Google Moderator allows you to create a series about anything that you are interested in discussing and open it up for people to submit questions, ideas, or suggestions. Google Moderator shows you a question in the box. Anyone who visit your site site and submit a question, idea, or vote, and anyone can vote.
To create a series, visit http://google.com/moderator and select “Create Series.” (This requires signing in with a Google Account) This brings you to the series creation page.
Here you can:
- Name your series to tell your audience what it is about
- Provide a description about your series
- Add administrators who can also change the series name, description, and topics.
- Choose whether or not to allow users to make submissions anonymously
- Choose whether or not to allow users to make submissions containing YouTube videos
All of this information can be changed later through the “Edit Series” button on your series page. When you are done editing, click “Create Series”. It will look like this:
Embedding Moderator
First, place the following code in the HEAD section of your page:
[script src=”http://www.google.com/moderator/static/moderator-embed-api.js” type=”text/javascript”][/script]
Next, create an empty element on your page with a specified ID that will contain the embedded Moderator page, for example
[div id=”moderator-embed-target”][/div]
In your browser, open the existing Moderator page that you want to embed and retrieve the URL, for example:
http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=409f
For basic uses, below the target element you created above, include the URL of your Moderator page and the ID of the target element in this code:
[script type="text/javascript"> MODERATOR_embed("http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=409f", "moderator-embed-target");] [/script]
For advanced uses, you can specify the height, width and language of the embedded page using code like below, instead of using the MODERATOR_embed function:
[script type="text/javascript"]
var mod = new MODERATOR(“http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=409f”);
mod.hl = “es”;
mod.width = 1000;
mod.height = 500;
mod.embed(“moderator-embed-target”);
[/script]
Putting it all together: Here’s a sample page that embeds this Moderator series using default properties:
[html]
[head]
[title]Embedding Moderator Sample[/title]
[script src=”http://www.google.com/moderator/static/moderator-embed-api.js” type=”text/javascript”][/script]
[/head]
[body]
[div id=”moderator-embed-target”][/div]
[script type="text/javascript"]MODERATOR_embed(“http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=409f”, “moderator-embed-target”);]
[/script]
[/body]
[/html]
**Note: Please change “[ ]” with “< >”
Posted: August 16th, 2010 under Google, Google Moderator.
Tags: Google, Google Moderator