13 posts tagged “vox hunt”
For the last two and a half years, we've been providing you with two daily prompts to inspire you when your fingers are frozen on the keyboard: The QotD and Vox Hunt.
We've noticed in the past year or so that while most of you love to answer the Question of the Day, fewer and fewer of you have been responding to the daily Vox Hunts. In fact, it seemed that, if anything, the Vox Hunt was taking away from the Question of the Day, rather than complementing it, as intended. Because of that, we've made the tough decision to remove Vox Hunt and focus solely on the Question of the Day.
We understand that change of any kind is never easy, but rest assured: while Vox Hunt is going away, the ideas and challenge associated with Vox Hunts will still remain, only now you'll find them within the QotD. From time to time, QotDs will ask you questions that encourage you to add media associated with your answer (photos, music, videso), just like the Vox Hunt did.
We hope that by combining the two, we will succeed in inspiring even more people to answer the QotD and in bringing the Vox community together by prompting you to share your vast array of opinions and stories (and the media associated with them) on similar topics.
Today is the last day for Vox Hunt, so take a moment to say goodbye by showing us whatever it is that makes you happy.
If you have any questions or thoughts about this... or anything, you can always send me a message.
Until next time...
Designers, you have just two days left to submit your theme in the HP "What Do You Have to Say?" Theme Design Contest! Be sure to upload your entry by Friday, April 4th at 5 p.m. PDT. The top three winners, as selected by the panel of judges, will receive a cool prize:
- First Place: $1000 gift certificate from Hewlett Packard
- Second Place: $500 gift certificate from Hewlett Packard
- Third Place: $300 gift certificate from Hewlett Packard
Community voting stays open for an extra week until April 11th, so make sure you have your say by voting for all of your favorite designs. We’ll announce all the winners at the end of April.
Visit the "What Do You Have To Say?" theme design contest site to read all the details, submit your theme and vote for your favorites!
April Fools! The QotD & Vox Hunt Aren't Going Anywhere!
Yesterday, we announced the end of an era on Vox. Those of you who clicked on the link in the post or the Vox Talks newsletter were directed to a QotD asking, "What's the best April Fools' Day prank you've ever had pulled on you?"
Since not everyone clicked on the link, we thought we'd just go ahead and state the obvious: We were just playing an April Fools' Day joke on you. QotD and Vox Hunt are an institution around here and it would take a lot more than a few discussions about the "direction of Vox" to make a change as enormous as that.
Have a good idea for the QotD or Vox Hunt? Please send us a message letting us know what questions or challenges you'd like to see and we'll do our best to get them out there.
And thanks for being such good sports!
As you've noticed, we've been making a lot of changes to Vox during the past couple of months. These changes were all implemented to make sure you're getting the most out of your Vox experience... to ensure that Vox is truly a place where you can come to share your passions and your creativity.
Two of the features we originally implemented to inspire creativity recently came up in conversation. The Question of the Day and Vox Hunt have both been fixtures of Vox since the very beginning. As we sat around in meetings and discussed their role going forward, we marveled at your honesty answering questions like, "How many times have you had your heart broken?" and laughed at your willingness to "show us your worst school photo." Vox Hunt and the QotD have truly been an amazing and important part of Vox throughout our infancy.
However, in our lengthy discussions, we realized that we just no longer felt like the QotD or Vox Hunt were representative of the direction in which Vox is going. This was a difficult decision, and while it may seem abrupt, please trust us when we tell you it has been discussed extensively and all the pros and cons have been weighed and measured.
All of that being said, today will be the last day for both the QotD and Vox Hunt. So please do take the time to answer both and celebrate what was an amazing Vox tradition.
We've turned off the comments for this post as we'd like to collect all the feedback for this decision in one place. If you'd like to read more about this decision, or provide us with comments/feedback, please do so here.
We're going to miss the QotD and Vox Hunt as well, but we have some new ideas up our sleeve that we think you'll love even more. We hope you agree.
There are a lot of things that you can do to participate in Vox as a community member, and some of the most engaging are the daily prompts and the spotlight area for [this is good]. It's quite fun to see what the Question of the Day and Vox Hunt will be every day - this is something that I personally enjoy checking out each morning. I also look forward to every time [this is good] is updated (about 3 times a week, usually Monday, Wednesday and Friday), so I can click through and see what great content around Vox is being featured.
Voxers always have something to say, and the goal of QotD and Vox Hunt are to get you thinking and writing even when you log in and aren't feeling inspired. If the day's QotD or Vox Hunt doesn't move you, you can click the arrows to read through and answer previous prompts. The posts and photo featured in [this is good] can inspire you or help you make a new friend.
Where does this content come from? We get suggestions from you, our members, and these are looked at by the community team to add their own suggestions and pull it all together. Vox has a great deal of spotlight-worthy content, and we really love that our community helps us as the "eyes and ears" to point out the great things they see!
So how can you give us your ideas? The Home page of Vox has "suggest" and "submit" links in each of the prompt and feature boxes. Click on that link, and it will create a new private message addressed to the community team. For the QotD and Vox Hunt prompts, put your idea in the form of a question or statement that people would answer. Keep in mind Vox has an international audience and the questions should be open-ended (not "yes" or "no"). For [this is good], include a link to the item you are suggesting, and the reason why. Tip: If you want to have a record of all of the ideas you submitted, make sure you click the "Send me a copy via email"!
How else can you be part of the community? There are a lot of ways, really, but here are a few ideas:
- Add relevant tags to your posts and items. This makes it easier for people to find them. See All About Tags
- Explore the answers for Vox Hunt and QotD from other members. You might find some great people to add to your neighborhood. See Exploring Vox Blogs
- Join groups and add your posts to them. This is a great way to share content related to specific topics. See Adding Content to Groups
And of course, check out the Question of the Day and Vox Hunt to answer them as often as you'd like!
Have you shared suggestions for our community content yet? Share some of your ideas in the comments, and you just might inspire your friends to participate too!
-- Kristine & the Vox help team
The first poll is up in the "What Do You Have To Say?" contest sponsored by HP. This poll covers the first week's theme of photography. Click on the link below to cast your vote:
Vote in Poll #1 in HP's "What Do You Have To Say?" contest
Congratulations to the finalists! One Grand Prize winner will receive a $150 gift certificate and two runners-up will each receive a $25 gift certificate to HP.com.
This sponsored contest runs through September 23rd so there's still time to participate. Read all about it on the HP contest landing page and don't forget to read the official rules.
Music is this week's theme, so be sure to answer the Vox Hunt to be automatically entered into the contest.
- Krissy
We've got a brand new contest and sponsorship to announce!
You may know HP as a technology company. They now want to help you collaborate, contribute and create! Everyone has something to say. HP hopes they can inspire you to share your creative passions on Vox through photography, writing, fashion, art and more.
HP's sponsoring a contest around Vox Hunt for the next four weeks. Here are the contest details:
- The Vox Hunt prompt will follow a new theme each week.
- When you respond to a Vox Hunt prompt, you'll be automatically entered into a contest.
- At the end of each week we'll select the five best responses and post them to a poll in the contest blog (polls will appear a week after the theme has ended).
- The Vox community will vote for the winners: One Grand Prize winner will receive a $150 gift certificate and two runners-up will each receive a $25 gift certificate to either iTunes, Amazon.com, HP.com, or Art.com.
Head to the "What Do You Have To Say?" contest landing page to see the dates for each theme and to read the Official Rules for the contest. You might want to add the contest blog to your neighborhood so you can see new polls and vote on your favorite entries to win.
Photography Week kicked off this morning! Respond to the Vox Hunt for your chance to win.
It's time for another international Question of the Day and Vox Hunt event!
Today we're asking Voxers around the world to share their thoughts on summertime. Team Vox U.S., France, Spain and Japan are all running these prompts:
QotD: What will you remember most about this summer?
Vox Hunt: Share your favorite song from this summer.
The responses to all the prompts will be marked with the tag "summer 2007". After everyone has a chance to respond, a search on that global tag of "summer 2007" will show posts, photos, video and/or audio from around the Vox world, all sharing the same summertime theme.
We hope you're able to participate in the summertime fun. Our plan is to team up for these shared global themes a few times a year, so that our Vox neighborhood can extend across the world.
- Krissy
There are always great things to discover on Vox, and we spotlight some of the neat stuff we see around Vox in the [this is good] area, which you can find on the Explore page. We feature this great stuff based on your suggestions, so any time you see something inspiring, funny, thought-provoking or interesting in any way, click on "suggest this is good" and send the link to us!
If you're looking for inspiration for your own Vox, we give you prompts every day with the Question of the Day and Vox Hunt, right on the Home page. As you can imagine, coming up with QotD and Vox Hunt prompts every single day of the year is no easy task; we've got a hugely diverse community, so finding something that connect with everyone can be tough. Please, don't be shy about sending in your suggestions!
If you've missed some past prompts and spotlighted content, are you just left out in the cold? Of course not! The [this is good], Vox Hunt, and QotD areas all have arrows you can click on to scroll through a few recent entries. And all of these areas are actually
powered by Vox blogs that you can visit any time -- you can even add them
to your Neighborhood to always stay up-to-date with them. We know that older QotD and Vox Hunt prompts can still be great for post ideas, and it's always fun to see the content that's been highlighted on Vox in the past.
- See all the [this is good] content at thisisgood.vox.com.
- View the QotD at questions.vox.com.
- Track every Vox Hunt at voxhunt.vox.com.
- For ideas in Japanese, check out questions-jp.vox.com and voxhunt-jp.vox.com
- For French prompts, take a look at questions-fr.vox.com and voxhunt-fr.vox.com
And for those of us who don't know enough Japanese and/or French to participate in those prompts, there are always photos to view at the Japanese [this is good] at thisisgood-jp.vox.com and the French [this is good] at thisisgood-fr.vox.com. You don't need to speak the language to leave someone a [this is good] on those, and you can even leave them a [いいですね] or [c’est top] if you'd rather do that.
Did you know that you can send in your own suggestions for the Question of the Day, the Vox Hunt prompt, and the [this is good] box?
Many
of you already knew that, but it seemed like a good time to remind you
all (especially since the [this is good] suggestion mechanism was
accidentally turned off for a few days after our last release). Just look for the suggest link:
Your suggestion will be sent via a private message to an actual human member of Team Vox. We review all your suggestions, then select and schedule them with several goals in mind, including variety, entertainment, appeal, appropriateness (is that a word?) and more.
We love to watch and see which QotDs, Vox Hunts and [this is good] features really strike a nerve with the community, and we hear you when a certain day's post doesn't speak to you. The best way to influence the subjects we cover is to send in your suggestions! Plus you'll get a full day of Vox fame with your name & blog linked in the prompt.
A special note for the Vox Hunt suggestions: we're trying to include a prompt each week for videos, books and audio. So please feel free to make some suggestions with those subjects in mind!
As much as we'd love to, we simply won't be able to use every suggestion. Often several people send in the same suggestion, and some just don't seem appropriate to Vox. Truth be told, a lot of us on Team Vox have a slightly, um, different sense of humor, but since Vox is a place for everyone (including your dear mother or that one cranky cousin of yours), sometimes we've got to filter out suggestions that made us think or made us laugh.
We'll leave you with a just a few QotD suggestions that just didn't make the cut:
- If you could save only ONE family member at the last minute, who would it be?
- What form of death most terrifies you?
- If you had the opportunity to "make money" in exchange "sexual favors" would you do it?
- Tell us what ads by Google are at the bottom of YOUR Vox page?
Of course there's nothing stopping you from discussing these with your Vox neighborhood!
- Krissy
When you're in the mood to post to your blog, but your fingers are frozen on the keyboard and no words are coming, let your media items speak for you! You might find you have a lot to type once you get a little help from your photos, videos, audio, and books, and Vox certainly makes it easy for you to share media with others.
Vox gives you two prompts to get you blogging, seven days a week, right on the Home page. In addition to our Question of the Day that we highlighted here recently, Vox gives you a daily prompt called Vox Hunt to give you some ideas for adding media to your blog. Each day you'll get the chance to showcase items like a great love song, a photo that warms your heart, or your favorite movie scene.
To respond to the day's Vox Hunt, click the "Post your Answer" button under the prompt, and you'll be taken to Compose
with a title and some tags already filled in for you. Insert the media
item in the usual way by clicking the appropriate button for whatever
type of media you're sharing. Additional tags will be added for that
media item as well.
You may also decide to add some text to
your response, whether it's a memory associated with that song or some
tips about how you took that great photo. You could even decide that a
photo can be public for everyone to view while the story behind the
photo is going to be in a post just for family. The choice is yours.
If you
have an idea for a Vox Hunt challenge, please let us know! Just click
on the "Submit a challenge" under the day's prompt. If we use your
suggestion, you'll get a link to your Vox blog that day, so get ready
for some company.
--Brandy and the Vox help team
