Polls are fun, enlightening, and great conversation starters. Best of all, they’re an easy way for lurkers to start participating in your group.
But the best way to use a poll is to gather insight from members. However, this is actually more difficult than you might think. If you want to get real insight from them, you need to know what questions to ask and what answers to offer.
Our latest online chat asked three questions to help build up a picture of how to use polls, good and bad examples and tips on creating a good poll.
Q1. Do you have any good or bad examples of polls
Good polls
Bad Polls
Q2. What would you say are the key elements to building a successful poll for your group?
Q3. What do you think are the best ways to use a poll to start a conversation?
Thank you to everyone that took part and watched the conversation.
So what happens next? There appears to be a range of great poll questions out there that we could collect to have a range of examples that everyone could adapt and use.
Have you seen a great poll recently? What was the question? What was the range of responses? And lastly can you share it?