Well, let's say you want an answer to a question like "what are the best blogs that every marketing executive should read?" You sign into wisia and you create a poll.
Then any other wisia community member can add their picks to the list of possible poll responses.
When the list gets to eight entries long, wisia opens the poll to voting. At that point, community members can vote for any of the suggested responses or continue to add their own choices to the list (at which point, those choices are also open to community voting.)
Finally, once a 'crowd' of 100 people has participated in the poll (either by voting or adding their choices to the list of responses), community members can view real-time results and see how their own votes are impacting the bottomline numbers.
At the end of the process, the most popular choices on the crowdsourced list should represent a best-of-the-best for whatever topic the poll aims to address.
It seems like an interesting way to harness the wisdom of crowds and since you're my crowd, I'd like to invite you to give it a whirl.
All you need to do is visit wisia.us, click the button for people who have invitation codes, then enter YOUR email address and MY invitation code: gregverdino.
I have 48 to give away, so hop on it if you're a private beta fiend.
Have fun and let me know what you think.
In the meantime, ladies, I notice that my name doesn't appear on the poll for "the hottest men that every woman should fantasize about."
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