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Get some inspiration from your fellow Slido users on anything from use cases to how they run their meetings!

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Meggie from Slido
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💁‍♀️ Focus of the month: Meeting facilitation

Hey Community,How do you deal with silence when you’re facilitating meetings? Do you talk over it, ask others to speak, or just pray for it to be over? 👀We’ve found that people often ask us to add music to polls because of this exact reason. It’s totally understandable - facilitating meetings is daunting enough on its own, let alone if you are running a hybrid meeting where silence is common. 📌 But fear not, Slido community! Using our recently released typing indicator, participant names in open text polls and open text topics, you can tackle silence head-on and become an even better facilitator.  To find out how to set up and use these features, take a look at our quick tutorial:  📚 For more tips on facilitation and to find out why we will not be adding music to polls, head over to our blog. How do you feel about facilitating meetings? Have you used any of these features yet? Let us know your thoughts below! 🤗

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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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