{"id":129,"title":"Change your voting layout for faster feedback!","description":"We make voting even easier with a simplified list view. Ideal for voting with hidden participants or a lot of options.","post_text":"With today's update we make PollUnit a bit more your \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en\"\u003eonline voting tool\u003c/a\u003e. Many of our users wished to be able to change the layout of \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/voting\"\u003evotings\u003c/a\u003e. Besides the tabular view, where options and participants are visible, there is now also a simplified list view.\r\n\r\nIn the list view, all options available for voting are displayed one below the other. So the participants can easily navigate through all options and assign their votes.\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003eYou will find the setting right in the first step when creating your vote. A small preview shows you how your vote will look like.\u003c/i\u003e\r\n\r\nThe list view is recommended if there are a lot of options to vote for, or the votes of the participants are hidden or only secondary. If the votes of the participants are not hidden, they can be queried via the context menu of the respective option. As admin you can also analyze and export participants and votes in the \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/evaluation\"\u003ePollUnit evaluation\u003c/a\u003e.","created_at":"2021-01-30T09:45:28.063Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:04:07.996Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/129/list-view"}
{"id":128,"title":"Secure votings with our new invitation features","description":"With the »Invitation Required« feature, you can ensure that only invited people can vote and access your PollUnits.","post_text":"With the »Invitation Required« feature, you can ensure that only Invitees can vote and access your PollUnits. Our update today extends this feature as follows:\r\n\r\nIf a person is invited, they will receive an email with a one-time link. If this one-time link is used, it cannot be used by other participants.\r\n\r\nPreviously, only people with PollUnit accounts could be invited or invited people had to register before they could participate. Now a registration is no longer necessary and it is now possible to limit the participation also to invited persons without a PollUnit account.\r\n\r\nYou can decide if an invitation is required only for voting or also for access. If you activate »Allow access with invitation only« only invited persons are allowed to see the PollUnit. If this option is deactivated, all people can see the PollUnit, but only invited people can vote.\r\n\r\nIn the invite dialog you can invite the participants by email. PollUnit will then automatically send a unique link per email address. It is now possible to write your own invitation text for the invitees.\r\n\r\nYou can also generate your own one-time links and share them e.g. via email or send them via WhatsApp, Threema, Signal etc. and make sure that everyone can \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/prevent_multiple_participation\"\u003evote only once\u003c/a\u003e.\r\n\r\nIf you are new to our \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en\"\u003eonline voting tool\u003c/a\u003e why not starting with our tutorial \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/create_your_first_poll\"\u003ecreate your first poll\u003c/a\u003e.","created_at":"2021-01-14T10:28:33.612Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:04:05.575Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/128/secure-votings-with-our-new-invitation-features"}
{"id":127,"title":"Adding a security layer for sharing admin rights","description":"Protect yourself against accidental sharing of your admin link. Creators with an account can now enable and disable admin links of their PollUnits.","post_text":"When you \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/voting\"\u003emake your own voting poll\u003c/a\u003e, two random links are generated. A public participation link for the voters and an additional link for admins. Depending on the link the visitors get different rights. Without knowing the exact address, the PollUnits cannot be accessed by third parties. So even without a PollUnit account polls can be created and administrated together.\r\n\r\nIf you create a PollUnit with an account, the admin link is only accessible for you and members of \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/de/tutorials/organization\"\u003eyour organization\u003c/a\u003e. If you want to share admin rights with other users, you have to activate the admin link for others. This new security setting is only possible with a PollUnit account.\r\n\r\nYou can find the new setting directly in your PollUnit in the »Admin link« tab. With a click on »Make admin link accessible for others« you activate or deactivate the public admin link.\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003eAlso our free accounts benefit from this renewal.\u003c/i\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003eIf you are new to PollUnit learn more about our \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en\"\u003eonline voting tool\u003c/a\u003e or check out our beginners tutorial »\u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/create_your_first_poll\"\u003ecreate a poll\u003c/a\u003e«.\u003c/i\u003e","created_at":"2021-01-02T12:49:56.259Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:04:02.935Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/127/activate-or-deactivate-admin-links"}
{"id":126,"title":"A new invitation workflow for our poll maker","description":"Configure \u003e Check \u003e Invite: The new improved workflow which makes creating your PollUnits more comfortable.","post_text":"Right from the start, you were guided through five simple steps when using our \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en\"\u003epoll website\u003c/a\u003e to create your votings. From the basic settings, to the content of your poll, the design, advanced settings and last but not least the invitation to your PollUnit. That changes now!\r\n\r\nThe last step »Invite« is removed. Instead you will be directed to your PollUnit. Here you can see what you have created and may make changes. The functions from the »Invite« step are now directly accessible in your PollUnit. We have also simplified switching between admin- and participant view. The workflow is now: Configure \u003e Check \u003e Invite. We think that feels really good - but we are always happy about feedback!\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003e At this point, we would also like to thank you for all the feedback, which has led us to make this change.\u003c/i\u003e\r\n\r\nThe workflow changes for all our PollUnit types. \r\n\r\nStay healthy!\r\nYour PollUnit Team","created_at":"2020-11-27T00:07:36.608Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:03:59.307Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/126/new-invite-workflow"}
{"id":125,"title":"Improved security and productivity with Single-Sign-On (SSO)","description":"SSO allows your users to authenticate to PollUnit through your company's existing identity providers.","post_text":"Single-Sign-On allows your users to authenticate themselves to PollUnit using the existing identity providers of your company. This means that your users only have to register once in the company network and can then use the services of PollUnit without a new user name and password.\r\n\r\nThe saved login time and reduced administrative effort increases productivity and usability for your employees. Since your employees do not have to create, update or reset any additional passwords, the SSO procedure also increases security and reduces the workload of your IT department.\r\n\r\nAs an Enterprise customer, you can now register one Single-Sign-On-Provider per \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/organization\"\u003ePollUnit organization\u003c/a\u003e.","created_at":"2020-10-24T20:15:07.313Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:03:56.849Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/125/single-sign-on-sso"}
{"id":124,"title":"Video contests now also available with Vimeo content","description":"Now you and your participants can also add Vimeo videos to your PollUnit video contests and vote for them.","post_text":"After we released our \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/lab\"\u003eYouTube video contests\u003c/a\u003e as a public beta version about 4 weeks ago, we now have the first update. You can now also add videos from the video portal \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVimeo\u003c/a\u003e.\r\n\r\nVimeo is a platform where anyone can upload their own videos via a free account. PollUnit now allows you to combine these videos into a video contest and vote on the content. The usual PollUnit evaluation methods are available to you. Besides Vimeo videos, YouTube videos can also be added.","created_at":"2020-10-22T20:49:25.995Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:03:54.269Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/124/vimeo-video-contests"}
{"id":122,"title":"Now in public beta: YouTube contests and music contests","description":"We open our laboratory and release two new experimental PollUnit types. With YouTube and music contests you can now also upload and vote on video and audio data.","post_text":"We have two brand new PollUnit types for you. Furthermore, there is now the \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/lab\"\u003ePollUnit Lab\u003c/a\u003e - a place for experiments, fulfilled user wishes and ideas of our developers. All functions in the lab are released as public beta versions. That means they are 100% functional but haven't been used extensively and we are especially missing user feedback. So try it out and give feedback.\r\n\r\nBut now to the new functions...\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eYouTube contests\u003c/strong\u003e allow you to create polls for different YouTube videos. Your participants can post their links and you or your jury can vote for them.\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eMusic contests\u003c/strong\u003e allow you to create playlists, upload MP3s, listen to and rate them. Not only suitable for contests, but also for bands that want to share their playlists with fans.\r\n\r\nBoth PollUnit types use most of our standard PollUnit functions. So you can change the voting type, define deadlines, comment, restrict access etc.\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003eYou are missing a function that would fit well to PollUnit? Asking costs nothing! At \u003ca href=\"mailto:support@pollunit.com\"\u003esupport@pollunit.com\u003c/a\u003e or in the \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/forum/feature-requests-board\"\u003eforum\u003c/a\u003e we might be able to help you.\u003c/i\u003e","created_at":"2020-09-12T17:00:18.527Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:03:49.661Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/122/youtube-and-music-contests"}
{"id":123,"title":"Increase the conversion rate with social media tags","description":"Take control of how social networks and messaging services like WhatsApp display your photo contests and polls!","post_text":"Using meta tags like Facebook's Open Graph tags, we have some control over how information is transferred from PollUnit to Facebook and other social services. This allows the social networks to automatically create a post for their news feed.\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003eNow you can take control of how social networks display your PollUnit! You only need to define a title, description and preview image to present your PollUnit in the best possible way on social networks.\u003c/i\u003e\r\n\r\nEven if you don't want to publish your PollUnit in a Facebook or Twitter post, it makes sense to use the social media tags. For example, if one of your participants shares your \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/photo-contest\"\u003ephoto contest\u003c/a\u003e on Facebook or sends the link to friends via WhatsApp or Slack, the social media tags are automatically read out and a preview is created. This preview is then displayed in the newsfeed or in the messanger. \r\n\r\nWith the right targeting and optimized preview image, you can achieve a greater reach. In the best case, this will lead to your PollUnit being shared widely and lead to more participants. So this is a measure that aims to increase the conversion rate.","created_at":"2020-09-13T21:07:32.574Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:03:51.961Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/123/social-media-tags"}
{"id":121,"title":"Automate your voting and submission periods","description":"Plan the submission and voting period for your polls and photo contests in advance. PollUnit automates the changes between the phases, even if you are not available.","post_text":"Controlling you \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/voting\"\u003evotings\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/photo-contest\"\u003erunning photo contests\u003c/a\u003e is getting more easy.\r\n\r\nOur deadline function has been updated! Now it is also possible not only to set an expiration date for the voting, but to automate the whole submission and voting process. Determine when your participants can submit photos or ideas, when the submission phase ends, when voting starts and ends.\r\n\r\nParticipants who create an account are informed about status changes and reminded to participate in the different phases.\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003eSo sit back, enjoy a coffee and watch your photo contest or voting develop fully automated in its phases.\u003c/i\u003e","created_at":"2020-09-12T14:51:38.159Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:03:46.868Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/121/voting-and-photo-contest-automation"}
{"id":120,"title":"Range voting: Rate options or images with numbers","description":"Out now: With PollUnit you create range votings and allow to rate options and images with points from a given interval.","post_text":"\u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/range_voting\"\u003eScore voting\u003c/a\u003e (Range voting, Rated Voting) is a particularly general and expressive method of voting. It is a voting procedure in which options and pictures are rated with points from a given interval. The voters can rate each option independently of the others.\r\n\r\nA particularly widespread and easy-to-understand voting method is the star rating. Large marketplaces like Amazon and Co. rely on the form in which voters have the opportunity to rate products with stars. Especially popular are the 5-star ratings. If you decide on a star rating at PollUnit, you can determine how many stars, but not more than 10, your participants may vote from.\r\n\r\nIf a scale from 1 to 10 is not enough, there is now also the possibility to create scales from 0 to 100 with the new range voting. As creator you can determine the start and end of the scale. For example, you can allow voters to rate options and photos between 0 and 20 or between 7 and 50.\r\n\r\nThe voting is done with the help of a slider. Your users can move a small handle to the left and right on the scale you have created and choose a number.","created_at":"2020-08-07T10:53:04.339Z","updated_at":"2025-01-30T12:03:43.594Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/120/voting-between-numbers"}