You know how to use Gmail for Email Polls but here’s an even better solution for conducting polls among a group.
Called Notifu, this new service lets you create polls online and users can cast their votes via email messages, SMS, voice mail or IM clients including Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live and AOL.
Problem: Say you are planning a movie this weekend with friends and like to know about their availability.
The problem is that some friends are active on IM, some use only email while the rest stay offline and prefer the good old phone for communication.
Solution: With Notifu, you can create a unified poll on the web and send it all your friends in one go irrespective of the medium they use for communication. So if someone prefers Yahoo! Messenger over email, you can send him the question directly on his Yahoo! IM.
Poll Question inside Google Talk
Poll Question inside Email
People can simply reply to the email or IM message and cast their vote. Notifu collects all the responses and will create a simple report of responses as as well as a list of people who haven’t replied yet. Simple yet awesome tool.
Related: Conduct Live Polls via Text Messages
Update: Notifu may be a good choice for conducting polls via SMS messages because it probably the only free SMS polling service that works outside US as well (including India).
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/create-quick-polls-via-email-sms-im/5164/
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Reader Comments
You have shared really a great service. Thank you very much for that.
But it lacks some great features. Like sharing the results. or notifying to all participants about the results during survey and/or after completion of it.
Is there any other similar kind of service with more advanced options?
Written by Riz on 10.31.08
Thanks for the post about Notifu.
Riz, we are just getting started with Notifu and we do plan to add the feature you mention (sharing / notifying the participants of the results).
Written by Kent Johnson on 10.31.08
The SMS and voice parts of this service are no longer free. It is still worth using though.
Written by Landon on 11.12.08
Now notifu isn’t as good as it was cause it isn’t free, bt it is still worth a try !!
Written by Shreedhar on 02.07.09