How do people use www.allourideas.org?

As I said in my first post, we have had about 250 idea marketplaces created and have collected about 65,000 votes (see map).  One question that I get asked frequently is what are these people doing? 

Here are some examples of how people are using their idea marketplaces:

• The professor of Sociology 101 at Berkeley used it to allow students to set priorities for the final exam review session for his 500 person class.  That idea marketplace had 3,000 votes and 12 ideas uploaded in less than 24 hours.
• Columbia Law School student government used allourideas to find the best ideas for improving campus life.  They started the site with 60 ideas, but in 48 hours they received 15,000 votes and 200 additional ideas uploaded.  In the end, the top 10 ideas were all uploaded by students.
• A technology consulting company in New York used it to collaboratively write a mission statement with participation from people in 15 offices around the world.  They seeded the idea marketplace with about 100 themes (e.g., fast, creative, strategic) and through the process of voting and uploading, the most important themes rose to the top and formed the basis for the mission statement.
• Catholic Relief Services used allourideas for “consensus decision making at a distance.”  More specifically, they used to collect feedback from their 4,000 employees in 150 offices around the world.  They launched simultaneous idea marketplaces in English, French, and Spanish, and in total they have collected 20,000 votes and 100 new ideas.

It will be interesting to see how people use www.allourideas.org in the future.