Mo’ Contest
| Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 | --Sean |
A little while back, we acquired Bix, which is a site for generating contests that can be used to gauge public opinion about just about anything you want. One such example is the ongoing Favorite Liam Contest, where you can pick your favorite animated Liam from Yahoo! Mail.
What really interested me from the blog post about this contest was not the contest itself (though, you know, it's obviously a brilliant idea), but the fact that you can embed a functional Bix voting widget into your website (see link for an example). The widget allows you to make votes, to see how your votes stack up against public opinion, and to keep track of which entries are your current frontrunners. If you're hosting a contest that especially relates to some site you own, it's nice to be able to frame it within that site so your users don't need to jump away and can keep whatever context you want to present to them. I'm not sure if the option is available only after you've created a contest (I didn't see it when I first visited the site), but if that's not the case, you should be able to get the embed code from any contest page by clicking the "Put on website" link in the contest description beneath the voting module.