Doodle

Doodle is a fast and easy way to schedule a meeting or ask a single question to a group of people on-line. I've covered this in Connect sessions and in-person trainings, but never on the blog, and thought I would because it's such a useful tool. You don't even need to register with Doodle, just go to their website (http://doodle.com/)choose which kind of poll you want to conduct - schedule a meeting time or ask a question - and then type in your question and answer options. Doodle returns a URL that you email out to the folks you want to poll. It records the results, and you make your decision accordingly.

Lots of options exist: single or multiple answers, hidden answers (so respondents can't see how others voted), and commenting.

Below is a screenshot of a sample poll. Looks like the consensus is fish.