The service is amazingly hassle free. Just type in the poll question, enter the answers one per line (up to 20), customize the vote button, background color, width and height of the poll and then get the HTML code. During the entire process you can see the live preview of the poll right on that page. The results of the poll are shown on their site. No registration required at all.

Features:

• Instantly create online polls for your site.
• Enter a question and multiple answers.
• Customize the vote button, color, width and height of the poll.
• See the live preview while you create the poll.
• Free and no registration.

Check out Vorbeo @ www.vorbeo.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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While most quizzes and polls are taken on the site, Quibblo quizzes can be easily added to your profile on MySpace, Facebook etc. or your Wordpress / Blogger blog. Check out the demo video below.

Features:

• Free quizzes, polls and surveys created by users.
• Create your own quizzes or take quizzes by other members, view results on graph charts and compare your answers to others’.
• Search for quizzes or browse by tags and by subject categories (e.g. 2008 Election, American Idol, Dumb, Funny, Celebrity).
• View popular and top rated quizzes.
• Quizzes can be embedded into your favorite social networks and platforms including MySpace, Facebook, Wordpress, Blogger and others.
• Free, view and take quizzes without registration. Register to create your own quizzes.
• Similar sites: MyStuidiyo, ClassMarker and QToro.

Check out Quibblo @ www.quibblo.com

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Additionally you can search and browse polls created by other users, sort them by category, rate polls, leave comments and embed them on your webpages. Sign up to get started.

Features:

• Create free polls online and collect feedback.
• View detailed poll analysis including results chart, geographical distribution of recent poll takers and votes by country.
• Embed polls on your webpages, rate polls and leave comments.
• Similar websites: Polls Boutique, Poll Everywhere, Fotoll and PollJunkie.

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Using basic account you can create unlimited surveys with up to 30 questions in each survey. Most of the other services restrict this to 10 questions. Zoomerang also allows you to send the survey to up to 100 people and view the results online in real-time. However, the most important feature is the variety of templates ranging from educational to business to personal templates. Each template comes with pre-filled questions that you can choose to keep, edit or delete.

Main features:

• Create and conduct unlimited number of surveys.
• Choose from over 15 types of questions.
• Choose up to 30 questions.
• Send out your survey to 100 people.
• Create your survey in one of the 40 languages.
• Collect responses via email or a website.
• Design survey from scratch or from the templates.
• Free online support and user forum to answer your questions.
• Similar website: KwikSurveys.

Check out Zoomerang @ www.zoomerang.com (by Tehseen from RechargeYourMind.com)

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Furthermore, the site lets you search for polls, browse by them by category, view featured polls, meet and interact with other users.

Features:

• Create free polls online and get votes from people across the world.
• Add pictures, audio and video to your polls
• Search polls and browse them by category.
• View popular and featured polls.
• Filter polls option to narrow down your poll selection.
• Similar sites: KwikSurveys, Ask500People and Poll Everywhere.

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Moreover, ClassMaker allows you to create so called class rooms and assign different test to each of them. At the end, you can invite participant groups to desired class and track their test progress in one place. ClassMaker is a versatile online application and provides you with decent free account option. 

Feature overview:

• Create online tests and quizzes.
• Test types:  multiple choice, true/false, free text, short answer, fill in the blank, punctuation etc.
• Track and manage test results in one place.
• Invite upto 1000 learners to join take your tests.
• Create unlimited number of classes and manage them from one place.
• Assign different quiz tests to different classes.
• Instant results for you and your learners.
• Upload and add images to quizzes.
• Export quiz results.
• Set time limits on multiple-choice quizzes.
• Randomize multiple-choice questions and answers.
• Keep quizzes private or share them with others.
• Create quizzes in multiple languages.
• Premium account with more options also available, more details here.

Check out ClassMaker @ www.classmarker.com

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You can create 3 types of polls with Poll Everywhere:

(1) Multiple choice polls – “Choose your favorite color ?”. You define a list of possible answers. Graphs will display the results in real-time.

(2) Free text polls – “What is your name?”. Your audience can text in any answer. You can use it to gather feedback or identifying information, like names, age or ID numbers.

(3) Pledge polls – “Raise money for my non-profit” Receive pledges for donations to your non-profit from people via text messages. You can use pledge thermometer which shows live pledges to add excitement and encourage other people to pledge.

See a screenshot takes from a sample multiple choice poll:

Features:

• Create text message polls and see result update in real time.
• Free account lets you create as many polls as you like with audience limit of 30 votes
• Download polls as Powerpoint slides.
• Analyze results in Excel spreadsheet.
• Premium account with more options available, check price list.

Check out Poll Everywhere @ www.polleverywhere.com

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Ready surveys can be then shared via email or embedded on any online blog or profile page. Once the surveys are live you can track and monitor results online.

Features:

• Quickly create user surveys online.
• Create as many online surveys as you like.
• Customize color, text style, add background images etc.
• Share surveys by forwarding a link via email.
• Embed surveys onto your website or personal webpage.
• Manage sruveys from one place.
• Track and monitor survey votes online.

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How it works ?

As you can see in the screenshot above, it works in the following way :-

1. Create a poll with their built-in poll editor.
2. The audience can vote via cell phone or the internet.
3. As people vote, you get live results in Powerpoint or the browser.
4. Analyze results with their built-in tools and then you may also publish them onto the web.

Polls can be downloaded as Powerpoint slides and also published on your blog or website.

Poll Everywhere, although has many pricing plans, comes with a decent free option which can be used by small publishers and bloggers to create polls and get responses within their groups.

Check out Poll Everywhere @ www.polleverywhere.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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Alternatively you can also browse polls created by other users, vote on them and leave your comments.

Features:

• Create photo polls and invite your friends to vote and coment.
• Explore polls created by other users, vote and leave comments.
• Simple and easy to use.

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Features:

• Quickly create a poll and invite others to vote.
• Each poll gets its own web address that can be shared with others.
• Create as many polls and questions as you want.
• Poll types: multiple choice, yes/no, ranking or rating answers.
• Set to be notified when people respond to your polls.
• No registration required.

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CircleUp proposes an easy solution. You simply compile the question through their website, select the people it should go to and it handles the rest. You on the other hand can follow-up on the progress from their website.

How It Works:

1. Sign-up and create your free CircleUp profile.

2. Enter the question and provide all possible answers.

3. Select the group (or Circle) to whom you want to send the question. You can either select one of the contact groups (work, clients, soccer team, etc.) or individual email addresses.

4. Send your question.

5. Shortly after every group members receives a message (via email, SMS, IM client etc.) with the link where they can respond to and comment on the question.

6. All reasults are accumulated and organized on the one web page which can be shared with the group.

Features

• Ask questions to several people and get all replies sorted and organized on one webpage.
• Import contacts from AOL Mail, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, Plaxo, Outlook or other sources.
• Organize contacts into groups (Circles) and send questions to Circles.
• Share answers page with the conversation participants.
• View who havent’s respondend yet.
• Export results to a spreadsheet, convert to PDF document or print them out.
• Get a ‘Daily Result’ email delivered to your inbox once a day.
• Additional Tools: Ask questions directly from your NetVibes page, Outlook Toolbar, iGoogle page, etc.
• …

[Video] CircleUp Introductions and Demo

Check our CircleUp @ www.circleup.com

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99Polls Features

• Track, manage and edit created polls online.
• No word on the max. number of polls users allowed to create.
• Polls can include upto 9 possible answers.
• Style polls using different visual themes. You can also create your own theme.
• Option to activate / deactivate polls at any time.
• Make polls public (available to everyone) or private (avl. only to people you share it with).
• Organize polls using tags.
• Share polls with others by embedding them on your website (see below) or social networking profile.

[Demo] Embed polls on your website

Check out 99Polls @ www.99polls.com

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In case you wonder where Ask500People gets so much of exposure for selected questions, here is what they say: “We’ve made arrangements with several high-traffic sites to be able to display polls there when needed.”

Features List:

• Ask questions and express your opinion by answering questions from other users.
• Comment on and rate questions.
• Add additional answer options.
• Put an Ask500People widget on your website and let your readers vote on current questions.

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All Zoho Services

1. Zoho Writer: Web-based word processor.

• Create, access, edit, share, and collaborate on word documents online.
• Import existing documents from Microsoft Word (.DOC), OpenOffice(.ODT & .SXW), HTML, RTF, JPG, GIF and PNG files

2. Zoho Spreadsheets: Web-based spreadsheet processor.

• Create, Share spreadsheets with friends/colleagues. Publish documents online.
• Collaborative on spreadsheets online.
• Import/Export Excel files.

3. Zoho Show: Online Presentation Builder/Viewer.

• Embed your presentations in your blog or website.
• Import Microsoft PowerPoint(.ppt, .pps) or OpenOffice, Presentation(.odp, .sxi).
• Access, import, and edit presentations from anywhere.

4. Zoho Meeting: Web-based conferencing tool.

• Have a live meeting with your colleagues or friends.
• Embed meetings on your blog, website or any web page.

5. Zoho Notebook: Online Notebook.

• Create notes out of text, image, audio, video, etc.
• Share notes with colleagues. Flexible sharing options.

5. ZoHo Planner

• Create and Manage Todo’s online. Set and schedule reminders.
• Upload and store task related images and files.

6. Zoho CRM: Inventory Management, Sales & Marketing , Customer Support & Service, Reports & Dashboards

7. Zoho Creator: Create Online Database Applications

• Build powerful applications online.
• Create online form and embed them in your website/blog

8. Zoho projects: Web-based project management tool.

• Tasks & Milestones: Create tasks online, assign tasks to others, specify deadlines, etc.
• Calendar: View tasks, milestones & meetings all on a single page calender view.
• Reports: Create reports with Gantt charts for at-a-glance status of the projects.
• Time tracking: Track project duration.
• File sharing: Upload and manage files online.

9. Zoho Viewer: Web-based document viewer.

• Upload document and share it with others (via URL). No sign up required.
• Supported formats: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Adobe PDF, OpenOffice documents, OpenDocuments documents, etc.

10. Zoho Challenge: Create and Publish tests and surveys online.

11. Zoho Polls: Tool to create and publish online polls.

• Embed polls on your blog, website, or profile page.
• Browse user-created polls by tags.

12. Zoho Chat: Team chat. Embed chats on any website/webpage.

13. Zoho Wiki:

• Create, edit, and collaborate on wiki-style environment (using WYSIWYG editor).
• Keep modifications history for each page.
• Add unlimited number of pages and subpages.

14. Zoho start: One place to organize and manage all of your Zoho documents.

• Single page destination to create, edit, share and view all your documents.
• Organize documents into folders.
• Integrated search across documents, spreadsheets and presentations
• Know the web presence of your Zoho Chat contacts for easy collaboration.
• Switch between list and box views.

15. iZoho: Access and View documents from your iPhone.

16. Site 24×7: Website Uptime monitoring service

• Get Instant Email/SMS/RSS alerts if your website goes down.
• Reports: View website uptime performance over a period of time.

Additional Tools:

• MS Office plugin: Access and Edit your documents both online & offline
• Zoho QuickRead: Open web documents directly in Zoho (Firefox, Internet Explorer).
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• Outlook Plugin: Synchronize Contacts, Tasks & Calendar.

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Check out Example Poll below:

Feature Overview

• Create polls and embed them anywhere on the web. Display poll stats once user votes on it.
• Browse polls from others by category (Arts, Computer, Music, Education, etc.) or popularity (most popular, features, etc).
• Poll Features: tag and organize polls, select poll duration, create polls in different languages, etc.

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