http://blog.polleverywhere.com Evolution of features and design Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:42:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To participate in a poll, your audience has to text the word CAST followed by a space and a randomly assigned number. This can be unintuitive for first time texters. Our text message replies are currently built on a wonderful service called TextMarks which supports its business by tagging SMS ... http://blog.polleverywhere.com/2008/08/18/the-two-worst-things-about-poll-everywhere/ Bonjour, ni hao, y konnichiwa! Poll Everywhere is unveiling new international text message (SMS) coverage. Hundreds of people have emailed us about using Poll Everywhere in their country, so we're very happy to finally offer text message service to areas outside the United States. "Beta" features are things that might ... http://blog.polleverywhere.com/2008/08/13/international-sms-voting/ In the first months of Poll Everywhere's life, we used to have a pie chart mode that people could select as a way to present their poll results. Our usage reports showed that nobody was using pie charts. When we took them away, nobody complained. And nobody has requested pie ... http://blog.polleverywhere.com/2008/07/28/why-pie-charts-are-bad-for-polls/ We've added instructions for how to use your live Poll Everywhere polls inside 280 Slides presentation. If you're not aware yet, 280 Slides is a breakthrough in web application design and usability.  It's like PowerPoint for the web, and it's even more powerful than Google Presentations. Using standard web technologies, they have proven ... http://blog.polleverywhere.com/2008/07/22/embed-polls-in-280slidescom-slideshows/ The folks over at LifeHacker discovered Poll Everywhere recently and decided they thought it was a useful LifeHack. We hope you too continue to enjoy Poll Everywhere to create online and SMS polls for live (and non-live) audiences. http://blog.polleverywhere.com/2008/07/21/covered-on-lifehacker/ For the latest release of Poll Everywhere, we improved many small but important details. The most visible of these improvements are in the charts. During Brad's time at NECC he noticed that a lot of presenters didn't change the default poll settings, making the charts unreadable in larger rooms. In ... http://blog.polleverywhere.com/2008/07/16/core-improvements/ Earlier today we switched short codes in response to the outage on the 41411 short code. We're happy to say that the issues have been resolved and we have switched all of our polls back to the 41411 short code. We realize at Poll Everywhere that reliability is a huge deal ... http://blog.polleverywhere.com/2008/07/16/back-to-41411/ We want you to be able to rely on our service.  This is the first outage we've experienced in a year of SMS service.   We've fixed this morning's SMS Shortcode outage by switching to a different provider.  Instead of 41411, your polls will direct people to text their CAST #### votes ... http://blog.polleverywhere.com/2008/07/16/text-message-service-fixed/ This morning we have been experiencing intermittent text message service. We're working with our aggregator (the folks between us and the phone company) to figure out the problem. For now only web voting and smartphone voting are functioning properly. We will be posting updates on this blog or you can follow ... http://blog.polleverywhere.com/2008/07/16/text-message-service-outtages/ I was blown away at the usage of technology at the NECC 2008. While I was at EduBloggerCon two Saturday's ago, everybody had their laptops open or cellphones turned on and were twittering, blogging, or streaming the sessions over the web. While most presenters cringe at the thought of all ... http://blog.polleverywhere.com/2008/07/10/necc-2008-recap/