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content_type.label.conversation Two great examples of using press releases for survey outreach

We love these press releases from Eden Prairie, MN, and Redlands, CA. What a great way to get the word out about your survey! Check out our press release template here. Share your city’s Polco press releases below! @olaskey @Taylor.Wolfe @Joe Carey @Al Roder @Brent Stockwell @Diann Kirby @Evan Miche...

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content_type.label.conversation Sharing poll and survey results with your residents

We love this example of how the Wisconsin Newspaper Association shared the results of their recent poll about vaccine mandates in schools. By sharing outcomes on local media outlets, residents who voted in the poll can see how other residents felt and how this may impact decisions of local leadersh...

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content_type.label.conversation Using Twitter to tell residents about your survey

We love this great example of how Athens-Clarke County used Twitter to tell residents about their Community Survey. Great job @Alice Hayes and Athens-Clarke County team! Anyone else have examples of how they’ve used Twitter to get the word out? @Jordan VanLoo @Brent Stockwell @Kimberly Humphrey @M...

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Article Understanding Changes to Race and Ethnicity Questions on Polco

There are a variety of opinions in the world of survey research about the best ways to ask respondents about race and ethnicity. It is important to Polco that individuals who identify as multiracial feel fully represented. We also wanted to ensure that Polco admins were able to see their results in...

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Article Outreach: Building and Engaging Your Feedback Team

In a perfect world, every public engagement effort would include every resident of your community. But in practice, time, resource and monetary costs would make pulling off such a Herculean feat largely impossible for even the most advantaged jurisdictions. For this reason, survey scientists will us...

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Article Understanding your Subscriber Dashboard

The Dashboard helps you understand your subscribers on Polco - these are the respondents who will see your public content in their feeds and weekly emails. You can grow your subscriber base on Polco by posting content and doing outreach. When you have a large subscriber base, it makes it easier to...

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Article Using the Participants Tab to Target Your Outreach

The “participants” tab for any of your surveys helps you understand your respondents. When you know who is responding to your surveys, you can target your outreach efforts in order to ensure that your survey gets to as many people as possible and a representative sample of your community. In order...

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Quick question does Polco have a QR code option for surveys?

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Next steps after Community Equity and Inclusion survey

Many municipalities used our Community Equity and Inclusion (CEI) survey to gather feedback from their residents. What steps are you planning to take after your initial CEI survey?

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Order of poll questions

Can I determine the order that respondents will see polls in a poll set? For example, say that I created five polls (questions) in a poll set. Will respondents see them in a random order (different for every respondent) or can I set the order so respondents see the questions in a certain order?

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