C|NET Mentions SurveyGizmo’s iPoll for the iPhone

We saw a nice spike in traffic the other day when CNET covered iPoll in their iPhone Apps section. This was a nice surprise, because we hadn’t seen iPoll covered since we released it back in July during the debut of the iPhone. iPoll is our free, quick polling service. You can ask your friends where to go to dinner, take a vote during a meeting, or even ask the world their opinion on a question.

Oh and don’t forget you don’t even need an iPhone! You can use iPoll with any web browser and a wide variety of web enabled phones. Give iPoll a try.

Hey, did you know…?

When we got the packet in the mail titled “Hey, did you know…?” we thought it was pretty cool that the third, fourth and fifth graders at the Edith Bowen Laboratory School in Logan, Utah, put together an almanac and shared it with us. And what was even cooler is that they used SurveyGizmo to create the class project.

The students came up with almost four dozen fun questions, and the final project is packed with neat info, such as “Do you think Snape is good or evil?” (65% say he’s evil) and “What is chef Heather’s best lunch?” (Apparently she cooks up an awesome pizza.)

The questions are accompanied by snazzy graphics; we love the SurveyGizmo charts and colorful clip art. Dr. Wallin’s class organized the data and laid out the pages – nice work, everyone!

Get Out And Vote: Choose your favorite SXSW Panels!

SXSW Interactive is a fantastic conference (heck, we don’t need to tell you that), and we think it’s so great that we want to take part by speaking at the festival in Austin next March.

We’ve pitched 6 ideas to the organizers:

• Speed Dating for Coders and Designers: Find your Business Mate. Are you entrepreneurially minded? Do you need to find a talent to match against your own? They say partnerships are like marriages, but how do you find one and make it successful? This session is half tips, strategies, and experiences from the presenters and half interactive session to meet and greet other attendees and make connections.
• Conquest Through Integration: Building Partnerships Via API. APIs are not just a tool for developers. This session demonstrates how to create partnerships and business opportunities centered around integration through open APIs. Learn how to partner with Fortune 500 companies ten times your size and establish marketing partnerships centered around integration.
• GTD for Startups: Getting Things Done in the Real World. We’ve all heard about processing your Inbox, proactive instead of reactive, and ‘Next Action’ lists, but how do you put this into real and varied workflows. We’ll share the actual tips, apps, and collaborative tools that help us implement GTD practices in when managing web development, publishing, customer service, and employees.
• Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid! When Not to Use Frameworks. Frameworks such as Ruby on Rails have received a lot of hype and press in the Web 2.0 community. However, frameworks are not always the best choice for a project. The session focuses on successful products that don’t use frameworks, or did… and wish they hadn’t.
• Startups and Workflows: Tools, Tips, and Strategies that Work. What collection of development, design, and collaboration tools make up the workflow of different roles in a startup? What’s in the bag of tricks that help a designer, developer, and serial entrepreneur get through their day-to-day?
• Blitzkrieg! Rapid Fire Tips on Design, Dev & Business. Experience a whirlwind of pointers as each of our four panelists compete to get 30 action-ready tips in out in under 15 minutes each. Each panelist shares tips from their experiences covering topics that include: Development, Business, Marketing & Design.

If you think any of these are good ideas, you can help make them reality. SXSW wants your feedback. Just head to the SXSW Panel Picker, where you can rate any of the hundreds of potential panels. (Hint: The easiest way to find our panels is to type “surveygizmo” in the Search engine.) Just click on a panel’s title to get the detailed description. You’ll have to register before you can rate the panels, but it’s a free, quick and painless process.

We encourage you to get out and vote!

SurveyGizmo Surveys on the Blackberry: Who knew!?

We discovered something totally unexpected this morning while doing a log check. Apparently our efforts towards accessible surveys had an unintended (and beneficial) effect — survey takers are using their Blackberry web browsers to take surveys created in SurveyGizmo! Who knew!

Not being a Blackberry person myself, I didn’t even know this was possible. We have known for months that a growing number of people are using mobile devices (like Treos) to take surveys. But until now, we didn’t even know the Blackberry had a web browser (blush).

We will post more information about how well the surveys work (and look) on the Blackberry as soon as we test them ourselves.

If you have one, try one of your surveys and see how well they work! Post a comment about your experience and any tips we can use to make sure surveys work well on this platform.

As always, we look forward to your feedback!

Update: 9/17/2007

Just a quick update. Having struggled with the cellular carriers to get my number ported I was forced to get a whole new phone (long story). The good news is that I am now a proud owner of a Blackberry 8830! I can confirm that, yes, our surveys work and look darn good on an Blackberry device. I suspect this is largely due to all the accessibility work we have done.

Free Webinar: Building Better Surveys with SurveyGizmo’s New Features

We’re having a new feature round-up webinar

UPDATE: Space is filling up fast, so get in now if you’re interested

Day: Tues, August 21^st

Time: 3pm Eastern Time

Topic: New features & tips, plus time- saving methods for effective survey building

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Learn why, with all of our new features & upgrades, SurveyGizmo is the best online survey tool - now more than ever. Build better surveys more quickly and more flexibly than ever before. Learn how.

About the “New Feature Round-up” Teleseminar

One comment we receive often is that it’s hard to keep up with all the enhancements and new features at SurveyGizmo. Heck, it seems like we add something revolutionary every other week! That’s why we are holding this teleseminar. During which you’ll be intoduced to:

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