You asked for it: MySpace Surveys

We couldn’t help but notice all the searches for myspace survey functionality. So here it is — surveys you can embed in MySpace (or other difficult CMS systems)!

Want to see it in action? Here is an example of our contact form embedded into a MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/SurveyGizmo. You can create contact forms, surveys, newsletter signups, fun quizzes — anything. We’d love to know what you do with this feature, so get a survey up and post your results to this blog!

Instructions: To use this feature, design a survey in SurveyGizmo (some myspace design tips are listed below). Then, just like normal, click on the “Launch” link (or promote if your survey is already launched). A new option has been added to the bottom of this screen called “Option 3 - MySpace, yada yada yada”. This will give you the css and html to paste into your MySpace profile.

Some helpful tips:

• Don’t use complicated survey questions on the first page — good news, subsequent pages are totally fair game! This is because anything powered (or enhanced) by javascript won’t work on myspace — go figure.
• Here are the ‘Safe’ questions: Instructions, Images, Radio buttons, Checkboxes, Text fields, Essays, File upload forms, Contact questions and tables of the aforementioned.
• If you want, redirect them back to your blog or profile when they are done. You can do this by placing a URL redirect action on the thank you page.
• Lastly, this survey-publishing option doesn’t track abandons the way our other surveys do (a quirk of bypassing our initial page). So, don’t expect that data for myspace surveys.

Taking this feature to the next step: Before you ask, yes, it has occured to us that this feature might lend itself to embedding surveys in HTML emails, too. We suggest you don’t jump the gun on *that one* unless you can afford some time for testing. In the next few weeks we will do our own testing of email-embedded surveys and let everyone know how it turns out.

Good luck with your surveys!

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