Ethelo is designed to support access by broad, diverse audiences
Publish content and manage engagements in multiple languages. Pre-configured with 5 languages.
Complies with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 AA for universal access
Supports five different access types, from one-click public access to highly secure logins
Mobile responsive design ensures optimal display of content across computers, tablets and all mobile devices.
Allows many types of user roles, including administrators, participants, moderators and observers.
Material design user experience for simple, professional presentation
Ethelo makes the security and quality of your data a top priority
End-to-end https encryption, industry-standard AWS Virtual Private Cloud network security
Process and store your data on a private server for highly secure access
Identifies unusual or suspicious user activity to eliminate spam or robot accounts
Option to require access codes and email confirmation for sensitive engagements
Choose whether to locate your servers in Canada or the United States
Advanced moderation panel to review, edit and/or delete flagged comments
Ethelo is highly configurable, allowing you many modes of engagement
Access a library of dozens of different decision templates for all kinds of group engagements.
Brand the platform with your own logo, custom colours and fonts, and custom CSS styling
Select your own *.ethelo.net address, or choose a custom URL for each project.
Edit your content directly in the rich text editor. You can embed videos, images, and upload files.
Exercise full control over the appearance of your content, right down to the HTML and CSS.
Mix and match different engagements on different pages for a fully customized environment.
Tailor any of the system words on the platform to suit your engagement.
Ethelo supports many modalities of engagement in a single platform
Use surveys and questionnaires to gather information and present the results to participants in real-time
Allow participants to propose ideas, and discuss and evaluate each others suggestions.
Provide forums for threaded discussion on an unlimited number of topics, options or questions
Allow participants to post their responses privately for the eyes of administrators only.
Participants can choose to receive alerts when content is posted and when their comments are voted on, or replied to.
Industry-leading suite of voting and decision-making functionality (see Decisive)
Customize and schedule your participant emails including invitations, reminders, and thank you emails
Give participants a trackable URL to share, and reward those who encourage the most to join
Ethelo enables groups to reach specific, broadly supported decisions
Participants can evaluate options using a range of likert-scale voting tools
Participants can prioritize issues and determine where they want to have the most influence
Participants can use voting tools to identify their personal top choice from all scenarios
Ethelo uses scenarios analysis to find the most strongly supported solutions to complex problems
Participants can apply and weight different criteria in evaluating the options on the table
The amount of influence different participants and groups have on the results can be fine-tuned
Ensure real-world constraints such as cost are respected in any potential decisions generated
Find outcome scenarios where satisfaction is distributed fairly, reducing polarization and resistance
Ethelo provides the data and analysis tools for penetrating insights
Schedule pre-configured report updates on an hourly or daily basis
Export your data to specially designed spreadsheet templates for easily customized visualizations
Share some or all of the real-time results with your participants in an easy graphical format
Analyse your results using a variety of custom analytics for unprecedented support insight
Google Analytics integration
One-click connect to Google analytics for advanced understanding of on-platform activity
Adjust participant influence to turn non-representative sample groups into representative samples