Saturday Sep 01, 2012

Introducing MapYourVote Rewards!

MapYourVote Rewards MapYourVote Rewards is a brand new feature that allows users to win prizes and rewards. Here’s how it works. As you do things throughout MapYourVote, you will begin to earn and collect Reward Points. The more points you earn the more likely you will win a Reward Prize, because each point counts as an entry to a raffle. MapYourVote will hold raffles more and more as we grow. Prizes can be anything, but will often be gift cards to online stores like Amazon.com.

So how do you collect reward points? Well that’s a good question and it’s quite easy. Reward points are collected as you perform various actions throughout MapYourVote. Here is a list of the ways you can earn reward points.


By Voting – Earn a Reward point for every 5 votes you cast.

By Commenting – Earn a Reward point for every 3 comments you make.

By Asking – Earn a Reward point for every 2 questions you ask.

By Having High Vote Power – Earn a Reward point for voting at elast once and having 100% Vote Power

By Being Socially Connected – Earn Reward points for being connected to Facebook and publishing your activity.

By Referring People – Earn a point for every Referral you make. You can make referrals by sending your referral links to people and having them sign up.



So do these points last forever? Not quite. Points will expire after 30 days or if you win a prize so you should always strive to continue earning points to increase your chances of being chosen in the raffle and winning the reward contest.

MapYourVote Rewards page also shows where you stand next to other users. You can view the Leader Board to see all the top scoring users in the community.

1000s of people are already having fun with MapYourVote, but the gamification of the site through MapYourVote Rewards makes it even more enjoyable!

Posted at 10:42AM Sep 01, 2012 by MYV in Status  |  Comments[0]

MapYourVote Fun Polls and Quizzes

Some online polls and questions on MapYourVote are serious, centered on people, politics, world issues, and the economy. Though these are important, sometimes, when you feel like relaxing, they aren't the types of polls you want to vote on. Not to worry however, MapYourVote isn’t all serious. When you feel like smiling, laughing, or simply being entertained, take a look at the hundreds of Fun polls the MapYourVote community has asked. Fun polls are often about music, videos, and funny pictures, but with a community as creative as MapYourVote, you will often stumble on a fun poll that completely surprises you. We've all taken surveys and quizzes that are fun, and MapYourVote lets you find these with ease.  Asking questions can be fun as well so if you are the creative type, create your own fun poll. So kickback, relax, and smile at MapYourVote Fun Polls.

Posted at 09:55AM Sep 01, 2012 by MYV in General  |  Comments[1]

Monday Jun 11, 2012

Introducing Poll & Vote Activity Emails!

We’ve just implemented a new feature allowing you to receive emails about MapYourVote activity! This can be anything from when someone rates or favorites your poll, votes in it, or if someone replies to one of your comments. All these alerts are called Votifications and by default they appear in your inbox located at the top right hand corner of MapYourVote. But as we all know, life can get busy and sometimes it’s hard to check these on a regular basis. To make it easy for you, after any one of your unread Votifications becomes a week old, we will email the whole list for you to see! If you want to see these emails show up more or less frequently, you can! Simply navigate to your Votification Settings in your profile and you can customize it to your liking!

Posted at 07:48PM Jun 11, 2012 by MYV in Status  |  Comments[0]

Friday May 25, 2012

New Votifications!

We've added some new Votifications to keep you in the loop!  You will now receive votifications in your inbox when your poll is rated high or Favorited.  Know exactly how people feel about your polls at all times.  Remember you can always change what votifications you receive via the Votification Settings tab in your profile.  

Posted at 12:13PM May 25, 2012 by MYV in Status  |  Comments[0]

Friday May 11, 2012

Flash-less MapYourVote

Flash-less MapYourVote! We are proud to announce you can now Put Your Vote on the Map without Adobe Flash!

For the past few weeks we’ve worked hard to implement a new version of MapYourVote which uses newer HTML 5 technology. Now enjoy MapYourVote in more places and in more ways, on mobile and non-mogbile devices of any sort!















Posted at 02:27PM May 11, 2012 by MYV in New Features  |  Comments[0]

Thursday May 10, 2012

Voting on MapYourVote in Other Languages

You may have though of MapYourVote as a website only for English speaking voters!  Not true!  Thanks to Google Translate MapYourVote can be easily translated into hundreds of different languages at the click of a button.  To do this, scroll to the bottom of the page and locate the footer.  On the left side of the footer you will see the Google Translate logo and a drop box.  Using the drop box, simply select your language of choice and the entire page will be translated.  Now vote in your favorite language!  It's that easy!

Posted at 08:28AM May 10, 2012 by MYV in Status  |  Comments[1]

Sunday Apr 01, 2012

Introducing Votifications - Keeping You In the Loop!

Votifications are essentially Notifications about things that happen on  MapYourVote. Votifications are a brand new feature in MapYourVote that let you know when something cool happens on the site that we think you will want to know. This can be anything from someone comments or votes on your poll to summaries of results when your poll closes. You can choose what Votifications you want to receive in your profile under the “Votifications” tab.  Some votifications are not implemented yet, but your settings will not change. In addition to receiving these notifications in your votification inbox (located in the top right hand corner of the site), you can also choose to have them emailed. Emails will typically be sent at the end of the day or week, and would include all your votifications at once so you can easily see what’s happened. Please let us know if you have any general suggestions for improving the Votification system or ideas for new votifications! 

Posted at 09:56AM Apr 01, 2012 by MYV in Status  |  Comments[1]

Sunday Mar 18, 2012

Announcing the official launch of MapYourVote.com

Today we announce the official launch of MapYourVote! As some of you know, it’s been a long road here. The idea itself is almost four years old and I remember the origin very well. I was having a causal conversation with my father over the phone when he mentioned, “it would be cool to see how people actually felt across the globe”. I paused ... and said yes, it would. Like all great ideas, it evolved, and four years later, MapYourVote has become the world’s first Social Voteworking web site.

We’ve come a long way since the origin of free speech and free thought. We’ve come a long way since the forums of Ancient Greece, the birth place of democracy. But even in today’s advance data driven society, where information flows with incredible speed, there is something missing. The forums have not been updated, and real opinions drown in the vast oceans of data.

MapYourVote can end this. MapYourVote can be the new forum, allowing ideas and true opinions to flow with unprecedented effectiveness. MapYourVote can help us answer the questions, both big and small.

So my father and I have a favor to ask. Help us continue to evolve MapYourVote. Help us spread the word that a new forum is in town. Tell your friends, your family, their friends and their family. Share polls on Facebook, Digg, Google Plus and Twitter. Help us grow MapYourVote into the site that it can be. After all, It’s Your Vote. Your World.

www.MapYourVote.com

Happy Voting!

Posted at 04:48PM Mar 18, 2012 by MYV in General  |  Comments[0]

Friday Mar 02, 2012

Vote Power – the more you give, the more you get

What is this “Vote power” thing anyway?  Vote Power is a way to measure how much influence your vote has in the MapYourVote (TM) community when filters are applied.  Filters in MapYourVote ™ are a way to narrow results down to a desired demographic of interest.  For example, I may want to look at the results based on Gender, Age, or other voter characteristic.  When a filter is applied, if you haven’t provided the type of information associated with the filter, your vote will be automatically dropped from the results.  So “Vote Power” goes up the more information you provide, because it becomes more likely that your vote won’t be automatically dropped.  With a high “Vote Power”, your vote is always considered.

In addition to preventing your vote from being automatically dropped when filters are applied, “Vote Power” also provides you the ability to apply your own filters.  In MapYourVote ™ you are only able to filter by types of information you yourself have provided.  So, as your “Vote Power” increases you can apply more and more kinds of filters.

Posted at 01:23PM Mar 02, 2012 by MYV in Status  |  Comments[4]

Thursday Feb 09, 2012

Why My Email Address?

To create a MapYourVote ™ account we ask you provide your real email address.  Upon creating account, you then have to confirm this is actually you.  Handing your email address out can be unnerving but we do this to defend “Your Vote. Your World” and discourage fake users from voting multiple times.  In addition, your email is occasionally used to contact you about important MapYourVote (TM) activity, like, for example, when your polls are approved or when voting closes. MapYourVote (TM) works extremely hard to protect this information because your privacy is very important to us.

Posted at 05:39PM Feb 09, 2012 by MYV in General  |  Comments[0]

Polls That Cycle every Day

The idea for MapYourVote(TM)  stemmed from the idea, wouldn't it be wonderful if you could find out how people were feeling around the world on any given day. MapYourVote(TM) provide the ability to develop an electronic POLL/Question and ask it to the world and set that questions so the results are only counted for the day Midnight To Midnight. People may find out how others feel that day whether they are sick or how energetic they are. The wellness of the people can be polled with these type of polls and provides interesting information on our neighbors all the people of the world. Electronic Polls may also be set for a periods of time of more than one day collecting information or current events and then in time pale in importance but are very important for a week or a month for example. Questions regarding Sports and big events such as the Superbowl, elections, A big auto Race and who do you think will win provide fun information about how people think around the world. Soccer is an excellent example for tracking world opinion in the sport of soccer around the world as all countries compete for entry into the world cup. and the Europe cup and even local country soccer for where ever they live.

Posted at 05:19PM Feb 09, 2012 by MYV in Status  |  Comments[0]

MapYourVote A cool Idea with a Purpose

Welcom to MapYourVote(TM) and the world of asking and answering questions for and from around the world. Our site is designed to provide a hassle free place to peruse questions asked by others and answer the ones you like and then find out how other people thing about the issue whatever it is. Issues may vary from the complex world of politics, to the personal areas of beliefs and religion. Other issues are less complex such as opinions on Sports Teams, Sport Players, Games and the fans or what kind of TV you watch and why or even very basic polls on emotions Such as Are you sick this week, how well you feel or how happy you are today. MapYourVote(TM) strives to allow users to browse this vast world of peoples opinions and vote on any poll expressing their opinions and then forming a collective geographically referenced map of the people and their opinions around the world.

Posted at 05:08PM Feb 09, 2012 by MYV in General  |  Comments[0]

Saturday Feb 04, 2012

Introducing MapYourVote Facebook Connect!

We've just introduced Facebook Connect to MapYourVote!  This will allow you to link your facebook account with your voting MapYourVote account. This link means you don't need to remember yet another username and password, and you are able to login with a single click.  In addition, the Facebook link lets you publish your MapYourVote activity to your Facebook timeline.  By default, only asking activity is published but you also have the option of sharing votes and comments to Facebook.  Not only does this get your friends voting on the questions you care about, but it also helps grow the MapYourVote voting community making MapYourVote even more fun.  By Facebook (facebook.com website) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Posted at 02:44PM Feb 04, 2012 by MYV in General  |  Comments[0]

Introducing the MapYourVote Blog

As you can see, we have just introduced the new MapYourVote blog!  MapYourVote and it's community is constantly evolving.  This blog will help document that evolution, keep you up to date with the latest and greatest features, and help everyone find out whats new with the voting MapYourVote Community.

Posted at 02:12PM Feb 04, 2012 by MYV in New Features  |  Comments[0]