Have Poll, Will Vote – Quibblo.com

Polls are the new Black on the Internet. Every site or blog you visit will have at least one poll for some odd question or the other. In fact my most successful post has been based around a poll. Quibblo.com ordered up a sponsored review* to take a deeper look into their take on letting users create and interact with polls, quizzes, surveys and content.

Voting on Polls

The service is pretty straight forward and very simple to begin with. If you're interested in just browsing around the various polls that others have created then you would click on "take" and filter through the tags and are able to vote on virtually hundreds of polls that have already been created. If you register your votes are logged in your account, you can vote without registration.

Creating Polls

But it's more fun when you create a poll on Quibblo.com. So to test out the service I jumped in and started to create my poll quiz. Presented with all the options of creating my quiz in one page the UI is very simple to follow for even the most novice creator.

After creating the quiz, you can add more answers or multiple questions in a quiz. You can preview them which I highly suggest as once you create it you cannot change them later. You are then taken to a registration page, an email confirmation later I'm done.

So now my quiz was saved in my account, from the quiz page I could see they have options of adding it to my site, posting it on digg, del.icio.us, facebook and emailing it. This could be a good way for people to generate polls and just submit it to the popular social sites and hopefully if the poll/quiz is interesting enough to get to the front page or get popular to get a market survey.

Though this might not always work if directly linked to.

Here's my quiz

It didn't take long to make, and it's fully customizable. Javascript and a direct link to the quiz are the other options.

I can see the amount of people that have taken the quiz, the rating given to the quiz itself and a bar chart showing me the outcome in a nifty looking flash widget.

Uses and Benefits

The service seems to be well laid out and easy to use, so that people can spend more time creating polls rather than figuring out how to. The use for these kind of things are huge with many bloggers and sites conducting their own market research to find out the behavior of its users and how they would like to see things change or get better and more.

Negatives

Sometimes polls can be very easily gamed, so you always have to put an error margin on these things of at least 3 - 5%, or more. As some people might just willingly give the wrong answers and/or suggestions. So a poll creator should not take the results at face value of how they need to do things but rather as an indication of the direction they should head in, with their own personal instincts and input as well of course.

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