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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Crowdbooster (discontinued)

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ACrowdbooster was a tool to measure the success of Twitter and Facebook posts, with visualizations to track retweets, and track potential impressions created, likes, comments, and how many shares a Facebook post has received. Crowdbooster is no longer available.

    $9

    per month

    Slido

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ASlido is an audience interaction platform that helps users to get the most out of meetings and events by crowdsourcing top questions and engaging participants with live polls and quizzes. From internal communications professionals to team leaders, conference organizers, and individual presenters, Slido can be used by those looking to enable open conversation at a live or virtual meeting. Slido works with popular video conferencing and presentation platforms and integrates with Microsoft…

    $49

    Pricing
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)Slido
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Engage (one-time)
    $49.00
    Engage (EDU annual)
    $72.00
    Professional (EDU annual)
    $120.00
    Engage (annual)
    $144.00
    Professional (one-time)
    $199.00
    Professional (annual)
    $720.00
    Institution (EDU annual)
    $720.00
    Premium (one-time)
    $999.00
    Enterprise (annual)
    $2400.00
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)Slido
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$144 per year
    Additional Details—Additional users are extra $100.00 - $600.00
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    Community Pulse
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)Slido
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    68 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    60 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    67 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    41 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    49 Answers
    Features
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)Slido
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Crowdbooster (discontinued) and Slido
    Feature
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Slido
    9.1
    8 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.18 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings9.17 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Crowdbooster (discontinued) and Slido
    Feature
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Slido
    9.1
    7 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Integrates with social media00 Ratings9.27 Ratings
    Record meetings / events00 Ratings9.45 Ratings
    Event registration00 Ratings8.74 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Crowdbooster (discontinued) and Slido
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Slido
    9.1
    9 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Live chat00 Ratings9.28 Ratings
    Audience polling00 Ratings9.29 Ratings
    Q&A00 Ratings9.29 Ratings
    Presentation Streaming00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Crowdbooster (discontinued) and Slido
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Slido
    8.7
    7 Ratings
    6% above category average
    User authentication00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings9.26 Ratings
    Audience Engagement
    Comparison of Audience Engagement features of Crowdbooster (discontinued) and Slido
    Feature
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Slido
    9.1
    35 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Quizzes00 Ratings9.635 Ratings
    Survey Features00 Ratings9.28 Ratings
    Gamification Features00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
    Engagement Tracking Tools00 Ratings8.77 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)Slido
    Small Businesses
    Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Score8.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Mentimeter
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    1-Social
    Score5.1 out of 10
    Mentimeter
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)Slido
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.5
    (67 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.5
    (9 ratings)
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Crowdbooster (discontinued)Slido
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Before recommending Crowdbooster, I'd want to know what goals they hope to accomplish with the software. Then I would want them to specifically identify what types of metrics would be most useful to their program. If they specifically need to report out on how many people in a certain location they reached, this isn't the right fit. If they are using other tools, there may be duplication. However, if they are currently using more budget-friendly solutions or just getting started with a new program, Crowdbooster is a perfect fit. It will help you to grow your program and is flexible enough to accommodate your needs.
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    Cisco
    How was it well suited to me? - The leaderboard and freedom to edit the quiz. The fastest finger quiz to announce the winner based on fairness. The ease of login through QR Scanner. Also, it did not pinch my pocket at all. The best part is this $25 earning opportunity via feedback :-). And the list goes on... The less appropriate part was mentioned earlier in ways that I see improvements with Slido, coming to utilize Slido everywhere and in various ways. Overall, I love the AI suggestions.
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    Pros
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    • Timed social media posts - Crowdbooster provides the opportunity to schedule social media posts allowing you to work on other important social media tasks.
    • Simply beautiful tracking - There are millions of ways to measure social media impact. Crowdbooster offers the most important and relevant measurements in simplified charts..
    • Great UI - Crappy UI = crappy experience. Crowdbooster's UI is easy to navigate. It won't take months to learn where all the buttons are.
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    Cisco
    • Slido integrates well with Microsoft PowerPoint which is very much useful for us.
    • The post poll dashboard reports are very much insightful.
    • Shareable links are created easily with Slido. Also, this saves a lot of time and manual effort for us.
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    Cons
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    • The ranked order of twitter followers and the number of "tweet impressions" did not help that much. Those "tweet impressions" were not really an estimate of how many people were actually reading my tweet. It was simply a sum of followers of the person retweeting a tweet and the sum of all followers from a subsequent retweet of the initial retweet. All this told me was the best case scenario I could expect if ALL followers of a person that retweeted saw my tweet. This is not a true measure of "twitter footprint" – since the “signal to noise” ratio in Twitter is very low.
    • There was no system in place to track "clicked links" for links embedded in tweets and/or facebook wall posts. Hootsuite did a good job of this – but only for twitter.
    • The list of recommended times to tweet were always "on the hour" (i.e. 10 a.m, 1 p.m.). Never were the times ever at "half past the hour" etc. An independent study that I did on my own using Google Analytics (and campaign links using google's URL builder) helped me determine that my optimal "Tweet time" during the week is 3:30 p.m. ET. More importantly, the recommended times seemed to be roughly the same on the weekends - which I find strange given that social media behavior does change on the weekends.
    • Occasionally, in my facebook ranked table of "loyal fans", I would see people in there that had not "liked" or "commented" on a post for months at a stretch and the "look back" period of the table was only around 7 days or so. Hence, I occasionally had to question the accuracy of that table.
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    Cisco
    • I miss the Slack integration; they used to have this and they deprecated it in the last year or so.
    • I believe they have a nice integration for PowerPoint, would be nice if they had something similar with google slides since that is what we typically use internally.
    • We use the word cloud feature often and sometimes answers seem to get lost (as in don't show up at all) on the screen. for example, an answer will be there, then as more answers come in it disappears, and when we get to a certain threshold of answers it somehow pops back up again. It's not the worst but sometimes someone will ping me that their submission didn't make the word cloud and they're bummed.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Simple to use and a great value for what it offers. It has a simple but clean interface and it provides fantastic historical data you can use to measure your efforts online. By using a tool like Crowdbooster, you can see what is working with your audience and what isn't. From there, you can start tweaking your strategies
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    Cisco
    It gives High engagement of audience or trainees during live workshops and easily connect with other software. Ease of use for both participants and host for live interaction and workshops. Since it doesn't require any app to download and can be used via browser. It understands the issue of users and gives updates time to time.
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    Usability
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    I found it fairly intuitive and easy to use. The information is laid out cleanly, and the most important information appears at a glance on the home page. However, I have worked with other users who had a hard time switching between platforms and identifying where other information was buried. It's not always clear that something is a clickable button! The option to export results is also a bit buried, and not integrated with the date range option.
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    Cisco
    Overall, it is a handy tool. We do not use it too often in meetings; we started using it creatively for quizzes and Q&A with radio/TV audiences. Producers or Sponsors often explicitly request the option to include this particular type of interaction, and we are happy to do so. It helps that the setup is easy, so is copying events, etc. I sometimes miss Switcher (for our live events), but I understand the reasons it was phased out
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
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    Cisco
    It is available all the time as it doesn't create issues while using.
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    Performance
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    Cisco
    It's great working and doing collaboration. Require more working on page reloading
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    I do not think it is as supported as it once was when it first arrived on the social media scene. It is an older platform whose main functionality may have already ran its course.
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    Cisco
    I had to use the support for this tool only once. The response was very rapid, very professional and fulfilled my needs immediately. Online support services are sometimes advertised only to lure people into buying the product but and non-existent or difficult to use afterwards. Not with Slido. This was not an automated chatbot and the direct contact really helped me
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    In-Person Training
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    Cisco
    It was very helpful knowing the software and its features.
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    Online Training
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    Cisco
    I find that training is very informative as it helps understanding the software usages and implementation. It gives the usgaes area and how to create gamification and live Q&A section so that you can use in live team meetings and workshops. It is very useful in training and webinars where a large pool of people are there.
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    Implementation Rating
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    If you can demo a free trial, that is definitely the best way to see if this will fit your program's specific needs.
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    Cisco
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    It is a platform that is singularly focused. It does not have a lot of the additions that come stock with other platforms such as robust reporting or deeper insights past schedule times. It is also a stand-alone platform and a lot of its primary functionality can be found in more encompassing platforms.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    I find Slido a bit easier to use than Poll Everywhere and other live polling software that I've used. While other software offers similar features, I've found that Slido's setup is a bit more intuitive and makes it easier to duplicate polls you've made for reuse. You get the most bang for your buck with Slido's basic plan compared to other polling software's basic tier.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    Cisco
    No everything is working perfectly fine
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    Scalability
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    Cisco
    It very scalable to large pool audiences during live townhall or meetings.
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    Professional Services
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    Cisco
    It's effective
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    Return on Investment
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    • Increased efficiency. I am able to generate useful snapshot reports in seconds. Particularly useful when you need answers fast (such as on a phone call).
    • Peace of mind. I am able to compare the data in Crowdbooster to what is exported from Facebook and Twitter.
    • Quicker, simpler evaluation of results. I am able to more easily compare impressions with engagement data to see what is working, and what should change. Particularly useful in day-to-day analysis.
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    Cisco
    • Slido helped us increase student engagement which resulted in improved academic results for our students
    • The Q&A feature helped us answer questions we received from parents and audeince during live events which resulted in increased admissions in our educational institution
    • The gamification of polls and surveys helped us attract a lot of audience and made the meetings interactive
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