“Right! Now let’s have a proper screencast!”

You see, yesterday, I ran a little survey on Awesome Mustache to gauge the reaction of the Twitterverse to Chris Brogan’s recent face shaving. Admittedly, this is a silly reason to run a survey but it was better than musing about “Twitter Authority.”

As it was a silly thing, I wasn’t going to pay a nickel to collect the data. I didn’t want to install any software either. So, I decided to use the Forms feature of Google Docs.

When you create a form in Google Docs, you can embed the form in a web page, email it, or use the standalone page to collect responses. Responses are stored in a Google Docs spreadsheet and there is also a nice little summary report available complete with charts. This was perfect for my needs.

Here is the form embedded in a post on Awesome Mustache and here are the survey results, sliced up in my follow-up post.

After this went out, I received a few questions about creating the survey, so I whipped up this little screencast demo using ScreenFlow on my Mac. Sorry if it isn’t the most polished of demos but I think you’ll find everything you need to jump into Google Docs Forms and make your own poll or survey:

*Go full screen on this so that you can see the menu choices and such.