You can now add polls to all of your Facebook fan pages, business pages, and any other pages you might be cooking up.

Step 1: Click here to add the Polldaddy app to your page.

Step 2: Once the app is added, go to your Facebook Page and click on the + tab to the right of your tabs at the top under your page name. You should then see a popup that lets you add tabs to your page. If the PollDaddy App is not listed simply enter “polldaddy” in the search box to find it.

Step 3: You should now see a tab called “Polls” on your page. you can now go back to the PollDaddy App and create a new poll. Now when you create or edit one of your polls you can see at the bottom of the form there is an option to add it to your Facebook Page. If you do so, that poll will now reside in the polls tab on your page.

Notes: All administrators of your Facebook Page can add polls to the polls tab. They just need to add the PollDaddy App to their own profiles.

You can find more info on our Facebook App help page.

As some of you may have already seen we have been testing out a new PollDaddy application on Facebook. Today we are officially launching it! We know from support that a lot of users have been trying different way to integrate their polls with their Facebook communities. Well now you can manage all of your polls directly in your Facebook account. Once you add the application you can create polls and share them with your friend and the wider Facebook community. You can also track all of your votes and comments for the first time. To get started just add the app from the link below and start polling!

Add the PollDaddy Facebook App

We have added a new setting to the poll options – an expiry limit on vote blocking.

When you choose to block repeat voters, using cookies or cookies and IP address, you can now specify how long the voters should be blocked for.

You can choose to block voters for between 1-12 hours, 1 day, 1 week, or even 1 month. This is one more customisation feature that allows you to refine who can access your polls.

If you would like to suggest another setting or feature you can contact us on the PollDaddy feedback page.

We’re always trying to make it easier for our users to embed polls, surveys, and ratings into their pages, so it was only a matter of time before we supported oEmbed.

For the uninitiated, oEmbed is an open standard created by the guys at Flickr, OpenDNS, and Pwonce, and is used to embed media such video and pictures. With the new PollDaddy support you can also embed polls, surveys and ratings!

Anyone with a blog will tell you: the best thing about the social media sharing revolution is the “sharing” part.

Webmonkey have written a good Getting Started with oEmbed if you want to find out about the details.

Where oEmbed is supported, PollDaddy users can post something like:

http://polldaddy.com/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fanswers.polldaddy.com%2Fpoll%2F2064343%2F&format=json

A poll will be embedded into their page – nice!

Further information on how to use oEmbed on Polldaddy can be found on the PollDaddy oEmbed support page.

We’ve added a great new option to the poll editor which will allow you to limit the number of choices a user can select in a multiple choice poll. This means you can create ‘pick your top five favourites out of ten’ style polls. This also applies to ‘other’ text answers too.

The option is available in the poll editor once you select the multiple choice option:

Try it out…

Got any other features you’d like us to add? Let us know from the feedback page !

We have added an update to the Email Groups feature that we launched a couple of weeks ago. You can now embed a poll or a survey into an email, so the recipient can submit their response directly from the email.

Just use the [poll] shortcode to embed a poll in the email, or [survey] shortcode to embed a survey. More on how to do this can be found on the support page.

Polls and surveys are then embedded directly in the email as a form without the need for any other code. This should should work for all email clients, although if you find one that doesn’t work please do let us know.

We have been busy integrating PollDaddy Jr. on another excellent website creator, Weebly.com. This partnership will allow Weebly users to create and manage their PollDaddy polls directly in their Weebly website editor without the need to go to PollDaddy.com.

If you use Weebly.com you can access this new functionality by clicking on the ‘More’ folder in the site editor.

From there just choose the ‘Online Poll’ option.

Weebly is a website creator that allows you to create pages with template skins and content widgets. Users can easily drag-and-drop content widgets like pictures, text and video to create neat looking pages. They also provide a new blogging platform that can be added to a personal Weebly page.

If you would like any more information on PollDaddy Jr. and how it can help your users communicate and interact with their own online community then please give us a shout!

Ning have officially announced the launch of Ning Apps. We are delighted that PollDaddy Junior is included in the Apps directory under the Featured and the Collaboration categories.

Ning Apps will allow you to add this application as a Network Creator and add a poll to your network.

This is one of the cleanest implementations of Opensocial that I have personally developed with and I am in no doubt the number of Apps (currently 90) will quickly grow.

Best of luck Ning!

We’ve added a custom style editor to the WordPress polls dashboard. This editor will give WordPress users the freedom to style their polls anyway you want. This will come in handy when you need a poll to match your blog theme or when you want to add a funky background image to your poll.

There is now a link in the Polls menu to ‘Custom Styles’. This will take you to your list of custom styles where you can create, edit, or delete your styles.

Apart from building a poll style from scratch, the style editor will also allow you to preload a range of standard styles as a starting point. You can then add your modifications as you see fit.

We have also added this to the WordPress.org plugin, bringing the latest version to 1.7.

Feedback on the editor will be appreciated here. Let us know if there is anything else we can add to help you further customize your polls.

As some of you may know there is an Apple press event today regarding an update to some of their music products. Apple events always generate a lot of buzz and Gizmodo, the biggest gadget blog on the planet, is always there reporting for their millions of waiting fans. This time around they thought they would try some live feedback on their blog to include the many readers who are eagerly awaiting news. Together with design firm Mekanism we came up with a unique voting mechanism to find out how Apple fans think about the new products released in real time. Head on over to the Gizmodo live blog to see this in action.
Go vote now!