Today’s guest post is from Noah Coffey, a web developer/designer and creator of Tweetbrite.

One of my favorite uses for FormSpring is throwing together a registration form for a conference or event.  As the popularity of Twitter continues to explode, I’ve noticed more event registration forms asking for attendee’s Twitter user names. If you are organizing and event, wouldn’t it be nice if you could automatically tweet every time someone registers for your event?

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I’m very excited to dive into my new role as Marketing Specialist at FormSpring. I was first introduced to FormSpring by my brother, Ryan, who is the Support Specialist here. Having grown up the youngest of three boys and taking my fair share of lumps, I was somewhat apprehensive about working with my older brother. However, I’m happy to report that I read through the employee handbook and swirlies and pink bellies are a big “no-no” here at FormSpring. I just hope that Ryan read his handbook as well.

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Hi.  I’m Erica, one of the newest members (and yes, only female) to join the team here at FormSpring.  You can find me fulfilling various marketing and PR roles. I grew up in a tiny town known as Rushville, Indiana (Yes, THE hometown of Nascar driver Tony Stewart).  I graduated from the University of Indianapolis with a degree in Marketing. Before joining the FormSpring team I worked in marketing for a local HVAC manufacturing company and a small business marketing firm.

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I know most of our customers aren’t going to run out and throw up a funny image (LOL) blog, but hopefully you can still come away from this post with an idea or two for your own blog or business.  Want to host a contest where users have to send you an image of them using your product?  You can use a FormSpring form for that.  Need a simple (or complicated) contact form for your website?  You can definitely use a FormSpring form for that.  Want to start the next great LOLblog empire?  Hey, use FormSpring forms and don’t forget to cut me in on the profits!

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FormSpring experienced an outage this morning from approximately 7:48 AM to 8:05 AM EST.  We experienced no data loss.  Our load balancers went down, cutting off traffic, so forms could not be built, viewed or submitted.  As of 8:05 AM EST all forms are back up and operating normally.

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One question I often hear is, “How do I insert my tracking code, such as Google Analytics, into my form?”  I did a blog post last year telling you how to embed basically anything into a form using a Section, but now we have Description Area fields as well, which can be even more useful for embedding things like videos, widgets, tracking codes, etc.

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Extreme Makeover Home Edition is the popular ABC television show that takes on the monumental task of building a home for a family in need. They are coming back to Central Indiana and Hallmark Homes has been chosen as the home builder for the project. FormSpring has been asked to participate in this great event by donating our application to Hallmark Homes and providing an easy way to allow people to volunteer, donate and to be spectators during the filming of the show.

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We’ve been getting quite a few requests recently for international translations of our error messages, buttons, and other places where text is used but can’t be edited by the form owner. We are happy to announce that the wait is over, and you can now translate this text into 12 different languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish, and Portuguese. We may add additional languages in the future if the demand is there.

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While we allow pre-population of form fields, using the JavaScript embed method while pre-populating fields is a bit inflexible by default. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could pre-populate fields in an embedded form via the query string (mimicking the behavior of non-embedded forms)? This has been a popular request recently, so I have written a simple, custom “JavaScript Embed” method that does just that:

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SaaSListing.com is a professional listing service that offers an extensive list of the best Software as a Service companies. FormSpring was recently listed and we thought this service might be of interest to our readers.

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