Surveys
Surveys are useful tools to elicit everything from snapshots of opinions to considered evaluation feedback.
Online surveys can be designed to be interactive as well as easy to use, saving costs with mail and paper. A general or special sample of people can be invited by email or on a website to complete the survey.
An online opinion poll like those on NineMSN.com.au
can simply involve asking a single question and showing answers to date.
A more complex questionnaire may have open-ended questions or multiple choice questions.
You can either build a survey form especially for your website, or use one of the range of free and pay special-purpose websites that exist to run surveys.
More information
- Survey share offers online survey tools for nonprofits.
- Zoomerang offers customisable survey templates and a fee service is available for those who need more detailed analysis of survey results.
- An example of a free site is http://freeonlinesurveys.com/.
- A search for ‘surveys online’ will get a host of pay sites.
Low-cost option
- Use the service of www.surveymonkey.com to build complex surveys. This well regarded site provides a free and easy-to-use basic service, with extras available for a fee.