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Slido

Score9.4 out of 10

154 Reviews and Ratings

What is Slido?

Slido 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 Teams, PowerPoint, and Google Slides.

Since its foundation in 2012, Slido boasts having been used at over 1.2 million events and engaged 55 million active participants. Slido has been adopted by high-profile clients including Asana, BBC, Oracle, and conferences such as SXSW, Web Summit, and Money20/20. Slido was acquired by Cisco May, 2021, to enhance Webex interactivity.

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Top Performing Features

  • Quizzes

    Assign assessments to determine audience metrics based on knowledge and skill set

    Category average: 9.5

  • Record meetings / events

    Meetings and webinars can be recorded for playback.

    Category average: 9.3

  • Integrates with social media

    Integrates with social media sites like Twitter and LinkedIn to promote meetings and webinars.

    Category average: 9.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Presentation Streaming

    Import your presentation and stream virtually, integrating engagement tools into your slideshow

    Category average: 8.5

  • Gamification Features

    Rank users, track points, and reward achievements in game-like structure to make engagement entertaining and gratifying.

    Category average: 8.5

  • User authentication

    Administrators can require users to authenticate their identities before joining a meeting.

    Category average: 8.3

Strong product for real-time engagement and feedback.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slido is the best and recommended solution for resolving low audience gathering in meetings, town halls, and seminars. After integration, audience growth accelerates as the experience improves and sessions become more productive by enabling polls, quizzes, Q&A, and surveys to gather real-time input from the audience. It boosts communication and participation. Helps improve decision-making and our services.

Pros

  • We can control and modernization of live sessions.
  • Boost meeting efficiency and better time management.
  • Secure and reliable performance with huge or large audiences.
  • Easy to do sentiment analysis.

Cons

  • Needs to add more branding and customization options.
  • Needs to add offline connectivity and sometimes experiences disruptions due to low internet bandwidth.
  • Pricing needs to be addressed.

Return on Investment

  • Rapidly increased engagement and participation rates.
  • Better decision making by getting real time feedbacks or inputs.
  • Cost & Time saving as well as operational efficiency & cost.

Excellent experience with Slido

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slido is play a vital role in making our workshops more interactive and increase audience participation. Due to Slido we can add activities in our workshops like quizzes, surveys and polls. It ensure seamless and open communication between audience and the organiser. Collecting of feedback during workshops helps in sentiment analysis of the participants. Integrate with almost every business messaging softwares.

Pros

  • this solution allow organisers to gather the responses from attendees, helps us to evaluate the overall experience so that we can make improvements for future events.
  • clear and eficient communication helps interact smoothly and stay engaged.
  • simple platform with wide range of features makes it convenient for users to operate and manage.

Cons

  • questionnaire has limited customisation sometimes difficult to adjust in specific events requirements.
  • limited connectivity with external services.

Return on Investment

  • Slido helps enhancing our quality of our workshops sessions by making more engaging and interactive for participants.
  • It reduce our efforts to gather feedback, saves time as well as organization resources.

Slido helps in audience participation and engagement

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slido helps in increasing the audience participation in the seminars and large scale meetings. After implementation in seminars it allow us to add activities like Q&A, surveys and polls that enhance the experience and makes more productive. Better communication and team collaboration, quick decision on the basis of activities outputs.

Pros

  • Large seminars makes more productive and easy to manage.
  • Sentiment analysis is easy for us during seminars.
  • Better control over the meetings and seminars.

Cons

  • Tool is paid not an open source.
  • Limited customisation options for brand promotions.
  • Sometimes survey answers get lost.

Return on Investment

  • Time saving for participants.
  • Time saving from doing surveys.
  • Audience participation and engagement improves a lot.

Great for quizzes and Q&As, easy to use

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Slido to interact with TV and Radio audiences: the host sometimes invites people to ask questions, give feedback, and participate in a quiz. Occasionally we would also conduct UX surveys as it is a platform that the audience already knows. We love that it supports local languages and is really easy to implement into a workflow.

Pros

  • Quizzes with Leaderboards
  • Q & As
  • Branding and embedding

Cons

  • In a poll with 2 simple questions, I would like to have an option to show all results (not just of the one, selected).
  • Support for Powerpoint on Mac is still missing, I think....

Return on Investment

  • We are able to pitch TV quizzes to sponsors, which then supports our production
  • Some radio shows sponsors started investing more if a contract includes a live Slido quiz for the radio audience. 100 listeners attending live is already a cool radio format...

Alternatives Considered

Mentimeter and Kahoot!

Other Software Used

Adobe Express, Asana, Perplexity

Usability

easy solution to for great results

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use the basic version of Sli.do in almost all of ma facilitation workshop.
Sometimes simply to get some comments on the workshop.
Sometimes as a survey tool .
I also use the Word cloud regularly to summarize an event.
A new application is to use the Q&A function during codevelopment workshop.

Pros

  • Very easy to set up
  • The integrated QR code generator is awesome
  • Very easy to understand for users
  • Several options to share the links ( hyperlink, QR code, full slide etc)
  • Very easy to integrate in a ppt

Cons

  • Possibility to have longer comment in the Q&A function
  • Limited export function in the basic version

Return on Investment

  • Accelerate response rate
  • Showing results live allow discussions to go more deeply
  • Increase audience participation
  • Increase immediate response and interaction between audience and facilitator

Alternatives Considered

Google Surveys

Other Software Used

Trello, Zoom, Google Drive, mmhmm, Shared Contacts for Gmail, Microsoft 365, Apple Keynote, Apple Numbers, Final Cut Pro X, GarageBand

Usability