Pol.is based surveys

[polis] short code: https://pol.is/ on your page using. requires user to be logged in, and uses your user id for the survey

width: default 100%
height: default 600px
conversation_id: the conversation to display
site_id: your pol.is site id – displays a conversation based on the current page
ucw-perm: 1|0 – can write comments if has one of comma seperated perms (e.g. edit_posts,edit_pages)
ucw: 1|0 – can write comments
ucv: 1|0 – can vote
show_vis: 1|0 – show visualisation
ucsd: 1|0 – show description
ucsh: 1|0 – show help (default false)
ucsf: 1|0 – show footer (default false)

SPEAKER_00 (00:05 – 00:37): Surveys are an important part of volunteer management, or sorry, of community building. So I want to touch on two different ways of doing surveys. One is using surveys internally from CiviCRM, and the other way is using POLIS. So I want to show you how to use POLIS. So POLIS is a Open Source Project. It’s a really, really
SPEAKER_00 (00:37 – 01:22): cool way of doing, of collecting people’s opinions. So let me show you how that works. So we can create a new conversation. So… Looks cool, right? So we can configure a conversation, so like, whatever, you know, my listening So you can configure a few different things here, whether or not you need to approve… well, you’ll see. Okay, so we create that, and then a seed comment. Now, seed comment is like,
SPEAKER_00 (01:28 – 01:49): I find there is too much traffic in my neighbourhood. I don’t know if I can spell that correctly. Possibly not. I want more transparency in politics.
SPEAKER_00 (01:51 – 02:11): So you make a few statements like that, and then we’re going to distribute it. So this is the… you can see it here, actually. So if We’ll come back to this. So let me just sign out so that we don’t forget who we are.
SPEAKER_00 (02:13 – 02:33): Okay, see, so this is your conversation. I want more transfer. And you agree or disagree. Okay, so I’ve made a really easy way of putting these into your website. So there’s a plugin called…
SPEAKER_00 (02:35 – 02:50): What is it? Oh, it’s part of CIV, actually. So, which should be turned on by default. So you can add this as a post. It doesn’t… or anything, really. It doesn’t really matter where you put it.
SPEAKER_00 (02:52 – 03:07): But what we do is we add in a shortcode and I will put the documentation up in a second.
SPEAKER_00 (03:10 – 03:29): But basically what you need to do is add the shortcode like this. Polis and then either this code here or you can also share the site ID like this.
SPEAKER_00 (03:30 – 03:53): So we’re going to do the page ID equals this and you can say you can add comments or not. It’s true, but there’s a few different options. Whether or not to show the description, so we can hide and etc. So we’ll just leave it there for now. And publish it.
SPEAKER_00 (04:07 – 04:36): I have to read my own documentation. So it’s conversation ID. Okay. Okay. See, so now I find there’s too much traffic in my neighbourhood. Agree. I agree. But also, you’re asking everyone to… I want to…
SPEAKER_00 (04:38 – 04:54): I’m making stuff up. You create it and then the next person will be able to vote on that as well.
SPEAKER_00 (04:56 – 05:14): Obviously, you agree with that statement, so you’ve already voted that you find that important. So, straight off the bat, I think I’m pretty sure for this version you need to be logged in.
SPEAKER_00 (05:15 – 05:43): So I think if we were to be logged out, I’m pretty sure you must be logged in. We might change that in the future, but that means that we can track who who did it, and more importantly, not so much to track them, but to make sure that they don’t get the same questions over and over again if they use two different browsers.
SPEAKER_00 (05:46 – 06:19): Okay, and then back to Polis. I’m going to log in, and I don’t have a great example of a result here, but We can create a report and we can look at the report and the report will have… and if you just want to go straight to the raw data you can definitely do that, you can download
SPEAKER_00 (06:19 – 07:08): the raw data but you’ll have all of the questions and At the core of what Polis tries to do and what I think it achieves very well at is provide a way of doing a survey that does not force people to answer a very long and detailed questionnaire and it allows people to submit their own opinions and statements rather than forcing the survey maker to think of every imaginable question. Interestingly,
SPEAKER_00 (07:10 – 07:57): the number of questions that people respond to has been shown that people tend to answer more questions if they can stop whenever they want. Because getting one question answered is valuable, but they will We’ve run surveys where they’ll answer 20 or even 30 questions in one session. So that’s great. You can get more feedback and additionally you get more nuance to it because they can submit their own statements. And of course you can configure it so that you need to moderate it, but that’s great.
SPEAKER_00 (07:58 – 08:12): The final thing that’s really important about Polis is it’s not just about answering questions, it’s also about finding consensus between your group of people.
SPEAKER_00 (08:14 – 09:10): Consensus is not just… The survey is not just about finding a yes or a no, but I think the good example is in Taiwan, They have a project called The Taiwan, and they use this tool quite heavily. And I think there’s a video on the BBC which I’ll post, which talks about how they looked at the problem of electric scooters, or actually it wasn’t electric, it was Uber, whether they should allow Uber into Taiwan. And it wasn’t There was no clear yes or no answer, but this provided the nuance of, yes, we want it, but we need certain rules and certain restrictions, and how do we compensate,
SPEAKER_00 (09:10 – 09:30): and we need to compensate the existing taxi drivers. And this sort of nuance doesn’t necessarily come out. You require a very good survey writer to find that nuance in a survey. And I think I think this aspect of Polis is amazing.