PDFescape: An update to an awesome tool
If you don’t own Adobe Acrobat (standard full version starts at $299), working with PDFs can be painful. I’ve written before about PDFescape, my all-time favorite PDF tool, which allows you to add comments to PDFs, actually fill out forms (even if forms aren’t enabled) and lets you do some modest editing.
With Adobe Reader’s new release, you can now add comments and share PDFs much easier (thank goodness!), so you might not need PDFescape as much as you used to, but they’ve included more features that I love.
Here’s a quick overview of PDFescape…
Poll Everywhere: Free Audience Response System
Monday I’m speaking for the Western Association of Chamber Executives, and during our webinar dress rehearsal, the coordinators told me about Poll Everywhere.
Poll Everywhere is a free/low-cost replacement for the very expensive audience polling devices. Instead of handing out devices that connect to a man behind the curtain who creates a chart of results for the audience to see, a speaker can ask the audience to text their choice of responses from a poll he’s displaying, and the results are instantly communicated to a dynamic PowerPoint slide he can show. The system integrates with Twitter, and people can vote from the web as well.
It’s free for up to 30 responses, and darn cheap after that. Plus there’s no long-term commitment, so you can go to the highest level for a one-time event then go back to a free account.
Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System | Poll Everywhere.
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SurveyMonkey.com: Cheap and easy web surveys
by Beth on July 7, 2009
in Beth Favorite, Free, Low-Cost, Mac, PC, Web-Based, Worth Paying For
No less than three Cheapskate Freelancer readers recommended SurveyMonkey as “worth the money” in the June Giveaway (don’t miss this month’s giveaway — register now!).
SurveyMonkey lets you design surveys easily using more than a dozen question types. I’ve created simple forms for feedback from my clients as well as elaborate surveys with custom skip logic, graphic and customized filters.
The free version gives you 100 responses per survey and up to 15 questions. But, as the Cheapskate Freelancer readers pointed out, for just $19.95 a month you get a whole host of other useful features. Well worth the cost.
SurveyMonkey.com – Powerful tool for creating web surveys. Online survey software made easy!.
