Poll Everywhere vs Slido: Which is a better fit?

Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Beryl and I'm the founder and CEO of Be Complete, and we are a wellness firm. I give Poll Everywhere a four. When we were looking at software to do polls, we really struggled to find something that would integrate with the platform that we use, and it took us a while to really find a solution. The reason that we use Poll Everywhere is because it integrates very easily into the webinar platform that we use. We use Poll Everywhere for our class days to teach our students, and it really helps to reinforce the education. The students really like to see the results too, because it's in real time and it makes the classes really interactive. Integrating Poll Everywhere is pretty simple. It aligns nicely with the Google Meet platform, and so what we'll do is we'll embed the Poll Everywhere into slides. The only challenge that we have is sometimes the Poll Everywhere will freeze. And we have experienced that as a hiccup, but other than that, it's been pretty easy to integrate into PowerPoints and presentations. I recommend for anyone that's considering Poll Everywhere is to do a trial run to test and just to make sure that it's going to integrate with whatever webinar platform you're using. We use Google Meet and it does work with Google Meet, but there's also Microsoft Teams, and Zoom, and Webex, and different platforms. And so I would just recommend checking your platform before signing up for Poll Everywhere.

Guy G.: Hi, my name's Guy. I am the director of a small consultancy company, and I would give Slido five out of five. We've used a few different tools prior to Slido. Kahoot would be one of them. Kahoot's great for quizzes. The thing with Slido, I think it's a lot more dynamic in terms of getting word clouds, and there's lots of different ways of getting some great audience interaction, which is what I find so great about it. So we chose Slido because it's really easy to implement and get started on. I mean, I'm pretty into software and stuff, but actually anyone could get it and start using it pretty quickly. It's just all those different options that you can use to keep your audiences engaged. Getting started with Slido, super easy. You can either sign on with your Google account or set up your own password. And actually, you get loads of hints and tips from the guys at Slido across email to get you onboarded correctly, either as part of the journey, if you want to follow that kind of traditional journey or there's specific routes that you can take depending on your needs. If you're thinking of getting Slido for your company, I would recommend the big one is testing it out. Don't test it out day one on a big audience or any kind of audience, but try it. Play with it in the office. Get two or three people with mobile phones or whatever devices to join in so that you really see how it works in a test environment before you take it to your big audience presentation.