Tech for the Local Church
Are You Using Online Surveys?
Feedback is critical to leadership and making sound decisions. But most leaders don’t have the time to poll more than a few individuals for their take on an event or new idea. Keep reading for some great online survey tools!
Enter the Online Survey
You’ve all taken online surveys before. In a church setting, these surveys can be used for:
- first-time guest feedback
- Sunday service feedback from staff & key volunteers
- polling for community service ideas
- congregation health survey
- etc…
Free Services
If you’re already a Google Docs user, you have this built in. You can post unlimited questions and they include ‘skip logic‘: depending on their answer to a particular question, they can be taken to a different page. From your Docs homepage, just pull down the Create New menu and select Form:
Survey Monkey is a freemium service that allows you to post 10 questions, but lacks the ‘skip logic‘ that Google builds in for free.
Zoomerang is another freemium service that gives you 12 questions.
Get Busy
Now that you know that you can post surveys for free, how are you going to use online surveys for your church? What creative ways have you seen them used for churches?
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