How to set up online forms to collect information

Ever wanted to collect sign up information for your event through a website? Want to have a spreadsheet with all the delegate's details at your fingertips? Want to be able to download that information and use it again in the future? Sounds like you could use a Google Form, a great new tool that lets you quickly easily set up an online form, and even embed it in another website.

Google Docs is a set of online tools that includes a word processor, presentation software and spreadsheets. It can be used to keep your documents online so you can access them anywhere and it includes lots of features to help you share documents and collaborate with other people.

Now it has a neat new tool that you can set up a form to gather information and enter it into a spreadsheet through a web page. I came across it when someone who's running a conference I'm going to used it me to ask me which workshop I'm going to and whether I have any dietary requirements.

If you already have a Google account then it's very simple to set up, and if you don't then it may worth thinking about. It will beuseful for anyone with any sort of administration role, whether it's booking places at a traing workshop, collecting personal contact details as people register for feedback collecting feedback after it.

Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information