Slido

For teams who host events, I think Slido is a great tool to have in the toolbox. I've used it exclusively for customer-facing events, and it is very easy for attendees to understand, use, and interact with. We also use it for internal events like all-hands, and it works well in those cases as well.

Our every business event will be half done without Slido. We use it so much. In every meeting, training, event, we use Slido. You can see how people react with polls, word cloud, etc. what exactly people want to tell. It's so transparent.

If you are in need of a tool for participant engagement, Slido is for you! If you need to provide a quiz with a leaderboard for online training or preso, Slido is for you! If you need to gather feedback, Slido is for you!

I think if you were to have too many on a particular call, three is the magic number. If you have three you're gonna maintain that engagement. But I think if you were to just overuse it or use it for everything, like every single meeting there's gonna be like 10 polls. I think overuse would be kind of a negative. But like I said, for team meetings and just a quick survey, it's anonymous too if you want it to be, so that's helpful. But for surveys, it's top-notch.

The more I use it the more I discover special applications.
E.g. In codeveopment sessions , there is a step when participants must write questions on a notepad and then share questions as a group. Using the Q&A function in Sli.do we can all interact and vote for questions that were already written. This saves a lot of time compiling !!

Enabling private Q&A with total anonymity.

I really recommend it for large meetings to receive feedbacks and also when we wanna do a townhall with our internal employess.

Slido is great to use for live meetings, whether in person or via video conference; we mostly use this for Zoom meetings. You can use the different features at different times in your meeting: I love to start our All Hands meetings with a word cloud or a poll of some kind, and as people are joining via zoom it gets people feeling excited and connected even before we've started. It also gives us something fun to talk about while we're waiting for everyone to arrive and for the meeting to start. You can do a poll halfway through to keep people engaged, and then a poll at the end to see how you did, or maybe use the Q&A to see what questions come up without having the awkward zoom silence when you ask if anyone has any questions. I don't think this is helpful in smaller meetings, where people likely feel more comfortable interacting directly and asking questions verbally.

You can create and save loadable engagement templates so if you have sales meetings where you ask the same kinds of questions of the attendees, just make it a Slido and load that right from your Webex instance. It's free, why not use it and get people engaged?

We found Slido is great for a number of uses in our organization. In the higher education environment people are often scared to ask questions because they don't want to look or sound silly. Giving people the ability to ask anonymously gets the dialogue flowing pretty quickly most of the time. We have found it useful in the classroom environment but also for professional staff in meetings.

In our Webex training sessions, we incorporate Slido to help keep the sessions lively and interactive for attendees.

APPROPIATE - At meetings where you want to "hear" from the team and to might be a big group so not all will have the opportunity to talk - When you want to take a fast decision on something simple (black or white) and allow the people to vote LESS APPROPIATE - if you want that people participate actively (talking not just sending their comment)

Slido is well suited for any types of meetings, events, trainings, team meetings, etc. Any instances where you need audience interaction would be the best example. It probably would be less used in more formal business meetings.

Slido is ideal to use in meetings where you want to gather opinions and feedback in the form of surveys. With multiple options for how to pose the questions in the survey, you can find the right format to match the question you are asking, whether it be multiple choice or word clouds. With the rating format, you get ratings at the end of a training session, then you can use those results to create a CSAT.

It is always useful to start the lecture with and ask the audience about their knowledge or some topic. I think it fits in all times and scenarios.