{"id":4540,"date":"2010-04-21T17:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T00:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2010-04-21T17:09:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T00:09:03","slug":"alternatives-to-google-moderator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/21\/alternatives-to-google-moderator\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to Google Moderator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago I posted a query on twitter:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sleslie\/status\/12600769749\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sleslie\/status\/12600769749\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/3706688_5ecc_625x625-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/moderator\/\">Google Moderator<\/a>, it is a fantastic system that you can use to gather and vote on questions before (or during) a meeting or class. Unfortunately, using this US-based app for an upcoming meeting will likely land me in crap, so I set out trying to find alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>There are definitely a number of similarly hosted alternatives; <a href=\"http:\/\/uservoice.com\/\">Uservoice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/getsatisfaction.com\/\">GetSatisfaction<\/a>, while not identical, can facilitate this sort of thing, as could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideascale.com\/\">Ideascale<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/yousuggest.us\/\">YouSuggest<\/a>. Problem is, they run afoul of the same set of alleged privacy bugaboos that means I can&#8217;t use Google Moderator (and frankly none of them are quite so sweet as it). (N.B. I say &#8220;alleged&#8221; because the irony is that the meeting I want to elicit questions for is precisely on this question of BC institutions abilities to use 3rd PArty US-based software!)<\/p>\n<p>So I kept looking for Open Source or at least locally-hostable options and found the following ones too:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Question2Answer &#8211; http:\/\/question2answer.org\/<\/li>\n<li>OSQA &#8211; http:\/\/www.osqa.net\/<\/li>\n<li>Stacked &#8211; http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/stacked\/ an Open Source clone of the <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/\">Stack  Overflow<\/a> site)<\/li>\n<li>Idea Torrent &#8211; http:\/\/www.ideatorrent.org\/<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/questions\/chooser.php\">Berkman&#8217;s Live Question Tool<\/a> (which, while <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/node\/3400\">allegedly Open Sourced<\/a>, does <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/questionanswer\/\">not appear to have source code available<\/a>, too bad)<\/li>\n<li>Backchan.nl from MIT &#8211; https:\/\/launchpad.net\/backchan.nl (again, promising, but <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/backchan.nl\/trunk\">where&#8217;s the code?<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of these are perfect replacements for what Google Moderator does &#8211; the ones focused on customer feedback\/software development tend to be overly busy and not clearly dedicated to the issue of crowdsourcing questions to be answered live during a meeting\/class. So I will keep looking. But I thought I would share what I found in case it was helpful. If you know of a good alternative please let me know! &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago I posted a query on twitter: If you haven&#8217;t seen Google Moderator, it is a fantastic system that you can use to gather and vote on questions before (or during) a meeting or class. Unfortunately, using this US-based app for an upcoming meeting will likely land me in crap, so I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/21\/alternatives-to-google-moderator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alternatives to Google Moderator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29,86,157,337,341],"class_list":["post-4540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest","tag-backchannel","tag-crowdsourcing","tag-google","tag-privacy","tag-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}