BTW, this is a Princeton University sociology research project that bubbled up when the Student Government needed to find out “what students wanted more” — this or that, from an ever growing list of thises and thatsss…

I love priority grids and formerly put Richard Bolles Priority Grid from “What Color Is My Parachute” at the top of my list. This interactive one, however, is way cool and now tops my list!

Here’s the link that describes Princeton’s project:http://www.allourideas.org/about

And here’s the link to our question, “What about Social Media Examiner’s Networking Clubs has helped you or your company the most?” (And yes, it could have been a little shorter if only I’d had more time, lol):

http://www.allourideas.org/socialmediaexaminerclubs

And remember, if you don’t like either of the two options, add your own idea to the list. That’s the point… to help the best ideas bubble up from the bottom and rise to the top.

@annfurnivall

Ann, as I dug around Princeton’s pages about this little tool and looked at how others had used it, my mind started to brainstorm all kind of cool ways businesses could put this to work to draw traffic to their websites, pages, and channels.

You can actually grab the embed code and put it on your site, dress it up pretty, and start a firestorm of discussion. You could tease the topic on your Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Twitter and suck traffic your way… with a great question… great quotes… great ideas…

For your store, you could throw it out their to your followers/list as a “Hey, guys! I need your help on something… need your suggestions here… want you to help me brainstorm something… make it an event of some kind with a beginning, a race for great ideas, and an end or finish line or countdown. And maybe giving a prize or some silly incentive to get people in the spirit of it. “Teamworks time”… that kind of thing…

Robin

@annfurnivall

Ann, I would definitely limit your “seeding,” putting only a few choices up there and encouraging them to contribute their ideas.

@annfurnivall 

It’s one of those little extra things you can throw up to see if there’s any response, change it up a bit, tweak it, and throw it back up with a new twist… just to see what happens, lol. It’s just such a cool tool… that can be used in so many different ways… with so many different subjects… that I’m definitely going to look for ways to put it to use.

One thing I’m going to do… is explain what a great personal decision tree tool it is. I mentioned Richard Bolles’ handwritten decision tree… I use it a lot when trying to prioritize a list of 10 or less items that I think I love all equally, lol. But I can only do one thing at a time or do one thing first. Gotta pick one, lol.

So I’m finding this tool is great for that… just me and my list of “thangs” that I need to prioritize. It quickly helps me choose between two ideas at a time… and my number one priority just auto-magically rises to the top… lots quicker than doing it on paper with Richard, lol. Here’s Richard’s little handwritten Priority Grid, just in case you don’t have it:

Make a numbered list of 10 items you need to prioritize, then go through this grid circling your choice between each of the two paired items, e.g., choose between 1 and 2, 1 and 3, 1 and 4 and so on. Add your totals at the end and you’ll have your prioritized list.

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 110     23 24 25 26 27 28 29 210          34 35 36 37 38 39 310               45 46 47 48 49 410                    56 57 58 59 510                         67 68 69 610                              78 79 710                                   89 810                                        910

The online Princeton priority dealy just lets you do this faster, typing in your choices, then running you through this system auto-magically. I love it!

Robin