There are lots of ways to discover opinions and information from members/clients or other communities of interest on the web, and numerous tools for collating and analysing the collected data. These range from heavy duty commercial products, bespoke forms to free services. The list below is not a comprehensive directory but an introduction to some of the options open to Voluntary Sector groups on a budget.
- Snap Surveys - A comprehensive full featured product, but costly even with the 50% charitable discount. recommended by many professional evaluation services. They also host Snapshot Poll, a free service that enables you to publish and host single-question polls for your website.
- Survey monkey- widely used in the voluntary sector starts at free with limited functionality and advertising. Up to a 1000 responders plus ability to brand it yourself for monthly fee (see pricing). Reportedly very easy to set up and manage.
- Free Online Surveys - no information (if you have any experience of this product, please get in touch)
- Drupal - The Content management system this website is created with, allows the creations of numerous webforms and export of collated data to spreadsheet for analysi. See screencast on creating a webform. You'll probably need to be using Drupal as the CMS for your website, check out our Website Toolkit for more help on this.
- LimeSurvey - billed as the leading Open Source survey tool, you can download and host on your own server for free (your web host service may charge) or "pay per click" with LimeService. Again no experience of this too, contributions welcome.
Last but not least we have
- Bristol Online Surveys - This is the service used by Voscur to host most of it's own online surveys and evalution. The University of Bristol provide licences for Voscur,the Black Development Agency & Volunteering Bristol as part of it's commitment to the Bristol Voluntary Sector. Contact us if you would like to arrange to have access to this service.
