BetterMe.com: Honest Feedback, Anonymously
Give or get honest feedback anonymously with BetterMe.com.
One common problem in businesses is not knowing what coworkers or employees think about a subject. Sometimes the subject is fairly mundane, so you can just ask. When the subject is more sensitive though, either you or the people you intend to ask might be hesitant about discussing the subject openly. In the past, you might have asked people to write anonymous comments and put them in a comment box, but that still left many ways that you might find out who said what. Luckily, we now have a new online service that we can use instead: BetterMe.com.
BetterMe.com addresses these uncomfortable situations from both sides of the issue. It allows people to provide unsolicited, anonymous feedback and it allows people to solicit feedback from groups of people, who can then provide feedback anonymously. The service sends an email requesting feedback from the group of people you want feedback from and tells the recipients how many other people were sent the feedback request, so that they know how anonymous their answers are. After all, anonymous feedback from a single person is hardly anonymous. That safeguard is not bullet proof though because you could solicit feedback from a coworker, your spouse and 10 of your other email accounts. So, while the coworker thinks that they are 1 of 12 possible respondents, they’re actually the only real one. I know you’re ethical, so you wouldn’t do that, but theoretically someone else might.
So, if you need some feedback and think the people that you want the feedback from might be uncomfortable giving it directly, give BetterMe.com a try and get the feedback you need, anonymously.
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This seems to be a good way to give and take anonymous feedback about something. I always hated to write/type anonymous information about anything.