Guidebook vs. Tripleseat and Gather

Most of our meetings are too small to bother using it but it is great for our larger workshops. If you have a complex schedule or agenda it is better than a paper agenda and allows you to adjust changes live in the agenda during the meetings. We only use it a few times a year because we only have a few larger meetings.

Incentivized

It is not great for adding images to promote events as the images have to be of a certain size and this size is often difficult to manage. The program also doesn't differentiate very clearly between past and upcoming events so when you search it is difficult to decipher which events were from years ago and which are recent/upcoming.

• Provides live agendas
• Allows attendees to communicate through mobile phones with event staff
• Allows attendees to check in to break out sessions of their choice

Incentivized

• Calendar organisation
• Automatic uploads
• Detailed information

• Sometimes we have had issues with it not updating our changes very quickly and while at a conference that can be problematic.
• I have had difficulty making edits or changes from the mobile app so I have to go grab the computer to fix something.
• Some attendees have had issues downloading and logging in depending on which mobile phones that they are using. It may be operator error.

Incentivized

• Slow uploading
• Image uploading issues
• Hard to edit events enmasse

We use both but for completely different reasons. We use Guidebook to manage our attendees and communicate with them during large workshops. We use Airtable as a spreadsheet type database for tracking things.

Incentivized

• None really as we are a non profit and these meetings we use it for are free

Incentivized

• ROI is hard to decipher as the financial aspect of the program is often difficult to use
• It is a good platform to manage everything in one place
• It helps largely with compliance to our brand for the company