Best Practices & Discussions

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Dave Turner
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Using Slido at Slient Auctions?

Weird question… Has anyone ever used Slido to help manage a auction / silent auction? Seems like this could be set up to take input/ bids via QR code/ link and parse info behind the scenes… Just curious if any ever leveraged Slido for that

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Cori from slido
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Skeggie
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Discussion: Slido feature wishlist

Hey Maggie,Work has been using Slido to deliver more dynamic and involved webinar sessions for a few months now, and as a tech-head I wanted to have a bit more of a look under the hood as it where as to where things are going. There are issues that crop up repeatedly in these events - don’t get me wrong, it’s a huge step up, but a slight elevation in a few areas would push it to the outstanding category. A couple of the biggest wishlist items we would really love are features in the Q&A section such as:[Option to] Enable participant-reply to questions - a lot of the time the presenter is so focussed on their presentation that questions pile up until designated check points (usually the end lol). There may also be attendees that are able to (or are better placed to) answer questions, or have a follow up issue or related topic. When replying currently this it is treated as a separate question, and with the default “Most Popular” ordering, responses can quickly get disjointed from the

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Join
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Which poll to use for people to sign up for topics?

I have about 30 tasks that I am looking for volunteers to sign up for. So one task can only have one person taking it on.  Same person can choose to take multiple tasks but we would need to see always when one task has been selected, then it should not be any longer available to others. Which poll type could I use? 

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Meggie from Slido
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🙋 Discussion of the month: driving productive discussions

Hey Community, Another month has passed which can only mean that it’s time for a new discussion of the month 🤗 Close your eyes and try to remember the last time you had a productive team discussion. It’s not easy, right? Yet productive discussions are key to great meetings.  That is why we’re focusing on driving productive discussions, this month. Here are some quick tips: 📌 Get people talking from the beginning by running an icebreaker word cloud. Ask about a hot topic in the company. You can always moderate the responses. 📌 Before jumping into the discussion, ask people to write down their opinions in an open text poll. If you don’t want participants to influence each other, hide the poll results. 📌 To move the discussion forward, run a quick ranking poll and ask participants which options they would like to focus on. To understand how we calculate scores in ranking polls, check out our quick explainer. Head over to our blog to read more about using polls to drive productive disc

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Meggie from Slido
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👩‍💻 Discussion of the month: Asynchronous communication

Hey Community, As we near the end of February, it’s time for our favorite activity - discussion of the month 🎉 Moving into 2022, the world is becoming more hybrid and remote-friendly, much to the joy of those of us who love working in sweatpants. But how can we communicate effectively without a physical shared space?  👉 The answer could be asynchronous communication and that is our topic of the month. Asynchronous communication happens when you exchange information at different times. Head over to our blog to read about the benefits of asynchronous communication and for 7 tips on embracing it. Some ways you can kick-start your asynchronous communication is by collecting input from your coworkers over long periods of time.  📌 This can include running asynchronous feedback rounds on your projects. Check out our tutorial for running and sharing surveys.  📌 You can also try collecting questions from your team before meetings. Did you know participants can submit questions to the Q&

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1 year ago
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TLC Creative
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Best way to setup a drop-in Trivia event?

For a virtual event, during the 15 minute break, I want to launch a trivia contest. A Slido quiz is not going to work as not everyone will join at the same time. Recommendations on how to setup a “drop-in”/self-paced trivia contest?

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1 year ago
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Georgios
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Quiz without participants having to enter their names

Hello,can I launch a Quiz, without Slido asking participants to introduce their names?Thank you,Georgios

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1 year ago
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AlexSlido Community Manager
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🎉 Discussion of the month: How to run engaging end-of-year meetings?

Hi everyone,November is almost over, so it’s time to introduce a new discussion of the month! Thank you so much for your contribution last month - loved reading all your favorite All-hands meeting moments. If you’d still like to share your best tips for running All-hands meetings, feel free to add them to this discussion!  Can’t believe that 2021 is almost over and it’s the time of the year for celebrating the wins and looking back at what the year has brought us! This month’s topic is all about running engaging End-of-year meetings  We’ve published a great article with 7 great tips on how to make these meetings feel more special. May it be looking back at the business numbers or less serious Holiday parties - we’ve got you covered! If you’re looking for more engagement at your business meetings, we’d recommend trying to review your key metrics through a quiz, collecting your teams’ highlights with an open poll and celebrating your teams through a silent hero Word cloud poll. Slido is

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Lorissa
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Setup for workshop

We would like to use Slido as part of a workshop.  We plan to run 2 parts:Question that small groups (break out rooms) brainstorm their ideas/ expertise on  We would like to then take this completed activity back to the larger group and have them vote on the answers.  Is this possible?  I have found I can ask a question and have people contribute responses (under Ideas) which can then rank the answers.  However I noticed that if the same answer is typed multiple times they do not accumulate but appear as separate answers.  (ie green, green, red, green).  I just wondered if I had missed something/ a step.   

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Francesca
1 year ago
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erola
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Is there a way to open the slido app when you scan the QR code?

Hello dear community,I thought about something that, in my opinion, would be really helpful. Maybe it’s possible but I didn’t find a way to do so.I would like to scan the QR code and then, the SLIDO app will open automatically (if it’s installed) and that you don’t need to enter the access code anymore (because you already scanned the QR code of your desired event = therefore another authentication isn’t needed).Is there such a setting?Thank you in advance. Best regardsLori

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Alex
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
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👏 Customer Story: Creating a Live Dialogue with Employees at All‑hands Meetings by Suntory

 Some time ago, we talked to Norito Yonezawa, Corporate Strategy Planner at Suntory Beverage & Food Limited, a global leader in producing soft drinks and food products based in Japan and one of our most engaged customers.  ✨ We’d like to highlight Suntory’s story of how Slido helped them transform their company culture and gave voice to their more silent employees.  Like any multinational corporation, it’s vital for Suntory to keep its teams aligned. To connect its 24,000 employees with the executive team, it runs quarterly townhall meetings.Traditionally, in Japanese business culture, people tend to avoid asking questions or participating actively in meetings. Suntory wanted to change that. Its goal was to create a safe space for its employees to open up and start a live discussion during their townhalls. “With Slido, we can see more honest questions that the executives answer from the top of their heads. Hearing what people really think makes the conversation feel more authentic.

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jeremyB
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Ideal timing for a poll during a presentation

Howdy. I’m using Slido and loving it. The audience seems to like it too. Tomorrow I’m doing a 90 minute presentation, and I’m using polls/surveys to break up my talking. This serves two purposes: 1. Gives a chance for people to engage; 2. Gives me a second to take a sip of water and mentally get ready for the next section. I’m wondering, in all the experience of members  here, what have you found to be the _ideal_ time to give people a chance to answer the poll. I dont think (but am easily corrected) that really the number of people in the session–be it 4 or 56–has much to do with the timing; everyone can read and answer at roughly the same time.So what is the ideal time to allow as many people to answer the poll as we can get while also keeping the momentum of the talk going? I ask because it seems, using Google Slides, the poll on the screen is the only active one, and you can only have one at a time (unless in a survey), so if you move onto the next slide, people lose their chance t

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Alex
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
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🤗 Discussion of the month: How to run more inclusive meetings?

Hey everyone! Hope you’re having a great week 😊 We’ve recently published an article where we’ve collected our best practices on Running More Inclusive Meetings - meetings where each employee has a voice and feels empowered to actively contribute.It features 15 essential tactics divided into 3 categories - pre, during and post meeting.  But! We’d also love to hear from you - our community!  🤗 What practices have you implemented to make sure your meetings are more inclusive and everyone gets to be heard? Let us know 👇 

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1 year ago
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panoramabeats
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Open Text questions scroll too quickly

Dear community, dear slido team, for my virtual event I wanted to create a open-text-poll. My problem is, that there are <100 participants and when they answer, the presentation mode will go crazy, because it will always scroll as soon as a new answer arrives. Is there a possibility to “lock” the automatic scrolling and to scroll by yourself to see the new answers?PS: Sorry I am no native speaker, I hope you get my problem. Cheers,David

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1 year ago
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Markhill87
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Employee of the month polls

Hi all,I am wanting to create an employee of the month poll ( over 30 employees will be voting). Can you advise the best template to use? Thank you. 

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1 year ago
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Vojtech Knotek
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Two language event and use of Q&A or other Slido tools

Hi everyone,we are going to have an international online event (via Zoom) for participants speaking two different languages (German and Czech). It is going to be translated simultaneously and we are thinking about using Slido for Q&A session, however I have no idea, how to handle it in two languages. Is there e.g. a possibility for the moderator/translator to comment&translate an incoming question so that people speaking the other language can vote for it?What other Slido-tools do you think we could use in this two language online format? Quiz, ranking, multiple choice? Word cloud probably not because of the two languages…?Thanks for your ideas and help! 

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1 year ago
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poppermann
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Zapier integration

Hello Slido Community,I am trying to import poll data from a source outside of the slido app interface, such a google sheets or a google form.Other software platforms offer a Zapier integrations, but Slido doesnt.Any suggestions for a workaround, how to import data into a Slido Wordcloud without using the native Slido app interface?Thank you!Peter  

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1 year ago
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DeMarie
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Private Questions to Moderator only

We want participants to be able to ask questions, but notate them as private so the moderator know not to show the question in the live questions, but be able to answer with a reply. Either during or after the meeting. Any thoughts?

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1 year ago
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AlexSlido Community Manager
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💡 Discussion of the month: What is your favorite poll question?

 Hi everyone, We’re on the lookout for new poll templates to add to our poll gallery and we need your help to crowdsource them and choose the best!   In the comments below - share your favourite polls that you use at your team meetings, brainstormings, all-hands and beyond. Oh, and don’t forget to like the others’ comments - polls with most likes will be added to Slido as poll templates later this summer!

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1 year ago
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Pedro
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Multiple choice option v Free Text

Is it possible to mix poll types as I have a customer who has a multiple choice selection with the last option being Other and wants to be free text answer?

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1 year ago
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Adil
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Using Slido for a team's project

Hi Community! Any chance I could use Slido with our team to reach an agreement? I run a team’s project and we spend a lot of time discussing opinions. I was thinking about using a Yes/No poll. Any tips on how I can pull this off?

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Sandrine
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Using Slido for smaller meetings

Hi all! Do you use Slido in smaller meetings? If so, how? I’m looking for inspiration. Slido works great at our all hands and town hall meetings, but we haven't found that much use for it in a smaller setup yet.

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Sandrine
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Do you do any followups on the answered questions from the meeting?

What do you do with unanswered questions? In the big meetings, we’ve started getting a lot of questions which we don’t manage to answer in the meeting but we don’t want them to go in vain. Do you have any tips?

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1 year ago
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Frederica
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How do you deal with rude comments and questions?

Hi Community, I just had one of the toughest allhands ever, we had so many questions, which was great but most of them were so rude. How do you deal with questions like that?

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