Slack vs Website Toolbox: Which is a better fit?

Speaker 1: I'm Cam, senior director in our company, anywhere between 20 and 25 employees across the world at any given time. I couldn't go a day without Slack. That's five stars for me. Before Slack, we actually had to use two different software options. We used Sococo for our virtual meeting offices, and that served a purpose. It was good for a little bit, but then as we got bigger, we also had to use Skype. And so a natural progression was moving on from both of those into one that offered the same exact offerings, if not even more, and that was Slack. So previous to Slack, Sococo, Skype, and a couple other different instant messaging systems, all provided by Slack going forward. Everything from the pricing to the ease of deployment to how quickly we could get up and running, and just how generally available Slack is, whether it's desktop or the app, and from a mobile phone, you could have a web browser, anything you wanted to. You're never away from Slack, technically. And so, while that might not be a good thing for the work-life balance, it definitely made it much easier to deploy than anything else we researched, and we got forward. And now, it's just part of everyday life. The reason we chose Slack, one of them at least the biggest one was how quickly we could move everything from previous options or previous programs we used to deploy the day of. So I think that was on a scale of one to five, five being the easiest. It was a five. If not, even higher than that. It was as easy as possible to deploy Slack, get everything set up from our exec team, and then trickling it down. It took maybe a matter of a half hour to get everybody on board and inside of Slack, and it's still even faster now. So that was probably the biggest factor to getting us over to Slack in the initial phase. Recommending Slack, or if you're choosing between Slack and something else, just try the free version of Slack and understand that that is good enough to probably get you in the door and keep you in the door as well. The paid version and the other offerings from Slack make it even more integral to your business, so I would highly recommend giving it a shot. Just in general, the ease in which you could get started and the ease in which you could continue going forward without skipping a beat in your business needs, whatever your business needs might be, it's Slack and Slack going forward.

Cathie C.: My name is Cathie and I am a career transition coach and professional development director, and my rating for Website Toolbox is probably a five out of five. And for more reviews like this, you can click below. So prior to finding Website Toolbox, we were unable to do virtual interactive activities with some of the groups that we were working with. We were having to do things in a non-virtual way. We were having to do activities and connection points manually. And Website Toolbox gave us the opportunity to do forums and give homework assignments to the development groups that we were working with, assign them homework, give them opportunities to connect as teams virtually. And this was several years ago before everybody was really working in teams virtually. So dependently, the Website Toolbox gave us really cool opportunities to put questions out there for teams to go in and just have some forum space to interact. And it was a really neat way for us. I think a lot of bloggers use Website Toolbox too as well, but we were really able to use it in a professional development space really uniquely to connect teams and management teams in a virtual space. Mostly because it was affordable and accessible and we could use it off the shelf really easily. Website Toolbox was really easy and accessible for us to use. I didn't have any training in this. I'm not a technical person, but it was super easy for us to implement. I would just recommend that you go out and you check it out. You plug and play and give it a try because we found it to be a really great solution for us.