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Everything you need to start listening with cicada.buzz — creating an organization, writing a poll, sharing it by link or QR code, and reading the themes that come back.
- What is cicada.buzz?A plain-English introduction to what cicada.buzz does and who it's for.
- Create Your Account and OrganizationSigning up, creating an organization, and inviting the people you work with.
- Create a PollWriting a headline and an open-ended question, and choosing who can see the poll.
- Share Your PollThe link, the QR code, embedding on your own site, and the public polls directory.
- Answering a PollWhat a respondent sees: the conversation, voice answers, picking topics, and submitting.
- Read Your Results: Themes and TopicsHow answers turn into topics and themes, what the leaderboard filters do, and how to build a custom theme.
- Views: Slice Results by Place and TimeUsing the map and timeline to save a subset of responses you can come back to.
- Post a ResolutionMarking a custom theme resolved so the community can see what you did about it.
- Plans and BillingHow plans work per organization, upgrading, and managing payment details.