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The administration panel includes everything you need to manage the contest.
1. Contest settings
- An admin enters the contest info – title, description, start and end dates, prizes, rules, terms, privacy
- Voting options – should visitors be able to vote more than once? once per IP per day? other possibilities.
- Limitations – should visitors have to enter their email (like click a Facebook ‘Like’) to be able to vote?
- Point systems – should participants earn virtual points for voting, sharing, viewing, or other activities? What will various levels of point-generation earn participants (this is in additional incentive system that is not always needed)
- Other options relating to how the contest operates
2. Branded content
Depending on the ‘Creative Activity Modules’ used, there will be settings relevant to that module (for example, in a comics content you need to upload branded backgrounds, characters, props, and other elements for fans to remix).
3. Moderation of contest entries
- Using a simple moderation tool, admins can browse, search, approve and block content submissions.
- Automated emails will be sent to the creators of approved submissions, notifying them that it is now posted in the contest gallery, a link to it, and an invitation to share it with family and friends to get votes to win the prizes.
- Another email can be sent to submissions that were decline (blocked) with a reason why it was blocked. Blocked items can also be chosen to not be emailed.
- These emails can be customized with branded content elements, messages and links
4. Membership management
Admins can view, sort, and analyze the membership listing, and export it to external systems
5. Contest statistics + progress reviews
Admins can view and analyze the progress of the contest using a Google Analytics from right inside the admin panel. Unique Google Analytics ‘Event’s can be assigned for specific contest ‘engagement point’ that you want to track, and they will be tracked on this page. More about measuring results >>
Further social media monitoring can be done through any third-party tool, such as Sysomos, Radian6, Hootsuite and others. Through a partnership with a Canadian university we may be able to provide an inexpensive monitoring and analysis for contest running throughout 2012-13.
6. Winner announcement + delivery
- Once the contest period is over, the system automatically stops accepting submissions and a message announces that the contest is now over and winners will be announced soon. This message can be edited in the admin panel.
- An admin panel displays the most-viewed posts, creators, their contact info, and ranking of the top 1,2,3,4,5, or more winners, based on the number of winners initially set in the admin and announced in the beginning to the fans.
- The admin also enables recording communications with the winners, whether the prize was delivered, and a place to post a testimonial and photos of the winners on the contest site.
7. Past contest archiving + other customizations
Admin tools can also be available to manage multiple contests, operated one after the other, with the past content submissions available in a separate browsing area. A separate ‘best-ever’ archive content contest can also have monthly winners – this can encourage on-going participation for much longer time.
