September 20th, 2007 by Christian Vanek

Next Webinar: Top-Ten Survey Best Practices

Join survey experts Dr. Ed Halteman and Christian Vanek, as they discuss ten of the most important best practices for surveying. If you are running a survey anytime in the next year — you can’t afford to miss this event.

When: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th at 2PM EASTERN TIME

You’ll learn:

* Ten Tips that cover the entire process from brainstorming to reporting
* Real world examples from Christian and Ed’s past projects
* How to use simple tools to increase your response rate
* Survey testing methodology
* How to choose questions & word your surveys correctly

And that doesn’t cover half of it. Reserve your seat below and we’ll give you the conference instructions. We will be recording this webinar; however, for the best experience, you should join us live.

Register for this Free Webinar Today.

See you on Thursday, September 27th at 2pm!

Christian Vanek
Was this article/answer/blog helpful? Let us know! Christian is a founding partner of SurveyGizmo, CTO, and the lead software engineer. He comes from an 11-year consulting background focusing on marketing and content management tools. Christian is based out of Cambridge, MA.

September 18th, 2007 by Scott McDaniel

Wikispaces adds SurveyGizmo Survey Widget

Wikispaces, an online self-service tool for creating your own wiki has integrated a SurveyGizmo survey/poll widget. The widget makes it easy to add a survey, poll, or contact form directly into your Wikispaces wiki page.

Wikispaces is a great service that allows your group, club, team, etc. to have a central place to share information and allows everyone to group edit it. Our widget shares shelf space with Google, YouTube, Skype, and Flickr. We encourage you to take a look.

Wikispaces SurveyGizmo Survey Widget

Scott McDaniel
Scott McDaniel is a co-founder of SurveyGizmo and wears different hats from CEO to lead designer. Before giving up his life to the startup growth curve, he obsessed about user experience design. He lives in Boulder, Colorado and can also be found updating his blog at www.scottmcdaniel.com.

September 10th, 2007 by Christian Vanek

SpellCheck!

Just a quick notice announcing a long overdue feature here at SurveyGizmo, Spell Check.

We are happy to announce that we have finally activated the spell check for the WYSIWYG editor we use.

Now bad spellers, such as myself, can click on a simple button to spell check their questions & descriptions! Not much more we can say about that! We’ll be adding the spell check to the Bulk Edit tool for multiple choice options too.

Happy Surveying!

Christian Vanek
Was this article/answer/blog helpful? Let us know! Christian is a founding partner of SurveyGizmo, CTO, and the lead software engineer. He comes from an 11-year consulting background focusing on marketing and content management tools. Christian is based out of Cambridge, MA.

September 6th, 2007 by Scott McDaniel

New Online Survey Services: Consulting and Data Import

SurveyGizmo’s online survey software is, if we say so ourselves, pretty darn user-friendly. But you might have a special project and need some programming, integration or other technical aid. Or maybe you want your survey to have a branded look and feel. Or you have old data you want to import into SurveyGizmo. Whatever the case, we can help.

The SurveyGizmo staff of designers, technicians, developers and survey experts is ready to help you on your next survey project. We now offer affordable data import, survey build and custom integration services. You’ll find all the details, including an online request form, in our Support/Community section.

Scott McDaniel
Scott is the lead designer at SurveyGizmo. He has been passionate about designing friendly, usable web applications for over 10 years at companies such as MarketingSherpa, LexisNexis, MessageMedia, and DoubleClick. He can also rarely be found updating his blog at scottmcdaniel.com.