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Features you'll love.

  • Conforms to eGovt guidelines
  • Works in your favourite browser
  • Produces great graphs
  • Visually consistent throughout
  • Keeps your users informed
Who uses Sonar? Click to visit The Couch
We created ‘The Couch’, a dedicated consultation website run by the Families Commission. The Couch uses online polls and questionnaires to engage with more than 3500 people on issues such as household budgeting and out-of-school care. Regular reporting ensures good participation rates and high levels of user satisfaction.
Amanda Heath, Group Manager, Community Relations
Online polls are an effective way of gathering information and engaging with your community.
Sonar will help you get the most out of the process with a consultation website that looks good and is easy to use and administer.

Sonar is a web-based application, which means it can be used by anyone with an Internet connection. It can be designed to match your existing website or tailored to give it a unique look and feel.

From signing up panelists to creating questionnaires and publishing reports online, it’s simple with Sonar. Regular reporting helps keep your panelists engaged and interested, and Sonar’s attractive graphs make the information easy to understand. They also make the results of your polls accessible to the wider public, leading to greater participation and more feedback.
Want to know more? Call us on +64 4 939 0062
or email us at: info@sonarhq.co.nz
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Sonar information sheet

Great news! We have put together a PDF information sheet to make it easier for you to share the great news about Sonar. You can download it from the link below.

Sonar-eConsultation.pdf [1MB]
Police wiki victim of its own success

Last week the New Zealand Police launched a wiki inviting comment and ideas from the public on the new Policing Act.

The response to the wiki was overwhelming with the wiki being suspended after 3 days of being open to the public. It’s fantastic to see the Police embracing such and open and democratic process. A brief look around the wiki quickly threw up examples of irreverence and satire. It’s disappointing that the public haven’t taken full advantage of the opportunity presented. Congratulations to the New Zealand Police on their willingness to engage the public.

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New features - Likert scale questions and Spider charts

This month we have added two great new features to Sonar, Likert scale questions and Spider charts.

Likert scales allow you to gather subjective and objective information from your audience. Sonar enables you to easily create Likert scales of as many points as needed. A default set can be set to make creating your Likert questions quick and easy.

To display the answers graphically we have adopted spider charts (sometimes referred to as radar charts). Log in to the online demo to see how they work and try your own. We look forward to your feedback on these great new features.

New feature - Audit trail

To make it easier to meet the e-Govt web guidelines we have recently added an audit trail to Sonar. This enables administrators to easily see when a change was made and by whom. If needed these changes can be “rolled back” to an earlier version.

We are adding exciting new features over the next month and welcome your feedback.

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