How To Create an Online Poll: These 5 Services Will Help You With That

Since you were able to speak, you asked a lot of questions and made countless decisions since then. Some were simple, some weren’t. Today, you still want some answers and hear about what others think, right?

One great way to get some information on a topic is to use polls. Whether it be a simple show of hands in deciding which game you’ll play with your friends, to a more serious polls in which your vote goes to a future president. Luckily, you don’t have to raise hands behind your screen, as there are many great online polling tools you can use to get information you need.

Google Docs

Did you know you can use Google Docs, popular free office suite, to create polls? The results are collected into a spreadsheet where you can get even more information if you’re good with data mining. Just click the Create button and choose Forms to open up a form builder where you’ll set up your form, add some design and of course – the questions.

Once the poll ends, Google Docs will create some pie charts and bar graphs for you as well.

PollDaddy

PollDaddy is one of the best tools for creating easy online polls. Creating surveys, polls, quizzes and ratings has never been so easy and intuitive as with PollDaddy, which has some other features like powerful reporting & filtering, customizing the look of the poll and it’s highly integrated with WordPress (because both PollDaddy and WordPress are made by the same company, Automattic), so if you need a poll for your blog, PollDaddy is the way to go.

There are also iPhone and iPad apps which allow you to take surveys right on the spot; if you’re conducting a survey at a city’s main square, open up PollDaddy’s iPad app and everything will be synced to your online account.

TwtPoll

TwtPoll is highly integrated with Twitter, so Twitter users will be able to leave comments as well as log in with their Twitter account. Once you create a poll, you’ll be given the option to publish a free poll which will hold up to 400 votes, or you can choose one of the paying options to get even more options.

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With TwtPoll, you can create polls (one question) or surveys, where you can set up multiple questions and pages for the people you’ll interview. Despite the name, TwtPoll polls can be shared on any social network and you don’t need to have a Twitter account to vote.

JotForm

JotForm is a nicely designed WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) form editor. With it you can create beautiful forms, modify fonts and colors of the poll elements and even enable file uploads if you need them. Once completed, you’ll get a URL to your poll which can then be sent to your audience.

Free version of JotForm allows 100 submissions per month and offers 100 MB of free file space.

Facebook Questions

Last, but not the least is Facebook with its Questions which were introduced a while back. You can create a simple poll and let other users add their answers as well. Combine this with the ability to comment on the poll and share it with your friends and you’ve got a potential viral hit, not to mention the amount of data you might get using Facebook Questions.

What tools do you use when creating a poll?