How much growth to expect in the Indian Economy
This started out as an experiment, but the end result was both interesting and exciting. The social network site Linkedin has a feature called polls. I was thinking of experimenting with it and see what it yields. Finally, I did put up a poll on Sunday and forwarded it to my contacts.
The speed of response surprised me. However, the more interesting part is the kind of insights Linkedin gives using its data. The value proposition is also very strong for all participants because what is available to the originator of the poll is also available to everyone else who participates.
All this is free!
I put this up on Sunday, 19th April, and I have already received 119 responses. 14 of them also took the trouble of putting in their views as comments.
See the write up here
The poll results are provided with various cuts on the respondents (job title, company size, job function, gender and age). This implies that should one be able to actually get large samples to respond a very rich analytics is also available. What’s more all this is available to every participant on the poll.
For instance, in the above poll, the responses were fairly evenly spread across 4 options, but when you look at the same information through the age prism, clearly the younger people are more optimistic.
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This is a pretty handy tool and offers several possibilities if handled carefully. You could try this out.
And, you could participate in the above poll by clicking on http://polls.linkedin.com/poll-results/33591/nsaiy
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