Just in time for Santa’s little helpers — We just received a huge shipment of original SurveyGizmo Comic Cookbooks.

Now, these are not your ordinary, plain-jane cookbook (because we’re not ordinary plain-jane people!). The cookbooks are chock-full of our personal favorite recipes along with some colorful commentary that we’re sure you’ll enjoy.
Here are some [...]

This past weekend we had the honor of attending the Fourth Annual, Meals on Wheels: A Holiday Festival of Trees benefit. The benefit helped raise money for our local Boulder branch of Meals on Wheels, and we all had an amazing time.
The benefit has been near and dear to our Sales Engineer, Mario’s heart [...]

Congratulations! You’ve made it to Friday. To celebrate this international weekly accomplishment, we’re hereby instating Fun Fridays, where we post items that aim to increase your end-of-the-week jollification. Yay!
As fun is a relative term, we’ll try to vary the types of posts we do, to make sure there’s fun for everyone! On that note, if [...]

With the new school year just around the corner, we here at SurveyGizmo have been reminiscing about our own (old) schooldays. Chicken patties in the cafeteria, kickball out at recess, MASH on the bus.
You remember MASH, right? The totally awesome pencil-and-paper adventure that told your future? Remember the excitement when you discovered you would marry [...]

We’re off to sunny California….well, Jase, our web designer is at least. While he’s there, he is going to be holding another user meetup!
This meetup with be held on Wednesday, July 22 in San Diego. If you have some free time on Wednesday and are in the San Diego area, we would love [...]

Four employees of SurveyGizmo completed the 2009 Colorado Bike for Multiple Sclerosis (Bike MS) on June 27th and June 28th.

Christian Vanek – Co-Founder & CTO
Scott McDaniel – Co-Founder & CEO
Toi McDaniel – Finance & Account Manager
Mario Lurig – Sales Engineer

The entire ride included 3000+ cyclists raising money for Multiple Sclerosis research by riding 150 [...]

We are having so much fun hosting all the various user meet-ups, we decided that it’s about time to host one in our neck of the woods — in Denver!
So, if you’re one of our local users in the Denver/Boulder area, feel free to stop by Lucile’s Cafe in Denver a week from today (Wednesday, [...]

I had an interesting experience the other day with a customer service team at a certain “Web events and online meetings” company. I was attempting to make it so that we could use VoIP and our regular call in conference call line simultaneously for our weekly webinars. After trying to hack the email that [...]

Every year the Boulder County Business Report names the top 100 fastest growing companies to their Mercury 100 list. We are proud to announce that on Thursday, May 28th, SurveyGizmo was named the 5th fastest growing company in Boulder and Broomfield counties. The Mercury 100 list is compiled by ranking companies in Boulder and Broomfield [...]

Two days ago I convinced myself that the world would end tragically if I didn’t get my hands on the new Nintendo DSi (and I was right – I heard rumors of tornadoes dying and seas calming as I signed my name on the receipt).
So I got home and immediately downloaded the free DSi Web [...]

We had about 75 people visit for our Open House this past Friday, and wanted to share some pictures of the new office and everyone having a great time. We have a saying around here, we take our work seriously, but not ourselves. I think that shows in these pictures!
To all of you who came [...]

We recently had the privilege to answer a question that came up on Dave Taylor’s very popular Business, and Tech Support Q & A website, AskDaveTaylor.com. Dave is a friend of SurveyGizmo’s (we actually shared an office with him when we were first starting out), and when a survey question came up, he thought [...]

As some of you may have heard, these past few weeks we have been moving into our newer, 3 times bigger, even brighter, with 3 times the amount of decks (see side photo of one of the decks), office. And we are all officially moved in and ready to invite you over!
We’re loving this [...]

As some of you may have noticed, a few weeks back, we had our first SurveyGizmo User Lunch. We had a fantastic turn out, and a great time (according to Derek, our host for that event), and we want to keep the ball rolling.
What we would like to do now, is find out where [...]

It’s funny how you’ll hear similar topics come up within the same week — it happens all the time over here where we will get similar requests for features from all of you at the same time (we like to refer to it as a “collective consciousness”), but this time it has happened within the [...]

Ranking questions provide the order of preference of select items from the survey respondent. Manipulating the Ranking questions is easy using the arrows to the right of each option, but there are a few considerations that are important to note about the behaviour of Ranking questions:

If no options are changed/moved, the question is considered unanswered [...]

Dr. Glen Livingston is a psychiatrist turned market researcher who teaches a highly effective method of market research using surveys to pre-test niche markets for profitability.
One of his students recently did some research looking for online survey tools that best meet the needs of those who use the Livingston Method of market research.
The three most [...]

At SurveyGizmo we value the environment (heck- our offices are based in Boulder, CO) and that’s why a few of us have gotten together and started carpooling.
Yes, we do realize that we could single-handedly take out a good portion of SurveyGizmo if we were to get into an accident (knock on wood), but we have [...]

One of our newest SurveyGizmo users, Pauli Price, recently came to us because she wanted to use our survey API for the Rails Rumble 2008 contest that she is involved in.
Pauli gave us a quick run-down interview of the contest as well as how her group is integrating SurveyGizmo into their, hopefully award-winning, project.
It’s always [...]

We have some exciting news!
SurveyGizmo has been nominated as one of Upshot Institute’s top 50 marketing technology companies! We have been put there along side a few other online survey companies as well as some other really cool up and coming companies focused on marketing tools and technology.
Here is a little blurb from the Upshot [...]

“Thank you, thank you, thank you!” wrote one of our customers after we recommended he use the Firefox browser for his survey work this week.
At over 200 pages and growing, his survey is one of the longest surveys ever created in SurveyGizmo.
Using Internet Explorer 6 on a 4-year-old computer, he had to wait more than 5 minutes-that’s [...]

Today we stumbled upon a really cool comparison chart of survey providers that the folks over at TechSoup made up. The chart goes through various online survey providers’ features and benefits and is a pretty complete list (including SurveyGizmo, of course!).  It looks like they held a webinar too (unfortunately we missed out on it, [...]

We are holding a contest with a year Pro subscription to SurveyGizmo up for grabs. SurveyGizmo wants you to create a mascot for us with the Spore Creature Creator, and in return 1 winner will be chosen to receive a 1 year Pro account at no charge! The best part is that there is [...]

We sometimes get asked by new customers to help them “sell” SurveyGizmo into their company. Meaning, they are sold on us, but, others on staff are using some other online survey tool — one that makes this person crazy because it just can’t provide what we can — and they need what SurveyGizmo’s got. They [...]

Like last year and the year before that, I’m offering up the unofficial SXSW blogroll.
If you have a blog and want in on the fun, sign up for it here (scroll down to where it says “Join The SXSW Blogroll”).
Displaying the SXSW blogroll on your site
In the meantime, you can add the blogroll [...]

Thanks to everyone who attended last week’s webinar “Top Ten Survey Best Practices.” Here is the follow-up info we promised.
Slides in PowerPoint format:

Top Ten Survey Best Practices.ppt

Webinar Recording:

Streaming Flash Player
Windows Media – 37 meg – right-click to Save as…
AVI – 83 meg – right-click to Save as…

Selected Q&A
What is a good way [...]