Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Google Docs as a form and database management system

There are many online services that provide the functionality to collect/organize/query information. Even though they go by different names and functionality they more or less provide the same service, that being to:
1. collect information over the web via a live link embedded in a site or emailed
2. provide a form to ease the entering of information from multiple users
3. organize the information in a spreadsheet housed on the service provider's web server
4. permission based access to view/edit/download the information

Examples include Survey Monkey, Wufoo Forms and Google Docs and there are many others. Differences might include limitations on space allocations, # of forms, etc. before being bumped out of the free level to various paying levels. So far the best bang for the buck appears to be Google Docs.

Google Docs:
size limitations

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