FYI for our friends, family, and ONEVOX watchers. We are currently hovering at around 1400 visits per day. Average time on the site (for each visitor) is still over 4 minutes, which we are ecstatic over. Just ten days ago our visitor count was less than 100 per day, so progress made.
On the bugs side, we hit a doosie yesterday that essentially prevented voting; but after some scrambling, we’re back in business. If you find something, please let us know so we can fix it. Email support@onevox.com and we’ll track down the issue ASAP.
What can you do to help ONEVOX grow?
- Pose a question using onevox.com/pose.
And if you have your own blog or site:
- Write something about ONEVOX - Tell us and the world what you think.
- Install our widget on your site using onevox.com/tools.
Posted December 27th, 2007
Just a quick acknowledgement to Bruce at GayPatriot.net for adding the ONEVOX.com widget to his site. We are excited to see our widget start making the rounds, and happy that GayPatriot can be a part of the action. To add ONEVOX to your site, visit onevox.com/tools.
Posted December 27th, 2007
Well another ConvergeSouth has come and gone. Our thanks to Sue and the all-volunteer crew for another bell ringer. For out-takes on this year’s event watch Technorati keyword: ConvergeSouth2007 and Flickr tag ConvergeSouth2007.
Here at ONEVOX we had the distinct pleasure of showcasing our new polling system at this year’s event. Pictured below (thanks Sue!) is Jason Calacanis, this years headliner using our site. Jason suggested ONEVOX as the Wikipedia of Polling. As we say here in the south, that’s a long row to hoe, but we’ll do our best.
On Saturday Robert led Ruby Sinreich, Soni Pitts and Keynoter Elisa Camahort in a panel about Social Networks. Our thanks to Sue for the opportunity, though I think I ended up doing more parallel web-surfing than moderating.
At the conference we released our random polling widget. Check the ONEOVOX Blog for more details.
Posted October 27th, 2007
Now you too can ONEVOX. Use the following code to add a ONEVOX Widget to your blog.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.onevox.com/getwidget?width=200" language="Javascript"></script>
You can change the width to suit your site. Try from 160 up to 400.
Please let us know if you have challenges with setting this up on your site.
Posted October 17th, 2007
We have had a number of requests for “Widgets”. For the uninitiated widgets will let you put ONEVOX on your own website. Initially we will have a random question, then move on from there to allow you to tune the questions you want to show on your site.
Stay tuned for ONEVOX widgets.
Posted September 29th, 2007
Site updates for 09.28.2007 are in live.
- We’ve added a Captcha on the Welcome page, and temporarily removed the zip code request field
- The interface has been tuned - no more header / footer blocks
- Categories are gone, we’ve moved to tag-based cataloging
- Search has been improved
The captcha, in case these are new to some folks, prompts you to enter a code to enter the site. Captcha’s help block spam bots and other automated website traffic. ONEVOX is designed for human polling so our desire is to prevent automated traffic from impacting polling results.
Tags will give ONEVOX more flexibility over time. When you pose or vet questions, you can add a tag. We are planning methods for you to update tags for vetted questions, but that is not ready just yet.
Search has been updated, with a much larger update in the works.
Thanks for all the early feedback on ONEVOX. Please keep the updates coming via our contact page, or site survey.
Posted September 29th, 2007
Tomorrow ONEVOX will be doing live demos at a political micro-conference in Durham North Carolina. Put on by IOPL and The John Locke Foundation - the theme is Politics in the Internet Age and we are very excited to be attending.
On Wednesday during our prep work with the conference planners we told them about the site, and within 24 hours we had a bundle of new questions that look to be from conference folk. IOPL’s mission surrounds ethics and politics, so some of the questions we’re along those lines.
Good stuff like this:
On onevox.com.com/q113 – someone asks about moral standards for government officials.
With onevox.com/q110 a visitor wants to know if citizens should be able to see where gas taxes are spent.
Questions like those are at the heart of what we are trying to accomplish with ONEVOX. We’re glad to see people using the system, and we are especially excited to be premiering ONEVOX here in North Carolina at a political event.
Posted September 7th, 2007
Today we did our first live demo of the ONEVOX system. We presented to a Charlotte-based venture capital firm. Reviews were mixed, some in the room really liked the app, others thought getting traffic to the app and retaining repeat visits are going to be a challenge.
A few improvements came out during our discussion, of note:
- Pass will require education to work. Our visitors will need to better understand that passing questions during Vote and Vet have a specific impact on questions.
- People may not Vet unless we force them to by adding Vet cycles into the random question loop.
Overall the meeting went well. We were not directly seeking funding, more so doing an informative demonstration in part to gain feedback on the current state of the project.
Posted July 25th, 2007
Rabbitrock Ventures is developing ONEVOX, is a universal polling system designed to let users ask and answer questions. ONEVOX will be formally released in August 2007.
Posted June 19th, 2007
