Collect information with Google Spreadsheets

Amazing new feature in Google Spreadsheets — it’s the perfect tool for informal surveying, and it’s a cinch to set up. Set up a spreadsheet, create a form that you can email (or post a link to) in a couple of clicks, and then literally watch the data populate your spreadsheet.

I’m planning on using this as a registration form for a client. Much easier (for me) than getting a form on the client’s website to populate a database, and then pulling the data back out. Hopefully there’ll eventually be a way to tie together Google Maps and Google Spreadsheets, so we can automatically map every registrant by ZIP.

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