Slack vs ScreenPal: 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.

Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Roger, and I am a guitar teacher online. And so, I use Screencast-O-Matic a lot to do video tutorials so that I can help augment the lessons that I give. I love this program. Honestly, I would give them the highest rating, a rating of five. Before I got Screencast, and I've been using them for quite a while now, I was just trying to make videos with QuickTime on my Macintosh computer, and it honestly did not give me the flexibility that I needed. The nice thing about Screencast is that it gives me enough stuff to work with editing and so on and so forth without overwhelming me. And at the same time, the QuickTime just doesn't give me all the tools that I need to do the job that I need to do. I was looking around for something to replace QuickTime, I didn't know. And honestly, I didn't even know the term screen recording. I had never heard that before, so I had to poke around a little bit, but I finally figured it out and Screencast came up and I looked at it and I tried it and I liked it better than anything else that I was using. I have since, because I'm always looking for, I'm a grass is always greener on the other side kind of guy. And so, I was looking around maybe for something better and I've looked at three or four different other programs, but nothing works for me anyway as well as easily as conveniently and gives me all the tools that I need to do my job. Getting started with Screencast was pretty easy. Everything's pretty clearly marked. A couple of things that I stumbled over, but hey, I'm old, old people and technology is not always a good combination, but quite frankly, it was pretty easy to get going. They've had a couple of upgrades since I started and the upgrades just integrated very comfortably right into what I'm doing. Everything was very easy, very convenient. Well, if somebody was considering Screencast, I mean, I would look at Screencast and I would look at a couple of others and I think what you'll find is that Screencast is going to give you everything that you need. There's a lot of support, there's a lot of stuff online to learn about too. So you have a lot of things that you can do with Screencast and it's just easier to work with all the way around. But I would check some others first to make the comparison so that you're comfortable in your own mind. And then I think you'll definitely choose Screencast-O-Matic.