topic Re: Alone in a universe in ArcGIS Online Questions

Alone in a universe

DellaRobertson — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 03:59:33 GMT

I posted a poll on 21 February 2016 in the ArcGIS Online group. I had 75 views, but no one filled out the poll. I wonder why.

I changed the post to another group. Maybe I will have success.

Does anyone know why users don't fill out the poll?

Thank you.

Re: Alone in a universe

AdrianWelsh — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:25:12 GMT

If no one comments on the poll, then the poll/discussion will not get bumped to the top of the discussion pages. Therefore, it sort of get lost in the GeoNet, unfortunately.

You could post the link to your poll in this post so that users can see it and vote on it.

Re: Alone in a universe

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:34:23 GMT

I wouldn't be worried about it.. the poll with the largest number of views (3177) only had 17 votes in total. People are curious beasts and complicating the fact is the number of views is not the number of unique people viewing. You could have had the owner of the poll checking it multiple times to guage progress and similarly for those that voted, to see how their answer fit into the big question.

Until polls reflect the number of true unique viewers (they do know that you voted and what you voted) it will be hard to guage impact of the poll and interpretation of its results.

Re: Alone in a universe

DellaRobertson — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:38:16 GMT

Thank you, Dan.

I suppose it is too difficult to develop an algorithim to accurately count unique viewers or discount authors who go back to their post.

Della

Re: Alone in a universe

DellaRobertson — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:39:33 GMT

Thank you, Adrian

How do I link the poll to this post?

Re: Alone in a universe

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:02:12 GMT

Della Robertson wrote:
Thank you, Adrian
How do I link the poll to this post?

To answer this question, if you go to the poll and copy the URL, you can paste it in a response here.

Another way to get out appropriate groups to see it is to add a tag with the @ and group name. Those following that group will get notified, but don't post to too many or it may get overlooked too (then it appears more as spam to those getting too many notifications).

Re: Alone in a universe

AdrianWelsh — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:24:30 GMT

I agree with what Rebecca said. Also, you could post a comment on it which would hypothetically bump it to the top of the Recent Activity.

Re: Alone in a universe

MichaelMiller2 — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:06:01 GMT

Just my opinion here.....but those polls and other fluff are just clutter in this forum. I believe most people visit this site to ask questions and find answers.

Re: Alone in a universe

JosephKerski — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:23:30 GMT

Della - I regularly have hundreds of readers on some of my posts but frequently, zero replies. Ditto for the blogs we write - I am sure there are many reasons why most people read and have little time to reply. Keep up the good work you are doing, though! I will look for your poll.

Joseph K

Re: Alone in a universe

DellaRobertson — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 06:48:37 GMT

Michael,

Thank you for your opinion.

I am actually interested in who is using ArcGIS Online because I am a teacher. In any change-effort, it is extremely difficult to move from the comfortable to the innovative. I want to know how many teachers are out there. We can provide support and encouragement to each other.

Now, you know why I created the poll.

Re: Alone in a universe

DellaRobertson — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 06:50:08 GMT

Joseph,

Your comment helps me to understand.

Thank you.

Re: Alone in a universe

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 11:31:34 GMT

Della,

Some suggestions. Add a few more tags to your poll post including maybe something like education, or similar. You should be able to find more that are useful on the list already.

I would also tag/mention a couple of the other education related groups/places using the @ And the place Name. target the groups you think are most likely to have viewers that would respond....it will show up on the tagged list of content. Don't overdue it or it can have the opposite effect. I went to the "Places" tab and filtered by "Ed" as a start to see some of the other locations that might be interested.

With it only being in the grace group, only those that are following that group will tend to see it. Might be too small or a group at this time . (And yet, maybe the 128 members are the same as in the other groups ??) but Education has 231 followers at this time.

(edit...iPad doing strange things this am)

Re: Alone in a universe

DellaRobertson — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 04:45:54 GMT

Rebecca,

When I selected a Place to tag my post, I am given one space. I can't put in more than one Place. Are you saying to type "@" oh, I see.

Thank you!