Has anyone used SurveyMonkey?

SurveyMonkey seems like a nice fit for recommending to a prof for
his project and I was wondering if anyone had any experience with it.
Positive and negative comments would be appreciated.

Scott Gruber, International Studies

I’m a fan of surveymonkey.com. I’ve used it for two surveys and it works
great for any survey needs. The ability to offer multiple ways to share
the survey (link in web page, link for email, popup window) with your
audience is a plus point. I also like the exportablity of the data
results.

No faster way to get a survey up and running that I’ve run across. I’d
recommend it.

Annelie Chapman, Center for Digital Humanities

I don’t have any “production” experience with Survey Monkey, but I tried
setting up a survey about Ecampus to send to our instructors and came
across some limitations in the free version that made it awkward:

You can’t get the data exported out unless you use the paid version

You’re limited to, I think, 10 questions per survey in the limited
version.

I seem to recall (but this may not be right) that you also couldn’t
create questions that allowed the responder to click “all that apply”;
it was either one or another answer, but not several among many.

Instead, I went with phpESP, which I think is open-source. We have it
set up on our admin server (Linux box) and it worked very well.
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Tom Phelan, Social Sciences Computing

I also used survey Monkey very successfully. It is very
flexible and provides for very easy creation of complex survey formats.