Participants can quickly and easily add new items and comment on existing ones. No user training is necessary. If appropriate, users can be granted search, sort, edit, and categorization capabilities. Ideas can be elaborated on, categorized, combined, prioritized, edited, moved, and copied. Items can be scored on a single criterion or multiple criteria.
Criteria can be numeric, check boxes, or pull-down menus.
In addition to a complete set of predefined voting profiles, users can create customized profiles. No programming skills are required, just click and type. Voting results are automatically calculated and graphed for all to see if appropriate. For multi-criteria voting, weighted averages can also be calculated. Access can be open to anyone with access to the internet or restricted to only users with a valid user id and password.