Scherer Cybrarian » email http://www.scherercybrarian.com Ask Us We Know Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:29:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Polling power. http://www.scherercybrarian.com/blog/2007/05/30/polling-power/ http://www.scherercybrarian.com/blog/2007/05/30/polling-power/#comments Thu, 31 May 2007 01:46:00 +0000 admin http://www.scherercybrarian.com/scherer/?p=60 A reader asks: I frequently have the need to get input from my large and very geographically dispersed team. When I send an email out, I get all these answers in different formats and, frankly, it’s a pain in the neck. Any suggestions?

Why yes, thanks for asking!

You can poll your team (or customers or anyone!) without typing a single line of code. Some popular polling tools are Polldaddy, Quibblo, and Zoho Polls. All easy and all well-reviewed!

Still, our favorite is Wufoo. Wufoo is a very simple way to build amazing online forms. When you design a form with Wufoo, it automatically builds the database, backend and scripts needed to make collecting and understanding your data easy, fast and fun. You can send it by email or send the link. Seriously, this is easy.

Happy polling!

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How to turn a smart person into an idiot, in one easy
step

I’ve talked about the effects of overload on the quality of work, and
here are some great quotes that seem to agree:

Idiotic Workload
“You can turn a smart person into an idiot just by
overworking him”

Prof. Peter Capelli, The Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania [via Fortune]

And there’s more.

Read more here.

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