Collaborate!
June 18, 2018

Collaborate!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Bloomfire

Bloomfire is a collaborative tool by which we share information internally as well as with partner organizations. It is mainly being used in the translation department. Since we are scattered across the world, this is a convenient way to interact across time zones and oceans. Since we are all presumably interested in the same subjects, we find posts/questions/comments of interest nearly every time we go to the site.
  • Ease of use
  • Compatibility with many devices
  • Able to post different media
  • Ability to arrange into series
  • Navigation could be clearer
  • There could be more course-like structures built in
  • Embedding of links should be automatic- so they don’t go dead
  • Checking my own half-baked ideas before moving forward.
  • Getting answers from an expert community.
  • Storing my material online
Since I only use Bloomfire and Canvas and academia.edu, I have not much to say here.
Bloomfire is great for sharing your own material, especially when not fully developed. Collaboration is natural and easy.

For course construction there are more appropriate tools, like Camvas.

Using Bloomfire

Post and search are easy, but general organization is non-intuitive
ProsCons
Like to use
Feel confident using
Unnecessarily complex
Slow to learn
  • Posting
  • Search
  • Member management
  • Course setup
  • Panoramic view of material
  • Material organized by chronology- not intuitive
Yes - Not very well. If you only want to view the top level posts it is fine, but opening posts often gives you a blank screen.