, that says “Enable Comments” when you create a new survey now. Leave that checked, and now any SocialToo user can comment on the surveys you create. When users comment on your survey, an @reply goes to you, along with a link back to the survey with their comment on Twitter. You may have seen similar functionality via the popular picture sharing site, TwitPic.
I’m pleased with the results of the Tweet Bowl, and I think it shows that Twitter continues to be a valuable source of information about where the interests of people lie and what they’re interested in. SocialToo SocialSurveys are just one more tool on SocialToo to make it easier for you to manage the people you follow, and know more about who those people are. We’ll continue to build on this principle so stay tuned as we seek to build a useful companion to the Social Networks you frequent.
