http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2008/09/30/google-moderator-your-organizations-gateway-to-crowdsourcing-questions-almost/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-moderator-your-organizations-gateway-to-crowdsourcing-questions-almost Teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:56:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2008/09/30/google-moderator-your-organizations-gateway-to-crowdsourcing-questions-almost/comment-page-1/#comment-4287 Gabe Garms Thu, 21 May 2009 04:08:36 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/?p=1973#comment-4287 While Moderator is a great tool, it has some serious limitations to successfully polling a large crowd. I ran my first project with Moderator and while I was able to get people to submit an idea and vote on existing ideas on their first visit, I wasn't able to keep them coming back. I polled a few of the people who used the tool and they noted that the lack of email notifications sent out to the community when a new idea is submitted or modified was a turn off. People also wanted to know when users voted on their ideas. Maybe if they add this feature, it may be a little more usable. I'm still looking for a great tool though if anyone has any suggestions. While Moderator is a great tool, it has some serious limitations to successfully polling a large crowd. I ran my first project with Moderator and while I was able to get people to submit an idea and vote on existing ideas on their first visit, I wasn’t able to keep them coming back. I polled a few of the people who used the tool and they noted that the lack of email notifications sent out to the community when a new idea is submitted or modified was a turn off. People also wanted to know when users voted on their ideas. Maybe if they add this feature, it may be a little more usable. I’m still looking for a great tool though if anyone has any suggestions.

]]> http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2008/09/30/google-moderator-your-organizations-gateway-to-crowdsourcing-questions-almost/comment-page-1/#comment-4237 Hermitcrab Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:21:21 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/?p=1973#comment-4237 I think you perhaps misunderstand the purpose of Moderator. The purpose of this tool is not to get answers to questions. That's why the response process is complicated. The purpose is one simple thing. To allow a crowd to rank the questions you want to ask, or to pose questions they want you to deal with, and then vote them up or down. So, for a church use, asking "What bothers you about church web design?" isn't really the best use of the tool. A better option would be for a pastor to ask the congregation to post questions they want answered in upcoming sermons, and then for the congregation to get to vote on all thee questions posed, so the pastor could quickly gauge what topics are most interesting or relevant to the audience. I think you perhaps misunderstand the purpose of Moderator. The purpose of this tool is not to get answers to questions. That’s why the response process is complicated. The purpose is one simple thing. To allow a crowd to rank the questions you want to ask, or to pose questions they want you to deal with, and then vote them up or down. So, for a church use, asking “What bothers you about church web design?” isn’t really the best use of the tool. A better option would be for a pastor to ask the congregation to post questions they want answered in upcoming sermons, and then for the congregation to get to vote on all thee questions posed, so the pastor could quickly gauge what topics are most interesting or relevant to the audience.

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