The “OC Register” put up a poll on its blog last Friday asking the question, “Why Would You Read a Housing Blog?”
Interesting question. Here are the current results:
I don’t know what this really means, if anything. But it’s interesting, and more importantly it did motivate me to get off my duff and find a good poll plug-in for WordPress. I like to play around with plug-ins, and I’ve always thought polls might be an interesting thing to have on the blog (though some polls can be rather annoying).
So I’ve installed the “Democracy” plug-in, let’s give it a whirl…
So how about humoring me and voting? Not really so I can gather anything as to why people read this blog. I need votes so I can tweak how the results are displayed. (I had to do a little CSS work to get the options to display right, now I need results to work with.)
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Hat tip to Loren at The Future of Real Estate Technology for the OC Register story
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Christoph Schweiger 03.21.07 at 12:02 am
Jay, this plug-in is really cool. I wished I would have known about it before i posted my “Blog Identity Crisis” entry on Active Rain. Thanks for sharing!
Rebecca 03.22.07 at 12:46 am
The plug-in has a really clean stylish look to it.
Jon Cooper 03.22.07 at 10:28 am
I agree, it looks very nice. Can you change the results to display the percentage and when you “hover” it displays the actual number?(opposite of how it is now).
Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy 03.23.07 at 1:22 am
529 unique visitors since this poll was posted and 25 of ya voted!
Oh well, that’s a better voter turnout than in some local level elections….
It’s a very slick plug-in. Setting up the polls is a snap. And Jon, I believe you can tweak the % vs. Actual display. Just have to find the right place in the style sheet to do that. I like that idea.