Cool new technology: Google Doc Forms

This week I've learned about a cool tool called Google Doc Forms. Google Docs are a really cool tool that comes with a gmail account. It is basically online storage for your documents. The cool thing about it is you can create, edit, share these documents with other people and even see edits happen live. Google docs supports spreadsheets, text documents, and presentations. I've been using these for a while. For example, at church I'm suppose to help collect information about visits made each month along with 3 other guys who help collect this information. We have a Google doc spreadsheet that we all have access to and just go into every month and update. It is so simple and easy to use.

So I recently tried out some new features of Google Docs- called "forms". A Google Doc Form will allow you to create an online form and then have the data that is put into the form populate a spreadsheet. This has all kind of implications and uses. Below is an example of a form I created. The thing that is great is it took me almost no time to create this (seriously- like less than 3 minutes).

If you want to know the basics of Google Docs, here is a great video:



Here is a quick video I made on using google forms:

Starting my blog up again

I've decided to start up my blog again. I'm not sure that anybody besides me will find it useful, but I've just got too many things in my mind that I want to share with the world. I'm hoping it will be therapeutic to pause once in a while and reflect on some of the things going on in my life.

I've wondered what I should blog about. I kind of thought this blog should have a theme- probably something work related since Terrie does a great job blogging about family stuff. However, I'm going to leave this wide open. I might blog about the latest cool technology thing I've learned about lately and the next maybe something about the latest movie I've watched in my theater room. So . . . here goes.