Yes, you heard that correctly, we just redid and revamped our SurveyGizmo Apple Dashboard Widget.

What does this mean for you?

The Survey Widget is now faster and sleeker, so you’ll be able to keep track of your survey response counts instantly when you’re in front of your computer (as long as you have an internet connection, of course).

The widget lets you view how all your surveys are doing throughout the day. With an easy to use drop-down menu to switch from survey to survey, you can keep track of response counts, completed surveys, partially completed surveys, and the number of disqualified respondents.

To install the widget, just head over to our Survey Widget page and click on the install file.

We know you love having as much information as possible at your fingertips, and we hope that these new improvements to the Survey Widget for Apple Dashboard will help bring it to you even faster.

As always, we love hearing from our users about how they’re using our product, so if you’ve used the widget in the past and are upgrading to the new widget now, or if you’re just trying the new widget for the first time, we would love to hear about in the comments!

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.

For those of you who unfamiliar with the term, a widget is a mini-application that runs on the Apple OS X Dashboard. You can toggle to your dashboard by pressing the F12 key. Try it! Your Mac comes with a few basic widgets that tell the time, stocks and local weather. Plus, developers around the world are creating some wonderful tools that have integrated widgets — like SurveyGizmo!

About Our Survey Widget

Our groovy little widget is great for keeping an eye on your surveys without keeping a pesky browser window open. We show your basic stats right on the widget, so you can watch the numbers grow as people fill out your survey. In Progress surveys turn into Completed, Abandoned, or Partially Completed. You also have handy links to Create a New Survey or Edit, Reporting, and Preview an existing one.

How to hook your widget up

The only requirement is a Mac with OS X 10.4 (Tiger). (PC users stay tuned for our Yahoo Konfabulator Widget for the PC)

STEP 1
You need to first go to your account screen and click to enable your user API Key. If you don’t have an account, you can create a free account (which has everything a casual surveyor needs — and it’s yours forever).

STEP 2
Download the widget from our widget page or from the Apple site. Save the zip file to your desktop, then double-click the zip file to decompress it. You’ll see the widget appear next to or under the zip. Just double-click the widget itself to place the widget on your dashboard.

STEP 3
Now you’ll need your API key (that thing you took from your account page). Copy and paste your key into the widget configuration screen. (You get the config screen by clicking the “i” on the bottom right hand corner of the widget).

You’re Ready to Rock ‘n Roll!

Yep, that’s all there is to it. Start cranking out those surveys, polls and quizes. If you make a really amazing survey or template (or get stuck trying to do something amazing), let us know! We are dying to see what creative things the Mac community can come up with! Our PC friends seem to like running consumer research surveys, but you can so so much more with SurveyGizmo. Go show ‘em how it’s done!

Special Thanks

Our friends over at wdgty, Stuart and Stephan, did a great job with the widget and we wholeheartedly recommend them. If you are looking for a widget to go with your own web business, try them out. Thanks, guys!

Permanent link to the SurveyGizmo Widget:

SurveyGizmo Widget Page

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Windows PC Users

Sadly, the PC platform doesn’t have native support for widgets, but the free Yahoo Konfabulator is similar. Let us know if you’d like to see a Konfabulator widget.

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