Categorized as: Election Tips, Product Development
By default, candidate names display in a 2-column layout. This is good as it helps reduce the amount of scrolling a voter must do in order to view the candidates and also presents more candidate names in a single screen view. But election managers may override that default setting and display candidate names stacked vertically […]
Categorized as: Product Development
Consider this. An individual working at an association is in charge of managing an election. That individual favors candidate A instead of candidate B. The individual checks the live election results while the election is underway and sees that candidate A needs a few more votes to win. The election manager informs candidate A of […]
Categorized as: Increase Voter Turnout, Product Development
Strong member engagement = higher voter participation. Leveraging the communities your organization has developed on LinkedIn, Facebook, or elsewhere, can be a great way to increase awareness of, and participation in, your next election. But Higher Logic, with its integration with ElectionsOnline, can be an especially useful tool to drive increased voter participation. An Example […]
Categorized as: Election Tips, Product Development
For years, ElectionsOnline has supported the ability to assign voters to either a voter group and/or a special interest group (SIG) as a way of displaying a certain set of positions to some voters, while other voters see different positions. Depending on the criteria used to place voters into different groups, that could result in […]
Categorized as: Company News, Product Development
netFORUM, the very popular Association Management System from Abila, plays quite nicely with the Skypunch online voting service thanks to an integration from Dovelox. Dovelox, the fast-growing integration specialization company founded by former Avectra (now Abila) employees, has introduced to the market a productized solution ready to deploy for any association using netFORUM. Productized means they […]
Categorized as: Product Development
Election managers may do one of the following to permit candidates to submit their biographies into the system. This article examines the pros and cons of each method. For starters, the following chart gives an idea as to what can, and cannot, be done with each option. Free-text Form-based Impose a character limit on candidate […]
Categorized as: Product Development
Each election now has a checklist associated with it intended to: Completing the checklist is not mandatory and has no impact on the election whatsoever. It’s just an aid to make sure the most important steps in managing an election don’t get overlooked. This does not replace the instruction manual In case that heading wasn’t […]
Categorized as: Company News, Product Development
Skypunch and Association Technology Solutions (ATS) have established a business partnership aimed at offering an integration bridge between the Skypunch online voting system and the iMIS association management system (AMS). Offered by Advanced Solutions International (ASI), iMIS is one of the association industry’s most well established and widely used association management systems. Now, any organization […]
Categorized as: Company News, Product Development
The underlying database that supports any web-based service may seem like a rather ho-hum topic to write about. Usually, I would agree. Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle. Yup, I’m yawning just typing those names. But when the database happens to be Aurora, I light up. This is an exciting new service offered by Amazon […]
Categorized as: Election Tips, Product Development
The Skypunch online voting system now supports the ability for voters to provide free-text comments with their ballot. While this has no impact on election results, it does permit an organization to glean deeper insight into the mood of its electorate and understand why they voted, how they voted. Comment fields, which are disabled by […]
