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Easy to use tool to drive engagement in your meetings
July 24, 2022

Easy to use tool to drive engagement in your meetings

Jay Gardner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Slido

We use Slido to increase engagement and participation in meetings. Specifically, we use this in every company-wide All Hands meeting, and also in many other larger group meetings. Especially when they are more than a handful of meeting attendees via Zoom, it's easy for people to check out, and we find that Slido helps to keep people involved!
  • In-meeting polling
  • In-meeting Q&A
  • In-meeting engagement
  • 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.
  • Word clouds
  • Polling
  • Q&A
  • We leave each All Hands meeting with a snapshot of whatever fun topic we picked for our word cloud or poll; sometimes these snowball into conversations via Slack after the meeting which helps our employees feel connected and engaged!
Zoom's polling is super basic and very limited. it gives you the ability to run polls but lacks the dynamic nature of Slido where we can run contests, word clouds, and different types of polls. Also, zoom's design is very basic and looks like what it is: in-meeting polling. Slido is bright and eye-catching and doesn't look like business as usual! Mentimeter is much more similar to Slido and I think has a lot of similarities, but their free version (last I checked) limits the number of polls/questions you can use at once which I've seen leads to participants having to enter in a new code for each poll. Slido's free plan gives you 3 polls per event which is usually all we need, and once participants have logged in to the first poll/question they are already there for the rest!

Do you think Slido delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Slido's feature set?

Yes

Did Slido live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Slido go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Slido again?

Yes

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.