Archive for the ‘Polls’ Category

Posted on January 15, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Location Based Poll: What is your favorite Location based social network/app?

We’re only 14 days into 2010 and if there was one social media / technology prediction that everyone have been accurate about so far, it is that location based apps will be the next big thing. Now with 15 plus location social networks available many have already deemed Foursquare the clear leader, and if you look at the compete website numbers you’ll see why. After purchasing foursquare.com around August, their website numbers have passed some of the early location based social networks in just two months by more than double.

I don’t have all the data on how many users each location based social network has, but I do know that despite what many believe, the location based war is still very much wide open. For businesses looking to implement location based marketing to reach out to their customers, I suggest looking at all of the options and find out which location social network / app your customers are using before starting any with geo marketing.

To help businesses with their decisions and to provide me with some research data, I’m interested to see what is your favorite location based social network. Take a second and vote in the poll below. Also feel free to let me know why it’s your favorite location based app in the comments.

If you want to connect on Brightkite, Foursquare, Gowalla or Whrrl you friend on one or all of the profiles below:
Brightkite: http://brightkite.com/people/waynesutton
Foursquare: http://foursquare.com/user/waynesutton
Gowalla: http://gowalla.com/users/waynesutton
Whrrl: http://whrrl.com/person/7392180/Wayne_Sutton

*Disclosure: I’m a partner with TriOut.

Posted on November 19, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

What’s happening now on Twitter?

You remember the TV show What’s happening? Well now you can answer the question on Twitter as they have switched from “What are you doing” to What’s happening?

From the Twitter Blog: What’s Happening
Twitter was originally conceived as a mobile status update service—an easy way to keep in touch with people in your life by sending and receiving short, frequent answers to one question, “What are you doing?” However, when we implemented the service, we chose to leave something out. To stay simple, Twitter did not require individuals to confirm relationships. Instead, we left things open.

The fundamentally open model of Twitter created a new kind of information network and it has long outgrown the concept of personal status updates. Twitter helps you share and discover what’s happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. “What are you doing?” isn’t the right question anymore—starting today, we’ve shortened it by two characters. Twitter now asks, “What’s happening?”

I don’t think this will change your behavior on Twitter or will it? I really think this will help new users and as Twitter work on their overall marketing/monetization strategy / for 2010. Take the poll below and let me know what you think about the What’s happening now change in the comments.

Posted on April 25, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Poll: ReTweet format battle: Via vs RT vs ReTweet . Which one do you prefer?

Over the past seven days I have beta tested two new desktop twitter applications, had two twitter web apps pitched for me to review and caught an exclusive look at an upcoming update to an existing twitter iPhone application. It has been one tweet of a week! As an active twitter user I don’t mind beta testing or receiving pitches from developers especially when they listen to my suggestions and that’s what happen yesterday while I was taking a look at a new twitter iPhone app update.

As I was looking at the iPhone app, I asked about the ReTweet format. One of the development team members said they used (Via @twittername) and I said the twitter community prefers RT or ReTweet over Via because RT or ReTweet gives more value to the original tweetier vs the Via format. I mention how some people don’t really pay attention to the Via at the end of the tweet after they read the first part of the 140 characters. I closed my point saying that RT or ReTweet was the standard and should be included in the initial launch of the app because it’s one of the first items people look for or notice when they want to use an app for a ReTweet.

I must have done a good job pitching the ReTweet suggestion because a few hours later I received an email saying that RT has now been added to the application settings. Yeah! Although Via will be used first, at least we’ll have the option to change it to RT.

Was I correct or it’s really not that big of a deal?  Let me know what you think by taking the ReTweet poll below.

When using a twitter application for the iPhone or desktop is the ReTweet format important to you? What other twitter application features are important to you?

Posted on March 8, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Twitter poll & feedback: What would you do without Twitter, build your own community?

If you have been reading the tech news lately then I’m sure you have seen the rumors about Google buying twitter and that Facebook tried to buy twitter? On Saturday Techcrunch posted an article from Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt interview with Charlie Rose, saying that it was “Unlikely” that Google to buy Twitter.  On Friday, I was thinking about the same topic and posted a tweet saying:

If twitter goes down or purchased & closed, where will you send everyone to contact you?
Take a look at the results below curiosity of @twickie

The results are mixed but Facebook seems like the place everyone will try to communicate and with all the changes that Facebook has made recently it’s not a bad idea. For me, my #1 goal is to create a self hosted or managed solution to where I can stay connected with every single twitter follower I have.  How?  First blog rss subscriptions, you can subscribe here: http://bit.ly/18i5X7 or the big orange button on your right :). Next email subscribers, I’ve been collecting email addresses on every site I have, take a look at waynesutton.tv & wayne-sutton.com . Soon I’m going to launch community.socialwayne.com using ning.com and I’m working with a company to launch a mobile sms marketing campaign to build a mobile database but for now you can text get waynesutton to 762763 .

Update: http://community.socialwayne.com is now live, join!

Why the need to collect users or create a community backup?  It’s simple we have come to depended on twitter and don’t forget how felt during the failwhale season of 2008.  Plus if you can create or build your own community, it increases your social capital which you can use to possible create brand partnerships or other networking opportunities. More on social capital here: Digital Urbanite . Don’t worry as a twitter fanboy, I’m still tweeting as usual but now with everyone on the twitter bandwagaon and buyout talks showing up every other week, I’m just being a little cautious.  Also we’re three months into 2009 and still waiting on a twitter business model and I’m not sure how that will effect the use of twitter.

For those of you who missed the tweet, take the poll below and fell free to leave a comment on your thoughts about building your own community; why or why not.

What would you do without Twitter?

Posted on December 20, 2008 - by Wayne Sutton

Poll: Help pick my video intro & why I use Vimeo

If you have seen any of my videos on WayneSutton.TV then you know they’re live shows via Ustream.TV and not pre-recorded. We’ll starting after Christmas I’ll be producing a few non live videos for the site and I’m working on a video intro, outro and intro music too. Below are two samples of the intro and I’m looking for your feedback.

The first video is a fade in single word text with a swipe animation, it’s around 14 seconds long. The second video has a fade in to stick text animation that’s 6 seconds long.

Update: The two videos below do not have any audio. thanks via @barrycunningham

Vote in the poll or leave any feedback/suggestions in the comments. If anyone wants to help with the video intro, including audio or special effects feel free to contact me.

intro 1

WayneSutton.TV video intro sample 1 from Wayne Sutton on Vimeo.

intro 2

WayneSutton.TV video intro sample 2 from Wayne Sutton on Vimeo.

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Speaking of Vimeo if you’re a current user, you can add me as a friend here: http://vimeo.com/waynesutton. Also I just create a WayneSutton.TV video channel on Vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/waynesuttontv

A few people have asked me on twitter why do I use Vimeo over Youtube or other video hosting social networks, a few of the reason are below.

• I love Vimeo’s embed player, it’s clean, simple, flush with the page
• Vimeo was one of the 1st video social networks to support HD video uploads
• Vimeo has HD video embedding options
• Vimeo is simple, it’s easy to upload videos
• Vimeo has multiple community building options: channel, groups, albums
• I like Vimeo’s video options to embed custom upload thumbnail, add flickr photos, etc
• Vimeo Plus http://vimeo.com/plus options are great and worth the $59.00 a year

But there are a few features I don’t like about Vimeo or I wish they had such as:

• Video encoding is slow if you don’t have a plus account (I’m a plus user) & it still can be faster.
• Vimeo doesn’t support video comment insertion like Viddler
• You can’t link to a time spot in Vimeo like you can with Youtube
• More options for image/logo overlay
• The ability to support pre-roll video ads

If Vimeo would add or work on those features, they’ll be almost perfect. IMOH

Which Video social networking site do you use and why?

Posted on October 31, 2008 - by Wayne Sutton

Poll: What type of content would you like to see on SocialWayne.com ?