Bitly vs TLinky: Which is a better fit?

Sharilee G.: Hi, my name is Sharilee, and I'm the director of the Discovery Family Coalition. We are a small staff, but we have a large membership, and our rating for Bitly would be a five. So getting started with Bitly was very easy. Again, it's very intuitive. It's very clear on the page what you do with it. So the reason that we got started with Bitly is, first of all, it was free and it was the one that I knew about to make those short URLs, and then we did end up on a paid version so that we had some of the features, like being able to organize it better and different features like that. Getting started was very easy. It's very intuitive and easy to see just on the screen what you do. I did recently find another option that is apparently free, and it has some benefits that Bitly doesn't necessarily offer, but Bitly has some things that I don't know that the other one offers, and so I'm not sure if we'll be renewing. I need to do some research on those, but I have been very pleased with Bitly with what we have been using up to this point. It was very easy to get started with Bitly. You go on the page. It's very obvious what you do and where. There have been a few times that things weren't working necessarily the way I expected them to, and that could have been user error. Eventually, I got it figured out, but for the most part, it seems like it's always there and very easy to tell what I'm doing. My recommendation for anyone that is considering getting Bitly is to become very familiar with what they offer, what the potential limitations might be for the future if they were to go away. That's one of the advantages that there may be over the other option that I was introduced to, is that it's not at all tied to any third party. So even if the third party were to go away, the shorter URL would still exist. However, I don't have any expectation that Bitly will go away. But anyway, just be sure that you know what they offer and that it meets your needs.