Over the past few weeks we’ve added a couple of fun features that seem to be attracting attention.

We’ve added the ability for Hschooler members to create simple, one question polls. When their friends answer the poll, the results are displayed as a pie chart. Each member can create two polls for free and can take as many as they like. To create more than two polls costs 50 Tuits per poll.

Some of the polls that members have created so far include:

• Favorite sport overall
• Favorite type of food
• Favorite NFL team
• Denomination

We’ve also made it possible for Hschooler members to create more sophisticated “fun quizzes”. These quizzes ask the participant a series of questions about themselves, and based on the answers, the quiz makes an association. You’ll see what I mean by the examples below. Each member can create one fun quiz for free and additional ones cost 100 Tuits each.

Some of the fun quizzes created so far:

• What Star Wars Planet Are You Most Like
• What Super Hero Are You Most Like?
• What animal are you?
• Which of Jesus’ apostles are you most like?

As with all features within Hschooler.net, parents with family accounts can turn this capability off for any of their family members. By default, new polls and quizzes are only visible to the friends of the member (or less if the creator chooses), and parents can also change this to allow broader or less broad visibility.

Log in to Hschooler and visit the Quiz Center (under the Tools menu) to try it out now!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth at the MPE Conference this weekend.

It was great to meet those of you who are already Hschooler members and to hear how much you love the service. It was also great to introduce hundreds of families to Hschooler and to hear their enthusiasm for how we are addressing the challenges of safely raising families in a world that is increasingly reliant on online social networks.

I hope and pray the service we are creating can be a blessing to many!

Apparently, the new interest in Hschooler.net following the MPE conference was overloading our server. We’ve just completed upgrading the hosting, increasing capacity by 50%. We’ll keep an eye on it to see if this is enough. We apologize for any problems you may have encountered today because of this capacity problem.

Friday and Saturday, April 16-17, we will be at the Midwest Parent Educators Homeschool Conference at the KCI Expo Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

If you’re in the area, come visit us in Booth #1108!

See you there!