This article covers:
What’s a Poll?
A poll is a simple survey tool that allows the poll creator to ask their audience a question and offer a choice between 2-6 single-select answers.
Why should I use a Poll?
Polls are used when you want to give your colleagues the chance to vote for something. They are an interactive way of involving your peers in decision making. Polls are anonymous: they only show the total number of responses, not individual responses.
Blink polls support imagery and/or text for maximum engagement and visual ease.
Poll use cases
Market research
Image polls help me conduct market research across my user base.
As a retail manager I want to understand what product is most popular with my colleagues to inform what I stock next.
Collaborative decision-making
An image poll engages my workforce to make a collaborative decision.
A bus company is updating their fleet of buses and have a few models under consideration.
Quizzes
An image poll is a fun way to quiz my workforce about new processes.
A logistics company has just updated their health and safety procedures and want to quiz their workforce on their understanding.
How it works
Creating a poll:
Any user can create a poll.
> On the Feed, Go to Share a post
> Choose your poll audience
> Select the Poll Category
> Use Header 1 to add your poll question: Where shall we go to lunch today?
> Add 2-6 options that your audience can pick from:
Your options must include an image / an image and caption / caption only
> Click Next and give your poll a Final Review
You can select the back arrow if it needs editing
> Share your poll
Viewing poll results
Anyone participating in the poll will be able to view the results as soon as they’ve voted. The results will update as more individuals vote.
As a poll creator, I can mark the poll as finished to close the voting:
FAQs
Who can create a poll? | Any user can create a poll by posting to the Poll Category (unless it’s been listed as a Restricted Category by the Organisation). |
Who can vote in polls? | Any member of the audience can vote in a poll, including the poll creator. |
How can I stop audience members from casting votes? | The poll creator can mark the poll as finished. Click the 3 dots against the poll and select Mark poll as finished. |
Are votes anonymous? | Yes. No one is able to see who voted for what. The results show the total number of votes and the percentage of votes against each answer. |
Can the audience see the results? | Yes. The audience will see the results as soon as they’ve cast their vote. The results will update alongside votes. |