Create a survey in minutes from google drive

Have you setup any survey or poll in your blogger before? if you did, how much time you spent to set it up in your blogger. Today I learned a way to get it done in minutes and it is free, thank to the Google.
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First you need to follow the google instructions to enable the google drive, then you should be able to see the following.

You can create different kind of documents, here we want to focus on creating a form which can be used for simple survey in your blogger and have interaction with your reader.
The following step by step process demonstrate how you can simply set that up.

Step1: click on "Create", select "Form" from pull_down menu.

Start to setup your questionnaire for the survey, refer to the following figure.
1. Write your subject and purpose
2. Have more detail description for supporting the subject and purpose.
3. Start to add your question
4. Select what type of answer and how it can be done, for example, a blank for Text entry, pull-down menu, multiple answers for selection…
5. Check if this answer must be answered

Here you can see the example for setting different type of answers.

Step2: After adding all your questions, it is time to generate HTML code which will be used to embed in your web page.

Click on “More actions” on up-right corner, select the "embed" as the following figure, you should see a window popup with HTML code.

Copy the HTML code by press CNTL-C for later usage.

Step3: Select“Edit confirmation” under the "More actions", you can configure the response message to notice the reader he or she has completed the survey.

Edit the confirmation response as following and save it.

Finally, Save the form you just create, at this point, you have completed setting up the survey.

Go back to Dreamweaver, find the right location to copy the HTML into the source code, you should see something like “<iframe src="https://docs.google.com...</iframe>”, press F12 to test the result.

You should be able to start testing and answer the questionnaire in your web page, then submit it.
How you think so far? does this process for creating questionnaire surprise you? here comes even more powerful tool, stay tune...

Now you may wonder where the data went, and how I can collect them and analyze.
Do not worry, Google has thought that out for you.
In your Google drive, you should see a file created and named by your header for questionnaire, see the following.

Click on it, you should see the data collected with excel format, and you can download the data to your computer, see the following.

I am not going explain how you can process your data and what tool you can use, you are the expert.

One more thing to mention here, you can setup the notification rules by going to “Tool” select “notification rules” as following.

What this function does is how you would like to be informed when any data about this form changed, see the following, this setting is pretty straight forward, it should not be a problem for you.

End of introduction, hope you enjoy it.

Putting Google+, Facebook, Plurk and Twitter all together

If you are a heavy user to all different type of community networks, and you have created user account for Google+, Facebook, Plurk, Twitter and weibo, you may wondering how I can reach all the accounts at once if you have post or message to send to your friends. Should I login to each account and send a post? that will be time-consuming and definitely will drive you crazy. Here is a good new, here is going to show you how you can put them all together.
We will target to complete the following networks integration, so that you send a message in Google+, the same message will be sent to other networks at almost same time.

Reminder: You can only configure all these integration on Google Chrome because the Plus Plurk only work on Google Chrome.

Test - publish post and google+ sharing

Go to "Posts and Comments" under the settings in Blogger administration
Configure the following to enable post sharing to google+

After you complete your post and publish, you should see the following window popup.
Write your recommandation and click share.

Go to your Google profile home page, you should be able to see your recommandation as well as your friends as following



Embed a google map onto your post

Locate a place you would like to embed in google map.

Click on "Create web link" icon as following.


Customize your own map by clicking "customize and preview".


A customization window open, you can configure you map size by change the width and height as following.

On the bottom of the window, there is HTML code, you need to mark the whole area and make a copy by  pressing  CNTL-C at the same time.

Go to Blogger administration, write your post, Before you want to copy the HTML code to embed the map you just copy, change to HTML mode first by click on HTML as following.


Copy the HTML code onto the article, it will looks like the following.


Switch back to Writer mode by click "Compose" mode as following.


Continue your writing, and publish the post when you complete.

Publish photo in Picasa to your google Blogger

In Picasa, select a photo you would like to publish and come along with it’s story.

On right side, you should be able to see the following.
Click on Blogger icon, system will bring you to edit mode with the photo presented.



After completing your story for the photo, and select the right blogger on top-right corner you would like to publish to.

You can publish the post right away, see the following.