CircleUp - Ask a question to many people, get one summary report

Posted on April 3, 2007 at 6:03 pm

I just found a very interesting piece of software off of Digitial Inspiration, which by the way whips my butt in terms of content and good stuff, that basically lets you send an email to multiple people posing some sort of question, maybe like “Where does everyone want to go to for Spring Break” or “What’s the best software to solve this problem?”, etc.

Before if you had wanted to do this, you had to look at several emails that may or may not be in same email folder or if you’re in an office, you had to create a Word doc or Excel sheet and copy and paste everyone’s responses into the file. Well now you can use a program called CircleUP, which will send out your question to whomever you choose, collect all of the answers and present it to you in a nice summary format that you can either keep private or share with others. Also, people can respond without having to signup for anything, which is usually a deal-breaker for me.

This service can also be used as a RSVP service to setup a dinner party at your place or to setup a dance practice with a bunch of friends. Also, the Sender email address is your own and not something automatically generated by the software.