CommunityPanel is an online network benefiting both residents and municipal councils by soliciting input on community needs and issues on a regular basis. From the For Residents page . By participating in council surveys, you get to have your say on a range of important community topics such as, how public space is used, council services, greening and environmental issues, emerging technologies and developments, transportation, rates and taxes and much more. […] After signing up, you will get sent an invite to participate in anywhere from 2 to 4 survey’s a year about important council issues, including budgets, strategic plans, community innovations and satisfaction surveys. From the For Councils page : Community Panel provides Councils with the opportunity to access rigorous, scientifically tested commercial market research tools that have been validated by leading academics. The online panel approach is quickly becoming the standard for commercial applications, due to the quick turnaround and flexibility in the types of questions asked, especially when compared with computer-assisted telephone interviews. […] What tools can I use? Community Panel gives Councils standard measurement tools, such as Likert scales or “pick any”, but we also offer some more interesting ways to elicit community sentiments. Hot Spot : Hot spot allows Councils to embed images, such as maps of an area, to elicit responses from respondents when they might not have the words to express exactly what they mean. For instance, asking the community which parks they use might not mean much unless they can show you exactly which one they’re talking about. Pick, Group & Rank : Ranking questions are a popular and easy way to quickly sort the wheat from the chaff. Our easy-to-use interface also allows respondents to sort items into categories. Rank Order Slider : It can be useful to make trade-offs explicit. When community members have to think about giving up one thing in order to take advantage of another, we can really begin to see how their value structures work. Slider type questions allow us to do this quickly and easily. This project is joint-initative with the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, University of South Australia and five South Australian councils – City of Tea Tree Gully, City of Burnside, City of Unley, City of Holdfast Bay and City of Campbelltown.
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Online survey solution by Cologne, Germany-based Globalpark AG.
From the about page : EUSurvey is an online survey management system for creating and publishing forms available to the public, e.g. user satisfaction surveys and public consultations. Launched in 2013, EUSurvey is the European Commission’s official survey management tool. Its main purpose is to create official surveys of public opinion and forms for internal communication and staff management, e.g. staff opinion surveys and forms for evaluation or registration. EUSurvey provides a wide variety of elements used in forms, ranging from the simple (e.g. text questions and multiple-choice questions) to the advanced (e.g. editable spreadsheets and multimedia elements). The application, hosted at the European Commission’s Department for digital services (DG DIGIT ), is available free of charge to all EU citizens. EUSurvey can be accessed from: (https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey) Built at DG DIGIT and funded under the ISA programme, EUSurvey is fully open-source and is published under the EUPL licence. The source code can be downloaded from the Commission’s Joinup pages: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/eusurvey/home EUSurvey’s user interface is available in all official EU languages.
From the website: Maptionnaire is a SaaS for creating your own map-based questionnaires and civic participation platforms easily. Use Maptionnaire to: - Create map-based questionnaires for engaging people into highly structured research or open brainstorming. - Easy data analysis and reporting; the results can be published online in the service.
MetroQuest is a public engagement survey software allowing municipalities and planning agencies to better communicate proposals with stakeholders and collect their input. Each MetroQuest site serves as a survey with 4-5 preset screens from options such as welcome, wrap-up, priority ranking, scenario ranking, visual preference, image rating, map marker, project selection, budget allocation, funding balance, vision statement, tradeoffs, stategy rating, and standard survey. More info about the preset screen options and opportunities to test them out can be found here . MetroQuest can be used during events, at kiosk stations or on the web. It is not necessary for users to sign in to access to site, done so in order to remove barriers to participation. If desired, survey creators can add a closing screen asking for demographic and contact information. MetroQuest surveys can support multiple languages specified with a language toggle. Once survey responses come in, survey creators have access to a dashboard that allows them to monitor, analyze, and visualize responses. MwtroQuest is based in Vancouver, BC (Canada).
Microsoft Forms is an online survey, quiz and poll creator, compatible with all browsers with customizable themes and question branching. Form and quiz templates can be shared with others for team collaboration. Real-time collected responses are automatically evaluated with the built-in visualization function. Data can be exported to Microsoft Excel for further analysis. A brief step-by-step from Microsoft Support : Step 1: Sign in with your Office 365 school or work credentials and create a new formor quiz Step 2: Adjust settings for your form or quiz Step 3: Send your form or quiz to others and collect responses Step 4: Check your form results or quiz results An in-depth guide (with images) to create a form can be found here . The number of responses that can be received by Microsoft Forms is capped at 5,000. Microsoft Forms comes as a part of Office 365 education or Office 365 commercial packages.
From the website : The Remesh platform uses machine learning to understand and engage groups of people with real-time conversation. This is achieved by allowing a single moderator to converse with a group as if they were a single intelligence. Beyond inline conversation, the group’s opinion on every response is collected, analyzed, and presented in real time. Users begin by scheduling a session, identifying a sample audience, and preparing questions prior to the live discussion. Data extrapolated from the conversation is used to generate a deeply queryable set of data—a series of knowledge graphs that contain the totality of the responses from the group and what each member thought of those responses and using the knowledge graphs, we generate a simple interactive data panel (something that a non-data expert can use) that automates the heavy lifting normally associated with qualitative research including the filtering & segmentation of results. The technology offers the benefits of both qualitative and quantitative insights. That is, there is no sacrificing statistical significance for deep qualitative understanding. Remesh Inc. was founded in 2013 and is currently based in New York. Their mission is “to make engaging with and understanding a group of people fast, informative and accurate.”
According to the product overview page: SelectSurvey. NET , our just-released ground-up rewrite of our ASP survey software, is written in C# and source code is available to purchase. Our . NET survey software offers all of the great features of SelectSurveyASP, the benefits and power of . NET technology, and a host of upcoming, highly requested, new features […]
From the company info page : Started in 1999, SurveyMonkey is an online survey tool that enables people of all experience levels to create their own surveys quickly and easily. Every day, SurveyMonkey gives thousands of people the feedback they need to make more informed decisions, including more than 80% of the Fortune 100. SurveyMonkey’s offices are located in Portland, Oregon and Menlo Park, California.
From the website: We re-invented the old survey and made market research a breeze. Take a closer look to discover the new social, shareable and fun way to engage your community.