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How to Host Introvert-Friendly Meetings with Slido? 4 Actionable Steps to Engage Introverts
There’s no reason to risk missing over half of your team’s contributions. Because that’s how much you can lose in...
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A Peek Into High-Trust Companies: Why Are They More Productive?
A high level of trust in your company boosts employee motivation, engagement and productivity. And what’s the return on trust investment? Decreased stress and increased profits. After all, it’s...
5 Must-Have Slido Features to Boost Engagement in Your Next Meetings
Did you know that 92% of employees admit to multitasking during meetings? It’s one of the biggest challenges of the modern workplace—our attention is constantly being pulled in many directions,...
5 Slido Activities to Build Psychological Safety In Your Team
At the center of a working environment with high levels of trust is the magic ingredient: psychological safety. If you’re a leader who is keen to improve company culture and your team’s...
Why Leaders Should Run Employee Ask Me Anything Sessions
An Ask Me Anything (AMA) session is an opportunity for your team to ask questions and feel heard. It gives them the chance to get answers and feel valued. But holding a Q&A isn’t always the...
4 Reasons to Run an Anonymous Q&A (+1 Reason Not To)
When you’re running a Q&A session, a big advantage of using technology to collect questions is that participants will feel safe and less shy about speaking up and asking things. Whether...
What Is an All-Hands Meeting and How to Host a Great One
Organizations that want to make sure their teams align know that regular all-hands meetings are important for creating a positive company culture. If you’re wanting to learn about all-hands...
How to Craft a Bulletproof All-Hands Meeting Agenda
Creating a bulletproof meeting agenda is key for running a successful and engaging all-hands meeting. Preparation is essential when you’re bringing everyone in the company together and...
What to Do with Unanswered Questions After Your All-Hands Meeting
The Q&A at the end of your all-hands meeting is often the most important part for employees. But with limited time, there’s a high chance that you won’t get to answer everything...
11 Best Slido Product Updates From 2023 + a 2024 Sneak Peek
As we head into a fresh new year, it’s the perfect time to recap on the last 12 months. In 2023 we released lots of exciting new updates – with the goal of making Slido easier and more...
The Best 110 Trivia Questions for Team Bonding Quizzes
If you’re looking for a way to help your team bond and connect, then why not try a good quiz packed with fun trivia questions? It might seem like an easy way for your team to enjoy each...
3 Ways to Have A Fun Christmas Party Using Slido
Did you know that you can use Slido at your Christmas party to help the festivities go without a glitch? You can keep guests engaged and even plan your party with Slido – there are so many...
6 Fun Quizzes for Your (Virtual) Christmas 2023 Holiday Office Party
Are you throwing a virtual Christmas party at work this year? They’re the perfect option when your team works in remote or hybrid fashion and means that everyone can be included, no matter...
7 Ways to Celebrate Your Team in Your End-Of-Year Meetings
As 2023 draws to a close and with 2024 in sight, we’ll all be taking a look back at what we’ve achieved this year. Your end-of-year meetings are a great chance to celebrate and uplift...
Slack, TomTom + The School of Life on How They Build Trust at Work
‘If you can inspire trust as a leader, you can engage your people on a deeper level, increase confidence and motivation, and build resilience to weather tougher times,’ Victoria Lim, Head of...
How to Use Slido’s Zoom Integration For Your Meetings and Webinars
If you’re eager to increase interaction and engagement in your Zoom meetings and webinars, you’ve come to the right place. Slido and Zoom now work better together, ensuring that you work better...
7 Signs of a Meeting Culture in Trouble – And How to Fix Them
Bad meetings and meeting overload are the most obvious signs of a troubled meeting culture. In April 2023, we spoke to 18 leaders from the US to understand what their meetings were missing**....
There’s a Reason Leaders Fear the Q&A… But They Should Do It Anyway
As a leader, what do you think of when you hear the words ‘Q&A session’? Perhaps these words make you a little nervous. You may feel exposed to the possibility of tough questions during a...
11 Tips for Using Slido in Your Webex Meetings
We have some great news for all Webex users. Not only do you get access to our Enterprise features as a part of your Webex plan, but Slido will now power all polling and Q&A functionality within...
5 Ways to Deal With Difficult Employee Questions During Q&A
Opening up to employee questions has never been more important than it is today. In tough economic times, hosting transparent Q&A sessions and giving people a chance to ask is a key channel for...
Why Companies Like TomTom Use Slido Q&A
Whether you’re introducing a new process at work, or addressing a tough decision, Q&A sessions allow you to bring transparency into the discussion. A well-planned Q&A session can help you...
Collaborate Easily With Your Teams Using Slido Spaces
We’re excited to introduce our easiest collaboration feature yet: Slido Spaces! 🎉 Spaces allow you to categorize and share meetings with your colleagues automatically – without the hassle...
What Is Proximity Bias in the Hybrid Workplace?
Proximity bias is an unconscious tendency to favor those who are physically close to us. Before the pandemic, proximity bias was associated with preferential treatment for people who stay back in...
What Is a Great Meeting Culture and How Do You Build One?
Having started in the events space, Slido has always strived to ‘give the audience a voice ’. However, over the last 11 years, we’ve slowly evolved toward ‘giving everyone a voice ’ and...
Trust in Slido With Our Latest Security Updates
The security of our customer data is always our top priority at Slido. We strive to follow the best practices and comply with recognized standards to ensure that Slido is as secure as possible for...
The Key to Making Your Organization More Inclusive? Start With Meeting Equity
Meetings are one of the most important rituals within an organization, enabling teams to connect and collaborate. In a hybrid setup, the function of a meeting goes beyond collaboration; they hold...
Interaction Is the Tip of the Meeting Iceberg
At Slido, we’ve spent the last 11 years helping companies create more interaction in meetings. From all-hands to team meetings, we have helped our users build better relationships with their...
How Psychological Safety Helped Us Build a High-Performing Team
Restructurings are hard, to begin with. What’s on the other side is even harder: creating or recreating team connection, psychological safety, and alignment. At the start of 2023, I was asked...
How We Facilitate Democratic Decision Making at Slido
Choosing the right business strategy as a leadership team can be challenging. The decision-making process for such a critical part of the business can often be complicated, long-winded and hard to...
5 Ways to Use Slido in Google Slides
In this article, you’ll find examples of poll questions and quizzes that you can create with Slido and use in your Google Slides presentation to engage your participants. Quick tip! If this is your...
7 Interactive Poll Ideas for Your Next PowerPoint Presentation
Looking for new ways to make your PowerPoint presentation more interactive? Try live polls. With polls, you can collect non-verbal responses from your audience in real time. This is priceless –...
How to Give an Interactive PowerPoint Presentation in 2023
Presenting online is tough, yes. You can’t really connect with your audience. You often don’t even know whether those mute faces listen to you at all. That’s why it’s...
Why and How to Ask Open Ended Questions + Examples
In today’s hybrid workplace, listening can be harder than ever, with an influx of information battling for our attention. Leveraging open ended questions is one listening strategy that can help...
Why Psychological Safety is Essential for Performance in the Workplace
The 2020s have redefined what is expected from leaders. To inspire employees to act quickly and confidently in tackling today’s challenges, you need to build a safe and inclusive space within your...
Make Your Microsoft Teams Meeting More Interactive With Slido
In 2023, a Microsoft Teams Meeting is where work happens for many of us. If you’re part of a hybrid or distributed team, it’s the place where most of your meetings take place. And meetings get a...
Slido Elevate: Why Company Culture is Essential For Organizations to Thrive
As a leader, you’ve probably come across the famous quote attributed to Peter Drucker that “culture eats strategy for breakfast”. To understand whether that’s still the case in the face of...
From Vidcast to Loom and Claap, the 5 Top Asynchronous Video Tools
Organizations are entering an era that’s not just about where employees get their work done, but when they do it. As we recently wrote about on the Slido blog, the future of successful companies is...
Asynchronous Work Is the Future. Here’s Why.
Somewhere between 2020-2022, the larger conversation about work evolved. It pivoted from ‘where I get my work done’ to include ‘when I get my work done’. In the pre-pandemic...
Asynchronous Learning: What It Is & How to Do It Better With Slido
By taking the barriers of location and time away, e-learning platforms have made education accessible for everyone. One of the many benefits that came out of this movement is the asynchronous or...
The Complete List of 200 Icebreaker Questions For Meetings and Tips On How to Use Them
As a meeting host, preparing a strong opening is key. Kicking the meeting off on a high note is especially important, because it sets the tone and expectations of how the rest of it will go. So how...
Top 11 Slido Product Updates From 2022
As the doors open on a new year we’d like to take a look back at how far Slido came in 2022. We’ve pulled together a list of our biggest, best and most useful product updates from the last 365...
5 Tips to Spot and Prevent Burnout in Your Team
After the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting, organizations are now looking at the Great Restructuring and employee burnout by extension. As of November 2022, over 201,948 employees have been let...
‘Every Employee Processes Change Differently – Leaders Need to Recognize That’
At work, we’re surrounded by change every day. Some of us thrive under it while others struggle. Why is that? We unlocked some answers for you at Slido Elevate: The Science Behind Leading...
Why Anonymous Feedback Helps to Improve Trust in the Workplace
At Slido, we believe in the power of anonymity. When used well, anonymous feedback can be a powerful tool for building trust between leaders and employees during meetings. However, we’ve heard time...
How Trust Can Help You Lead Through Change
Change management is the art of leading through change, and is there a more apt word than ‘change’ to characterize the 2020s so far? From learning to embrace the home office to hybrid work,...
How to Prepare for a Meeting: Step by Step (With Examples)
It’s a good idea to make sure that all bases are covered if you’re planning a meeting ahead of time, so that you know it’ll go smoothly. But there’s plenty more to do than...
101 Would You Rather Questions Examples to Cheer Up Your Meetings
If you’ve got an upcoming meeting where you know you’ll need to break the ice, then asking your co-workers a ‘would you rather’ question is the way to do it. Also known as...
85 Conference and Interactive Event Ideas For 2023
These event ideas will help you to impress your attendees and turn your conference into an unforgettable...
Quiet Quitting Isn’t New – But It’s Critical That Team Leaders Address It
Capturing a unique moment in office culture, the term ‘quiet quitting’ exploded this autumn, first made popular in a series of TikTok videos. As an expression the term is misleading, as it’s...
Tips on How to Moderate a Panel Discussion as a Beginner
When it comes to a panel discussion, everything depends on the moderator. While they’re not easy to get right, there’s an art to doing a panel event well. For those that are moderating a...
7 Fun Quizzes for Company Hybrid and Virtual Meetings
Fun quizzes are the way to go if you want a brilliant team-building activity for employees, as part of smaller team meetings, or at larger company all-hands or town hall meetings. A good virtual quiz...
15 Introduction Icebreakers to Open Your Conference With
Icebreakers are the perfect way to make a good first impression at the start of a presentation or conference. They aid with boosting audience engagement, help people to settle in, and set the tone of...
How to Deal With Awkward Silences During Meetings
Have you ever wondered how we make product decisions at Slido? In this blog, we’re going to show you how we improved the product to address a top pain point of our users: awkward silences....
4 Ways to Approach Tough Conversations With Your Team About the Return to the Office
After more than two years of working from home, companies are increasingly changing their remote work policies, with the return to the office now in full swing. Fewer than 8% of Americans now work...
The Top 80+ Poll Question Ideas to Ask Your Online Audience
Whether you’re running a meeting, hosting a training, webinar, or speaking at an event, polls are your best friend. They can help you to interact with the audience and keep them engaged –...
35 Icebreakers Perfect for Virtual and Hybrid Meetings
We’ve all been there – the start of a virtual or hybrid meeting where there’s an awkward silence. But this can be a thing of the past when you introduce the humble icebreaker to get...
Team Decision-Making: How to Make It Simple & Effortless
Making a decision as a team is hard enough as it is, let alone if you try to do it at an online or a hybrid meeting. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. Some people try to push...
How to Prioritize Tasks Effectively When You’re Managing a Team
Being able to prioritize tasks is indeed a superpower – especially when you’re managing a team. Prioritize well and your team will be able to focus on work that really matters, deliver tasks...
52 Word Cloud Examples for Your Meetings and Events
Word cloud is a beautiful visualization of your audience’s thoughts. You simply ask your participants a question, they submit a one or two-question answer into an app, and all their submissions...
3 Ways to Eliminate Workplace Gossip
Workplace gossip is born out of uncertainty and knowledge voids. When employees don’t have accurate information about a decision, strategy, or company event, they tend to make assumptions. In...
How to Host More Effective Meetings by Collecting Input in Advance
As a wise man once said: A great meeting starts before the meeting. Okay, it was us who said it here. But we heartily believe that and we’re not alone. In their book ‘How to fix meetings’,...
25 Meeting Tips You Need for Better Meetings
Meetings are the lifeblood of every company. They facilitate important moments where we meet with colleagues to make decisions, generate ideas, share, and discuss. Are your meetings as productive and...
Post-meeting Feedback Survey: A Way to Measure Your Meeting’s Effectiveness
We’re used to rating every Uber ride, meal delivery, or hotel – so why not meetings? Running a feedback survey after your meeting helps you understand how valuable, enjoyable, or simply good...
How to Use Polls to Drive Productive Meeting Discussions: 4 Easy Tactics
A discussion is often what makes a meeting. If it’s a productive one, you and your team can come up with the best idea, make a decision or find an innovative solution to a problem. If, of...
Asynchronous Communication: What It Is and How to Do It Well
As we navigate the wild waters of hybrid work, asynchronous (async) communication should definitely be on our radar. We work more individualistically now than we ever have before. Many professionals...
8 Super Engaging 5-Minute Team Building Activities for Your Meetings
Are you on the lookout for team-building activities that won’t eat up too much time? Then we have something just for you! Team-building doesn’t always have to mean a day at a laser tag arena or a...
10 Good Things That Happened in 2021 (+ Quiz)
After the tough year that 2020 was, we thought 2021 will have to be smooth sailing. Although we still haven’t beaten the pandemic, the end of the year is a great time to recognize all the good...
How We Build a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
At Slido, one of our core values is “we care”, which reflects how we approach our customers, our work, and ultimately, each other. One of the most important demonstrations of this value is our...
How to Host Better Q&A Sessions at All-Hands Meetings
Giving your employees a chance to ask questions in a Q&A session should be one of the core elements of your all-hands meetings. It’s a priceless opportunity to learn what your employees think...
8 Interactive Ideas For Your Next All-Hands Meeting
If your all-hands meetings feel dull or unengaging at times, don’t worry – you’re not alone. Making big meetings engaging for employees is a tough job, especially in a hybrid or virtual...
How to Pull Off a Hybrid Company Offsite Without a Glitch (in 5 Steps)
Strategically, an offsite meeting is an important avenue for business alignment across your company. Culturally, it’s a priceless opportunity for team-building and fostering relationships. And...
How to Prepare Executives for a Q&A: 9 Essential Tactics
If you’re an Internal Communications professional, you may be tasked with preparing leadership for Q&A during all-hands or town hall meetings or a stand-alone Ask Me Anything session. The...
How to Pick the Right Poll Type for Your Meeting or Event
Polling is an awesome way to collect useful data and insights from your participants and keep them engaged throughout your meeting or event. But there are many different poll types. How do you choose...
Introducing: Slido in Webex
We’re excited to announce that as of today, we’re officially rolling out Slido’s integration with Webex Meetings. From now on, you can interact with your audience using Slido’s live polling,...
7 Interactive Tips for Running a Better Project Kick-off Meeting
The first step in setting your project up for success is running a stellar kick-off meeting. It’s an important meeting for determining the scope of the project, what the deliverables are, and what...
How to Master Learning and Development In Your Team
Learning and Development, staff training, employee growth program… Whichever way you call employee education strategy in your company, chances are you have one in place. And it’s a smart...
How to Run More Interactive Training Sessions with Live Polls (+25 Examples)
As a trainer, your ultimate goal is to help your participants develop skills and adopt new practices. But holding their attention and making the new information stick is not always easy. In this...
5 Tips for Designing an Inclusive (Remote-Friendly) Brainstorming Session
Designing a quality brainstorming session in a fully remote or a hybrid setup is no small feat. More often than not, a few vocal individuals hijack the session to pitch their own ideas, while the...
5 Meeting Formats That Will Keep Your Team on Track
People spend 31 hours on unproductive meetings a month, a recent study has found. Half of all meetings are considered a waste of time. And it costs businesses $37 billion in salaries, only in the...
How to Master Hybrid Meetings: 22 Best Practices
The future of work is hybrid. The recent Global Workforce Survey predicts that a staggering 98% of meetings will include at least one remote participant. When we asked the attendees of our Trend...
How to Host More Inclusive Meetings: 15 Essential Tactics
What do we mean when we talk about inclusive meetings? The term itself doesn’t describe any new phenomenon; rather, meetings as they should be. Inclusive meetings are meetings where each employee...
3 Employee Engagement Strategies & How to Measure Them
High employee engagement means that your employees are happier at work, more committed and productive, and more likely to stay with your company. Yet, the reality is that only 36% of employees are...
How to Use Slido for Your Hybrid Meetings
Hybrid meetings are set to become the new normal. Research predicts that as much as 98% of all future meetings will include at least one remote participant. For every meeting leader, this fact brings...
Slido is Officially Part of Cisco
We shared the news of Cisco’s intent to acquire Slido last December and today, we’re excited to announce that the acquisition is now complete and Slido is officially part of Cisco. Since we...
Key Findings From Our Meetings Trend Report 2021
It’s been a couple of years since the pandemic turned many of us into hybrid workers. How did this change affect our meetings? We asked 1,500 US office workers about their meeting experiences....
Technology Will Fuel More Inclusive Meeting Experiences
Jeetu Patel, SVP and General Manager, Security and Collaboration for Cisco, on how technology can help leaders make meetings better – both now and in the...
Facilitating Great Meetings: 10+ Tips That Work
Leanne Hughes, international facilitator, and host of the First Time Facilitator podcast, on how creating meaningful conversations leads to running more valuable and engaging...
Diverse Meetings Lead To Better Decisions
Bruce Daisley, bestselling author, consultant, and ex-Twitter VP EMEA, on whether there is a link between the diversity of meeting attendees and making better collective...
Our Meetings Have Been Broken for a While. It’s Time for Leaders To Make a Change
Bill Macaitis, Growth advisor, former CMO at Zendesk & Slack, former SVP at Salesforce, on how leaders can change their meeting culture for the...
5 Meeting Tips to Address the Changing World of Work
Katie Guzman, Product Management Lead at Asana, on how thoughtfully designed virtual meetings can help businesses manage the...
How to Facilitate a Successful Q&A Session
A Q&A session has the potential to be the most important part of your company meetings. It’s a way to give employees a voice – a chance to ask questions to leadership and raise any concerns....
The Complete Guide to Using and Facilitating Live Polls
Looking to make your meeting, event, or training more interactive? Then live polls are one of the interactive tools that you can’t miss out on in your presentation. Polls allow you to interact...
What Is a Ranking Poll and 5 Best Practices for Using It
Are you ready to meet one of the mightiest in Slido’s poll family? We give you – Ranking poll. Using this feature, you can let your participants rank multiple options based on their...
These 5 Trends Will Shape the Future of Work
There’s no going back. The way we work in the 2020s looks nothing like the way we worked in 2019. But that’s not a bad thing. The shape of the ‘new world’ looks more defined....
How to Use Slido for Small Meetings: 10 Interaction Tips
You may know Slido as a great tool for larger meetings such as all-hands, town halls, or offsites. But did you know that you can take advantage of Slido for smaller team meetings as well? Even during...
How to Run a Truly Engaging Corporate Training – Remotely
Despite its reputation, corporate training doesn’t have to be a bore. Let your trainees actively contribute throughout the training and you can bet it will become way more engaging! As part of...
20 Improvements to Slido in 2020
Yearly wrap-ups are all around us … so we decided to make one for you, too. Even though everything seemed to slow down this year, things really sped up at Slido. The new reality motivated us to...
Slido To Be Acquired by Cisco To Help Transform Virtual Meetings
We started Slido with the vision to transform how meetings and events are run around the world. In the eight years since we began, the world has changed, no more so than in 2020. With millions of...
Introducing Slido for Microsoft Teams
We’re thrilled to announce that today, we’re rolling out Slido for Microsoft Teams. From now on, you can bring more interaction into your Teams meetings with Slido’s core features:...
How To Run a Great Retrospective With Your Remote Team
Running a regular team retrospective is a must if you want your team to improve and grow. And it’s twice as important if you’re leading a large distributed team. A retrospective meeting...
Introducing Slido for PowerPoint
We’re excited to announce that today we’re rolling out our new integration – Slido for PowerPointbeta. From now on, you’ll be able to create and add Slido polls, quizzes, and...
Slido Has Made One Million Events More Engaging
This week, we’ve crossed the milestone of one million events that have used Slido to create better interactions between speakers and their audiences since our foundation in 2012. In total, our...
How to Run a Fully Virtual Offsite & Pull It off Successfully
Remember when we used to go for company offsites? Me neither. The fact that the whole company was able to meet in a cool spot and have fun together sounds quite utopian today. What we’re left...
All You Need to Know About Live Polling in Zoom
Done right, live polling can shoot engagement during your Zoom calls through the roof. And who wouldn’t wish for more engaging meetings and webinars, right? In an online space, polls are your...
All You Need to Know to Run a Great Q&A Session on Zoom
Including a Q&A session on your agenda is always a good idea – whether you’re running a Zoom meeting, webinar, or online event. Giving your online audience a chance to ask speakers...
The Essential Tech Tools You Need for Your Online Meetings
In this remote era, online meetings are indispensable for any team leader to connect with their team, get their buy-in, make collective decisions, brainstorm new ideas, or plan new projects. But how...
7 Ways You Can Use Slido Image Polls During Your Meetings
If you’ve ever used polls during your company meeting or team meeting, you surely know of their power. In an instant, you can engage your colleagues in a conversation, or collect priceless...
Why and How We Run Our Monthly Employee Pulse Surveys
Understanding what our people think and how they feel has always been essential to us. Until recently, we ran quarterly satisfaction barometers and while they gave us lots of priceless insights, we...
What ENGAGE Virtual Event Taught Us About Engagement
“What is your biggest challenge with virtual events?” When asked in a survey, event planners usually give the same answer – audience engagement. To put a number to it, more than 73% are...
Multiple Presenters? Here’s How to Run Your Virtual Meeting Without a Glitch
Have you ever run an online meeting or event that featured multiple presenters? If so, then I reckon you’re no stranger to hearing lines such as: “Can you see my screen?” “Next slide,...
9 Ways Slido Can Help Support Your Team in Difficult Times
Maintaining healthy internal communication has never been more important than it is today. In the latest State of Global Workplace survey from Gallup, nearly 44% of employees said they experienced a...
Introducing a Simpler Way to Engage Your Team With Slido
Today we hosted our first ever virtual product event. Hundreds of you participated and we’ve received some valuable feedback from many of you. We take our recent milestone of reaching one...
How to Give a Great Online Presentation: 11 Pro Tips
Giving a presentation online is much more difficult than presenting in front of a live audience. People get distracted easily. You can’t read the room. Often, you can’t even see your...
Slido Celebrates One Million Participants a Week
This week, as we celebrate our 8th birthday, we’ve reached a milestone of one million participants using Slido in a single week. We’d like to say thanks to all of you – one million...
7 Essential Tips for Managing Your (Newly) Remote Team
Managing a fully remote team is a challenging task, especially if this is the first time you’ve found yourself in the situation. You need to stay on top of everything; make sure everyone on the...
Interaction Is the Key Ingredient of Online Meetings
A meeting without interaction is like a meal without proper seasoning. It will fill you up, but it will not really satisfy you. People attending an online meeting can’t just be passive...
Step by Step Guide for Hosting a Great Online Quiz
An online “pub quiz” is an ideal team-building or team-bonding activity. It’s fun and easy to pull off anywhere and on any occasion. All it takes is an exciting theme, challenging...
The Beginner’s Guide: How to Run Your First Virtual Conference
Are you planning to run a fully remote event and you don’t know where to start? To help you achieve this, we asked an expert virtual conference organizer for advice. Magda Sowierszenko, Head of...
25 Fun Poll Questions for Your Virtual Team Meetings
Smart poll questions can make your virtual meetings more fun, engaging, and effective. They will help you get instant feedback from your online colleagues and reach your meeting objectives faster and...
Case Study: Switching an Event from Live to Virtual in 5 Days
The COVID-19 pandemic surging around the world has taken a heavy toll on the events industry. The growing risk has forced SXSW, IMEX and other conferences to cancel. Many others were postponed....
Behind the Scenes of Our First Virtual Event
Yesterday, we ran our first fully virtual event – Slido Masterclass. Over the years, masterclasses have become the key platforms for us to engage with our clients in London and beyond. At our...
13+ Tips for Running More Engaging Webinars
When running a webinar, you’re often in the dark. You can’t read the room. You don’t even know whether your online participants are paying attention to you. Well, the truth is,...
Best Practices for Running Virtual Events from Gerrit Heijkoop
Are you considering moving your live event online? You’re not alone. The recent budget cuts have forced many conference organizers to switch to virtual events. If you are a virtual newbie, there...
How We Ran Our First Fully Remote Customer Townhall
Like many companies today, our customer-facing team at Slido is distributed. In fact, we are now spread across 27 locations all the way from Tasmania to Los Angeles. In order to bring all our teams...
How to Use Slido for Your Webinar
A successful webinar is a combination of insightful, valuable content and the ability of the presenter to deliver it in an engaging and fun way. Naturally, we can’t help you with the content...
How to Use Slido for Your Virtual Meetings
Working remotely has become the default state for many companies worldwide. With that, remote meetings will become the key communication channel to keep the cogs moving. Here’s your guide on...
Leadership AMA as a Bridge to More Transparency
The 2020s have emphasized how important it is for leaders to stay open to questions from their people. Giving the team a safe space to ask questions is essential for building trust and open culture....
How to Use Slido For Virtual Events and Conferences
If you’re looking for ways to make your online event more engaging, this blog is for you. Here’s everything you need to know about setting up Slido for your upcoming virtual event or...
Say Hello to Slido for Education
We're introducing Slido for Education - a package for educators to power up interaction during their lectures and virtual...
27 Tips For Effective Remote Meetings
Nothing beats the personal touch but sometimes, meeting remotely is the only way. In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, many companies have switched to remote meetings to keep their employees...
Step by Step Guide: Using Slido + Google Slides For Your Virtual Classes
To this date, more than 290 million students are out of school due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. In response to the outbreak, many schools are migrating to virtual classes. The situation is...
Interactive Classrooms Report 2020
Read the key findings from our 'Interactive Classrooms' survey, in which over 200 lecturers shared with us their insights on the interactivity during their...
How to Lead and Facilitate Virtual Team Meetings
For many companies around the world, running virtual meetings is the only way to manage cross-team communication. But there are multiple challenges that come with attending meetings online. Remote...
How Slido Allowed Thousands of Kids to Speak With an Astronaut
If you were a child, can you think of anything cooler than speaking with a real astronaut? New Scientist Live made that dream come true for over 6000 children at their last years’ festival....
What is Conversational Presenting and Why You Should Give It a Try
Presentations are far from being dead. With 30 million PowerPoint presentations delivered every single day, they’re doing better than ever. But the fact is that many of these presentations are...
7 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Slido
Whether you’re preparing an all-hands meeting, running a virtual training or organizing a conference, these seven tips will help you make the most of Slido. You can use these quick links to...
Free Ebook: How to Improve Engagement in Your Classroom
Digitization has disrupted the traditional lecture. Our students have smartphones, they can watch lectures on YouTube, sign up for online classes… Does it even make sense to keep on giving...
11 Live Polls That Will Increase Interaction in Your Classroom
Classroom interaction is key to giving great lectures. If you’re reading this, you’re probably one of the teachers who realize that one-way content broadcast doesn’t appeal to...
How to Use a Quiz Template in Slido
You’d like to use a quiz or a poll question at your upcoming meeting, but…you have no idea what to ask. Fear not, we’ve compiled some handy examples that are ready to use in your Slido...
The Moments That Made Our Year
2019 whizzed by so fast. Yet, it was marked by plenty of exciting updates within our team and product. At Slido, 2019 was a year of the new brand, Quizzes (yay!), lots of improvements to our Q&A...
This One Question Will Help You Tell More Powerful Stories
Every story needs an audience. More often than not, though, we leave the people in our audience out of our stories completely; they just passively sit and listen. No wonder that people’s minds...
Product News Recap: Quizzes, Google Slides Integration and more
It’s that time of year again. Festivities and office parties are around the corner. To make it even more special, a few presents are waiting for you in your Slido account. Over the last few months,...
Slido and Flexport Talk Effective Company Communication
Flexport is a freight forwarding platform that helps users move, finance and make better decisions about their freight. In layman’s terms, their daily bread is helping people ship a huge number...
How Instagram Nailed Users’ Learning Experience and Why Event Profs Should Care
I have a love-hate relationship with Instagram. I hate myself for checking it way too often. On the other hand, it’s a platform where I go to learn about the things I love, like cycling or events....
Say Hello to Quizzes
Today we’re launching Quizzes to help you make your presentation or training fun and help your audience...
How to Give a Killer Presentation: 18 Top Tips
People attend presentations to learn and gain useful insight. But way too often, we see the audience yawn, scroll on their phones or check their watch, wishing that the time would go faster. Is it...
Introducing Slido for Google Slides
Today, we’re launching Slido for Google Slides, the easiest way to add live polling and Q&A to Google...
From sli.do to Slido: Refreshing the Slido Brand
TL;DR: We’ve dropped the dot, but we’re still the same Slido. Only, we’re better dressed and grown up. Meet the refreshed Slido...
The Moderator’s Guide to Hosting a Stellar Company Offsite
Moderating company events will teach you many lessons, but there’s one that has become my North Star: “How you present the content is as important as the content itself.” And the stakes are...
7 Reasons to Use Slido at Your Company Meetings
Eleven million. That’s the average number of meetings held daily throughout the US alone. Yes, we meet a lot. But how do we make sure these meetings are productive and worthwhile? Rule...
3 Tips to Turn Your Lectures into Engaging Conversations
The concept of a teacher broadcasting to a room full of students is increasingly a thing of the past. YouTube, MOOCs, Wikipedia. Information is always only a click away. This challenges traditional...
New Custom Themes: Match Slido with Your Brand Colors or Event Styling
Whether you run company meetings or conferences, we know how important it is for you to provide a consistent brand experience across all your communications. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce...
10 Corporate Event Ideas to Build Employee Engagement
Keeping your employees engaged is a must-do for any company that wants to thrive. Luckily, there are many ways to go about it, and corporate events are your best bet here. A well-planned event can...
Mental Health at Work Expert: Companies Need to Talk About Mental Health Openly
She was a successful Head of Communications. She worked at a high pace, she was driven, always striving to perform her best. Until one day, she realized she can’t go on any longer. She...
10+ Exciting Improvements in Slido: Close the Q&A, Slido Labs and More
Have you been to your Slido account lately? There are a few nice surprises waiting for you there. Over the summer, we’ve been busy cooking up new features and revamping the existing ones with new...
Case Study: How to Communicate Change to Employees with Slido
If your company is going through a transformation, effective communication is your trump card. And it’s not just about informing your employees. Involving them in the process and addressing their...
How Talking About Wins and Struggles Helped Our Team Bond
When someone admits their weaknesses or mistakes, it makes them more likable in others’ eyes. In psychology, this phenomenon has been known since 1966 and is called the Pratfall Effect. Why is it...
5 Creative Conference Ideas to Try in 2020
How many times have you reached into your creative ideas shelf when planning a conference and realized you’ve used all the usual session formats way too often? To make this constant search for...
Kate Schroeder (Vimeo): Employees Need to Feel Safe to Ask Questions
Kate Schroeder is a Director of Recruiting & Talent Operations at Vimeo, the world’s largest ad-free open video platform, providing powerful tools to host, share and sell videos. She’s been...
Demo Day: A Way to Connect Product and Customer Success Teams
At Slido, we constantly innovate. We never stop thinking up ways to make our product even better. But keeping pace with the improvements and updates can sometimes be hard, especially for our...
Make Your Lectures More Interactive with Our New Google Slides Add-on
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new integration with Google Slides for teachers and professors, as part of our partnership with Google for Education. With our Google Slides add-on, you...
13 Ways We at Slido Use Slido
Every feature and functionality that we’ve ever cooked in our Slido kitchen has been carefully tested by our own team. After all, how could we trust our product and secure the best experience...
Product News Recap: Labels for Questions, Invoices in Admin, and More
We’re constantly looking for ways to improve your Slido experience to help you run better meetings and events. In the last few months, we’ve released some important product updates and new...
Introducing Labels: A New Way to Organize Your Questions
When you collect questions for your all-hands meeting or conference Q&A session, sometimes it’s hard to keep track of all the topics people ask about. Especially when the Q&A involves...
5 Lessons We Learned from Internal Comms Experts of Slack and Mixpanel
The future of work will be built on more effective team collaboration and transparency in communications. This was a central theme of many discussions at last week’s Slack’s customer...
7 Event Ideas That Will Turn Your Event from Yawn to Yay
As event professionals, we always look for new, creative concepts that would raise the bar of our events. And we understand that a great idea is worth its weight in gold. Since time is another...
Internal Comms Director at Onfido: Listen to Your Employees, They Want to Talk
Emily Scammell is Director of Internal Communications at Onfido, an identity verification software that is currently London’s fastest-growing scale-up. She is a highly experienced internal...
5 Essential Tools You Need for Your Internal Communications
There’s a lot at stake when choosing the right tools for your internal communications. If the tool clicks, it can be the catalyst for your team’s productivity and collaboration. If not,...
5 Reasons to Use Slido at Your Event
How to make an event truly memorable? That’s the question that runs through every event organizer’s mind every now and then. Granted, there are many variables at play. But there’s...
Communications Manager at Zoom: Don’t Ignore Employee Questions Just Because They’re Inconvenient
Zoom is a video communications platform employing over 1,500 people around the globe. It’s also the second best company to work for in the US according to Glassdoor. In the last couple of years,...
How to Build Internal Communication When There’s None: 3 Steps We’re Taking
As your company grows in size, keeping everyone aligned around strategy and goals becomes more challenging. During such times of change, getting communication with your employees right is your key to...
The Complete Guide to Successful Fireside Chats
A fireside chat is a great alternative to the traditional presentation format. Popular with event organizers, it is a fixed element in the agendas for many conferences. If you’re looking to freshen...
Guide: 25 Tips to Engage Your Team at All-Hands Meetings
Giving your team a voice is one of the main reasons why a regular all-hands meeting should be run. Still, for many employees, it is just another meeting to sit through. So, how do you organize an...
The Future of Panel Discussions: Top Tips for Hosting Remote Presenters
In December 2018, we set out to explore the future of town hall meetings. The goal of our one-day event in partnership with Convene was to show how a successful all-hands could look in 2019 and...
How We Built a Culture of Learning at Slido
To cultivate a learning culture in your organization, hiring curious people and allocating time to continuous learning is a good way to start. Like many companies, we are trying to find our own...
Town Hall of the Future Will Be Interactive and Collaborative
Town hall meetings have become a regular fix in the calendar of many companies. We partnered up with our friends at Convene again to put together a forward-looking Town Hall of the Future. Hosted in...
Slido Culture Code: Who We Are, Why We Exist and What We Believe In
Back in 2013, we all sat together in one room. We didn’t have any windows in the room, but we had our values on the wall. They were that important to us. They reflected who we were and who we still...
The Power of Facilitation at Web Summit: 15,000+ New Connections in Just Two Minutes
We understand that event networking is important for our delegates. More often than not, it’s the main reason why they join our events. We use an arsenal of tools to improve it – event apps,...
How to Plan Your Next Company Hackathon with Slido
When we hosted our very first internal hackathon, it was the ultimate team-bonding experience for the whole company. To show you how it looked in practice and how Slido helped us organize it more...
5 Types of Polls to Open Your Presentations with 15+ Examples
How you interact with your audience during your presentation matters. It has, in fact, become a must-have ability in every public speaker’s arsenal. Your delegates expect interaction and...
Introducing Event Collaborators: Get Help with Managing Slido
Organizing a conference, workshop or all-hands meeting requires teamwork. Thanks to your feedback and our dedicated product team, we are excited to announce the launch of Event Collaborators. As of...
10 Awesome Event Concepts That You Will Want to Duplicate
Event attendees crave experiences that’ll sweep them off their feet. They want to be impressed. This so-called experience economy is what constantly drives the event planners to think up new...
How to Organize an Interactive Masterclass Event
The success of our clients is at the heart of everything we do. To keep our customers informed about product updates and help them make the most of their meetings with Slido, we designed a...
Top 21 Event Blogs That Every #EventProf Must Follow
Staying up to date with the latest industry news and trends means reading a lot. To help you find the best of the game content as well as the hidden gems of the event blogosphere, we scoured the web...
How We Planned Our First Internal Hackathon at Slido
The first internal hackathon we held at Slido turned out to be an unforgettable highlight people have been talking about for weeks later. Having most of our 120-plus-member team under one roof was an...
7 Tips for Creating Networking Opportunities at Your Event
Recent research indicates that 75% of delegates attend conferences to build new connections. Yet, the networking part of events is often reduced to unstructured “mix and mingle” coffee...
How We Designed a Workplace That Promotes Our Team Culture
As we entered the room, the shiny newness and airy rooms overwhelmed our senses. After six months spent in a transitional space, we finally moved into our new office last week. Our team is growing...
Prezi, Zoom, and Slido Share Expert Tips for Engaging Virtual Audiences
“Do you find engaging virtual participants more challenging than attendees in the room?” We asked this question during a recent webinar that we jointly organized with Prezi and Zoom Video...
How to Handle Too Many Questions at Your Conference Q&A
Turn the unanswered questions into a perfect content opportunity to multiply the impact of your...
Jim Ray from Slack: This Is What Our Effective Team Meeting Looks Like
Jim Ray, Slack’s Enterprise Developer Advocate, gives us some “backstage” insights into what communication looks like in a company that has transformed the way companies communicate. One may...
How We Designed Our Big Talk: The Rise of Conversational Presenting
The World Education Congress (WEC) is the TED for event professionals. Ever since we entered the industry, it has been our dream to spread our ideas there. After almost five years, it was a big thing...
3 Tips for Collecting Honest, Critical Feedback from Your Employees
If you want the most critical issues and innovative ideas to come to the surface, don’t wait for your employees to come to you. People need encouragement to say what’s on their minds. Be the...
Why Don’t Participants Want to Ask Questions at Events?
Picture this scene: The presenter finishes their session, the moderator steps on stage and asks the audience: “Are there any questions?” Tumbleweed rolls by as delegates shuffle nervously in...
AV Tips for Running All-Hands Meetings Without a Tech Glitch
Say goodbye to technical issues at your next all-hands meeting with our 8 essential AV...
Why You Should Listen to Your Employees – Lessons from Virgin and Microsoft
Communication is the cornerstone of building trust in relationships. And high performing teams need trust to work effectively. To create a team culture where people feel safe to speak without the...
How to Use Live Polls for a More Engaging Product Demo
Let’s be honest: the days of one-way presentations are numbered. How long do you stay tuned if someone floods you with tons of information without ever addressing what you want to hear about? To...
5 Creative Ideas for More Effective Networking Sessions
Networking is one of the main reasons why people go to events. According to the Forbes Insights survey, 85% of people build stronger, more meaningful relationships during a face-to-face interaction....
An Expert Guide: How to Organize a Killer All-Hands Meeting
All-hands meetings are the cornerstone of transparent culture and team alignment in growing companies. If done right, they can bring immediate benefits for your team. We’ve recently written about...
7 Ways to Make Your Team Meetings More Productive with Slido
How to engage your team during meetings and make them more invested in what's...
How Marks & Spencer Builds Trust and Leads Conversations with Its 86,000 Employees
Senior Employee Communications Manager at Marks & Spencer talks about how Slido helps them have more effective communication in their...
The Art of Organizing Successful Q&A Sessions at Conferences
Many Q&A sessions are like a weather forecast: you know roughly what to expect but you don’t know what you’ll get on the day. But if it is well planned, the Q&A session can become the...
Effective Meetings 101: Lessons from Zoom, Shazam, Asana
The average meeting goer spends 31 hours in unproductive meetings in a single month. Ironically, we try hard to be productive and save minutes in so many areas. But when it comes to meetings, we...
10 Practical Tips for Every Event Moderator
Back in February, when we asked the meeting professionals at our New York City event what role a facilitator plays in their meetings, almost 40% responded that they have one to help with the...
Expert Debate: an Interactive Alternative to a Traditional Keynote Session
Event organizers are always on the lookout for innovative session formats and tips to make their events an unforgettable experience. The organizers of this year’s Festival of Marketing in London...
Making Company Training Interactive: The Story of Our Customer Success Day
Companies care about training. And so do we. According to ASTD, organizations spend more than $156 billion on training in the US alone. With so much effort devoted to training, the big question is:...
Introducing Analytics: More Data, More Insights
At Slido, some of the best ideas come from our customers. And one of the most frequent things we’ve been hearing revolves around the ability to do more with the data you capture during your event....
3 Reasons Why I Replaced Slides with Live Polls
Recently, I got an invitation to deliver a presentation at IMEX in Frankfurt. I’ve been using polls as part of my presentations and webinars for a while. But I have never built an entire...
How to Brief Your Conference Moderator (Tips from Pros)
Organizing an event without briefing a moderator is like sending a tour bus on a journey without informing the driver where you want the passengers to arrive. During our event in New York,...
5 TED Videos That Will Help You Organize Better Meetings
As event professionals, we’re constantly hunting for new ideas that could help us design better meetings. With this in mind, we browsed through the TED archives and discovered a few amazing videos...
Three Exceptional Panels That Sparkled with Interaction
Pulling off an engaging panel discussion is not easy. As an event planner, you need to tick a number of boxes in order to achieve a great result. It starts with a trending topic that will attract a...
How Elon Musk Could Have Avoided the Super Bizarre Q&A Session
As an entrepreneur, when you see a problem that you’ve built an exact solution for, you get so excited that you just want to shout: “Here, here. I can solve your problem. I’ve got the perfect...
5 Essential Pieces of The Audience Engagement Puzzle
The times when participants attended events just to listen to a string of presentations are over. People expect interaction. They want to be part of the experience. But living up to these new...
Platforms and Techniques to Engage Remote Audiences at Virtual Events
To organize a successful virtual event, as an event planner, you need a toolbox that will help you to both bring the content to your online viewers and also engage them. Like the onsite attendees,...
Three Key Elements of Any Successful Virtual Event
Live streaming has been around in the events industry for a long time. What is new, however, is the availability of technology that makes streaming accessible and the quantity of video that is...
5 Ways to Turn Your Next Presentation Into a Conversation
Storytelling has become well-established as the basis for impactful presentations. However, simply telling a story is, in many cases, not enough. With the ubiquity of content, two-way online...
The 7 Most Interactive Sessions We’ve Seen at Innovative Events
As event organizers, we are constantly searching for new creative meeting formats that will wow our audience. We all want to move beyond the one-size-fits-all, been-there-done-that sessions. We want...
Slido Onsite Checklist for Event Organizers
We’re thrilled that you decided to use Slido at your event. In this article, you will find the technical and communication essentials that will help you get the most out of Slido at your event....
Interactive Event Opening to Help Your Attendees Select Breakouts
If you organize an event with multiple tracks, your attendees will sooner than later face the dilemma of which session to attend. As everyone wants to maximize own learning, it is always a tough...
Slido Cheat Sheet for Moderators
When used well, Slido can radically increase audience interaction and transform learning during the sessions you moderate. But to get the most out of it, it’s important to follow a few simple, yet...
Case Studies: How to Organize Interactive Panel Discussions
At one of our workshops, I brought up the topic of panel discussions. The moment I mentioned the word ‘panel’ people rolled their eyes. One of the participants raised a hand and said: “I hate...
4 Quick Hacks To Make Your Conference Sessions More Interactive
Traditional conferences are overflowing with presentations. But how do you ensure that your speakers deliver talks that will engage your audience? Well, unless you coach every one of them as...
What Will The Conferences of The Future Look Like?
What will the conferences of the future look like in 2016 (and beyond)? Are traditional conferences truly dead as some claim? How are delegates’ expectations and needs changing? To offer you a...
7 Conference Icebreakers That Aren’t Awkward
I was sitting in the audience waiting for the panel discussion to begin. It was pretty late in the evening and the energy in the room was low. I was dozing off along with the other 150 attendees. The...
How to Moderate Panels and Q&A Sessions with Slido – Tips for Moderators
I heard this great analogy from a colleague of mine on the role of an event moderator. He told me: “event moderator is like a driver who is able to drive your event happily to its destination or...
Conversational Presentations: The Rise of the Speaker 2.0
Recently, I’ve noticed a flux of articles on how to make presentations more interactive, advising the use of different fancy presentation tools and digital media. I admit I wrote a few articles on...
The Five Golden Rules of Adult Learning Every #EventProf Needs to Know
You know the situation. You bring your delegates to a conference room and seat them in the audience. They cross their arms, put on a teach-me face, and expect presenters to teach them new stuff or...
How to Make Your Conference More Interactive
Recently I’ve attended a renowned conference dedicated to event professionals. Naturally, my expectations were high as I expected event organizers to play their best cards and show off in front of...
Why Presentations Die After 10 minutes and How To Save Them
To deliver a message at your presentation, you naturally need the attention of your audience. According to biologist John Medina, given a presentation of moderately interesting content, your...
5 Ways To Get Rid Of Stress Before Public Speaking
The US comedian, Jerry Seinfeld made a joke about public speaking anxiety. “I read a thing that actually says that speaking in front of a crowd is considered the number one fear of the average...
Interview: Stories are food of the brain says speaker coach Nathan Gold
Nathan Gold is a professional coach training people around the world to deliver more compelling presentations and memorable product demonstrations. He has an impressive 15.000 presentations and...
7 Tips on How to Prepare a Live Poll That Will Captivate Your Audience
Live polls can be an effective tool for instantly engaging with your audience. They encourage participants to not only read your questions but also think about what the best answer should be based on...
5 Tips For Using Live Polls to Create a Really Engaging Prezi
You have designed a stunning Prezi, perfected your speech and now you are ready to rock the room. But you still feel there is something missing. How can you truly engage your audience and make them...
10 Tips For Networking Like a Pro
With hundreds of people around, conference networking often feels overwhelming. To get the most out of it, you need to craft your networking strategy carefully. Below we share 10 tips for effective...
