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Psst! Want to See Who People Are Voting For?
One of the things you can do to help support your favorite project proposals is to share your "slate" with other Net2 blog readers, your blog readers and with friends and colleagues via email. Your recommendations will support your favorite project, potentially point votes towards projects that have been overlooked, and help voters to sort through the 150+ proposals.
You can see who some members of the Net2 community are voting for by reading the "slates" they have posted on the NetSquared blog.
If you've never posted on the NetSquared blog before, here are some instructions. Please tag your blog post, "slate" and "net2".
Photo Credit: Casting My Ballot by Chris Phan.
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Thanks for all the comments
Thanks for reporting the problems and for telling us what you think of the process. We've put up a Frequently Asked Questions page to try and get at our answers to some of these.
If you have more tough love for us, feel free to put it on this blog post: Give It To Us Straight.
Marnie Webb
Net2 team
BIG? Problems with voting??
Britt, not sure this is the right place for this --but many of my voters are having big problems with voting, actually the registration - long delays getting the needed confirmation email -- are you hearing complaints on this? drop me an email
igibbs at mac.com
Problems voting
Britt Bravo
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Any official word on voting irregularities?
Wow problems are much worse today -- any word from N2 -- what should we tell people? Observation it seems to work for me on Firefox -maybe it's a IE thing--surprise??
Also having problems with voting
I would like to echo this sentiment as well. Many of our supporters have reported problems with voting as well, including delays on receiving the confirmation email. The process itself also seems excessively complicated, a number of people have told me that they found the instructions are quite long and confusing. Problems have been especially bad for non-native english speakers and the non-computer savvy.
I know it's probably too late to do much about this, but I just wanted to echo the sentiments voiced above. Thanks for listening!
VOTING and blog spam.
I'm with you. We've had problems with about 75% of folks that attempt to vote. We're spending time on the phone fielding complaints instead of doing what we need to help make our organization better. Further, you have comment SPAM on this blog -- a
"Free Playboy" appeal below -- in an important place for educating your member base. Use technology well if you are going to be proponents of it.
apologies again + no more playboy here
Chip,
As we've mentioned, we've received a much larger response from the community than we expected, and are busy working on fixing the voting tool issue. Please be patient with us as we build a solution, and trust that we will make sure your supporters have a way of endorsing your work with us that is as easy and fair for all projects as is possible.
Stay tuned to Britt's blog http://www.netsquared.org/blog/britt-bravo for real-time updates.
Thanks again for your continued support and patience.
Voter Circus: Thanks 2 Family, Friends & Folks We Drink With
Welly, well, well. I've just been "kindly taunted" by yet ANOTHER neighbor about this painful voting process. After fielding a plethora of voting complaints all week, most of my voters said they chose my proposal, and then quickly chose 4 random organizations "just to be done with it". I'm curious if the majority of the winners will be in the top most accessible part of the drop down lists. Hmmm....Well, at least they're ALL good causes.
I'd be more confident about the status of my proposal if a panel of judges involved with non-profits were selecting the winners, not our family, co-workers, and people we get drunk with. Why not call this competition "Hurrah for Everyone"? Relying on the votes of people who want to see us happy (or those who owe us favors) voids the point of why we're all here, turning this into a very painful popularity contest.
"Newbies" to the non-profit world are especially at a huge disadvantage in this competition. Those who have established groups of peers in other non-profits are going to do far better with voter turnout. As an annoyed voter friend of mine said this week "...who the hell has time for this? - Other people who work in non-profits!! THAT'S WHO!!!".
If you must let friends and family choose winners rather than a panel of informed, experienced judges who live, eat, and drink "non-profit" on a daily basis:
1. Have voters submit an email address and not require a log in process.
2. Make the ballot link easily to find.
3. Let voters choose "up to" 5 or so organizations, and not a mandatory minimum of 5.
4. Cap the limit of entries. 150 is too many. It would've been hard enough to choose 5 out of 20.
The winner turnout will be interesting, that's for sure. In the meantime, it's friday and I owe a lot of people a lot of drinks.
My Response
I am in total agreement to your comments and views. I also had sent a similar blog, since I also received very similar comments, specially:
"Newbies" to the non-profit world are especially at a huge disadvantage in this competition. Those who have established groups of peers in other non-profits are going to do far better with voter turnout. As an annoyed voter friend of mine said this week "...who the hell has time for this? - Other people who work in non-profits!! THAT'S WHO!!!".
I do want to add though that on the positive side, this has given us a platform to promote awareness of the causes/subjects that we are involved in. As well, hopefully, the exposure will produce positive results, such as sponsorships, generous donors, funders, new ideas, and of course, hopefully, the governments will catch up, and try and implement changes in the laws so that these people are recognized, and the organizations that are trying to assist these unfortunate people, will be provided with the appropriate funding and resources. I am hopeful that the outcome will be good for all of us participants, and a learning lesson for all of us that are involved. Solutions arise from problems which equates to progress.
What a learning journey and experience for all of us!!! Thank You.
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