Are you listening to your citizens?
Collect ideas from citizens, give them a platform to vote, the most important ideas bubble to the top.
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Let your loyal customers send you feedback when they’re most inspired. You’ll find answers to questions before you even thought to ask.
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Watch a community form around your brand as people start discussing and voting for ideas. You’ll begin to understand your customers.
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See the most valuable ideas rise to the top. You’ll solve problems and steer innovation knowing what your community really wants.
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IdeaScale easily handled the large volume of traffic coming from the WhiteHouse.gov website."
The most effective approach to building key relationships is to turn your citizens into advocates. Empower them to speak and open a direct dialogue# on your turf - instead of out in the wild.
Sorting through open ended text responses from comment boxes is inefficient--especially when only one person sees and sorts the responses. IdeaScale creates participatory, self-moderated communities.
Interact directly with the community that is formed around the ideas. Leave comments and communicate the status of an idea. Build a strong relationship with your citizens by confirming that their voice is heard.
By using the cloud, the government was able to launch IdeaScale months quicker than it would have been able to on its own."
Create completely private communities that only your employees can access (via Single Sign-on, email based access restrictions, or email invitations). More info...
Give your employees the option to participate anonymously so that candid ideas flow freely, without hesitation. More info...
IdeaScale complies with even the most stringent IT security levels: SAS70 security audits, SSL/TLS support, Single Sign-on, and even full Section 508 compliance are included right out of the box.
We went from concept to reality overnight, easily collecting volumes of ideas the very next morning."
IdeaScale gives you the option to augment both your idea submission form and also your user registration form with additional fields that you create such as demographic or departmental questions.
Each community you create includes support for mobile devices. All platforms, such as mobile optimzed web, iPhone, Android, and Blackberry are supported.
Each IdeaScale community member can build their own profile, earning incentives like points and badges as they participate in the community.
IdeaScale makes it easy for government agencies to engage with their customers - the public"
The city of Austin needed a system to collect ideas and feedback for a complate overhaul of the city's front facing technology services. IdeaScale was used to collect ideas from all over the city and engage a very large audience.
The FCC, ushering in a new area of collaboration, started by creating an IdeaScale community for its broadband initiative. Collecting ideas from all over the country, the FCC has been able to turn open ended text comments into highly structured feedback.
The Obama administration implemented IdeaScale as phase one of their new Open Government initiative. The community collected over 4,000 ideas and over 300,000 votes in just a two week time period.
