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With a developing database that surpasses a net of 500,000 individual users, globally; the growth of PollDaddy has exceeded all expectations — receiving outstanding growth in just a single month after its release to the public, as the result of social media and mass media publicity. PollDaddy provides an exceptional, easy-to-use, service that allows for the establishment of interpersonal communication; subjective to the diversity of the opinions of others. Ubiquitous as a web platform that enables the creation of opinion polls, for both personal and business use; PollDaddy also allows members to create user-generated surveys – expanding its features user-reviews and also an e-mail tool has currently been released — at current in the beta testing phase. In addition to attention by individuals, PollDaddy is currently being used by prominent enterprises; such as the illustrious technology blogs of TechCrunch and PCWorld, as well as well-known news leader Fox –- to name a few.  Operating on the objectives that meet the needs of the twenty-first century’s, revolutionized social media users PollDaddy is accessible on various mediums; included Wordpress, Myspace, Typepad, Blogger, personal websites, and include many more options in distribution. Offering something for everyone, developers have invested attention to the differing needs of personal and business, for individual users PollDaddy offers a standard free account; while in focus of the precise needs of modern enterprises, the site offers two annual selections – each specific to the number of responses retrieved. Said to be a bit of a deterrent, paid packages are only for those with business needs; again, those avid in social networking will not be charged with the differences of their individual needs.

Engaging those with an interest in modern-day socialization, PollDaddy’s free polling feature allows for unlimited operative poll creations as well as unlimited votes per poll –- keeping target distribution of data, a viewer will only be allowed to vote once per poll, as to not damage data output this is achieved by blocking IP addresses and cookies. Allowing for artistic uniqueness fourteen different skins per poll can be chosen from rather easy; also PollDaddy offers full support for those of another language, a single or multiple choice poll set up, and grants the user the ability to add customizations –- by adding graphics, text, and/or video to each poll. Based on the desires of each user polls can be closed at a certain date/time with results easily accessed online by XML, CSV, or with a convenient RSS feed subscription. Incomparable to its peers, PollDaddy, offers specific features; such as randomized answers, text data entry, an option for viewers to write in answers via ‘other’ field, options to show or to hide a polls results from others, and more –- all inclusive within free service accounts, a new feature on professional business accounts will track individual votes to reduce fraudulent voting. Be it poll or survey, PollDaddy’s widget’s appear within minutes onto a users page; with a shortened URL to hand out for a better populace –- each will include information about the author of the poll and also a link to their personal or business website or blog.

With a selection of skins, one can also choose to use CSS to create their own with the survey feature; a feature for friends, networking members, relatives, co-workers, staff, and/or customers to speak their mind and share their opinion, freely. Said to be the most advanced way to retrieve data, this powerful tool assists in the collection of information — on unlimited subjects and subcategories. Each user, skilled in HTML, can insert this directly into their survey; for the inclusion of photos, videos, charts, graphs, and anything that may be valuable to the survey — to gain a better result. Keeping up with twenty-first century modifications, a new advanced survey editor allows for the creation of multi page/question surveys; also allowing for the ease of creation with simple prompts. Each survey will include eleven question types, each with multiple options for a better distribution of data input; results are accessed in the same way as polling features and are subjective to the users full control –- allowing one to closing surveys at will or to set an ending date as well as the unique creation of a customized starting and ending page, with personalized text that creates a pleasant and more personalized practice.

Once a poll or survey is subjected to closure a line, bar, or pie chart will be given for results, that can easily be retrieved and saved; based on user selection. Increasing the method of social media communication each survey and poll will include feedback comments from users who have membership at the site; which can be moderated and limited in the settings per feature and per poll/survey. With this trade in information, a better result is also gained — proving powerful for impacting business and personal use. With the single limitation of 100 responses, enough to get an even distribution, per free account this may be the only limitation, as users have full control of their future creations. PollDaddy, like most twenty-first sites keeps users abreast to any downtime and/or changes via onsite blog; offering help and asking for feedback onsite as well –- for a remarkable data collection experience.

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