People who want to organise interactions and voting, Q&A sessions and the like very often think of Mentimeter or slido and forget that there are also excellent IT solutions "Made in Germany" - for example TEDME. Yet TEDME, Mentimeter and slido were developed around the same time many years ago. Read this article to find out what distinguishes the Mentimeter alternative TEDME from other voting and interaction tools.
What Mentimeter and sli.do have in common with TEDME
Let's take a quick look at what the Mentimeter alternative TEDME and the other tools have in common. You can use them to implement voting and interactive sessions. Browser-based, you can involve your audience in live polls. Participants can vote on your questions, type in their questions or comments, create word clouds and conduct quizzes and Q&A sessions. In short, you can make your presentations more interactive and therefore more attractive.
What looks so identical at first glance is actually quite different in detail.
Differences between Mentimeter, sli.do and TEDME
Mentimeter, sli.do and TEDME are quite different in detail, as you can see from the list of features listed here alone.
There are particularly large differences
- with the integrations and interfaces
- the role concept and the focus on use in large companies
- with regard to authentication and the organisation of elections
- during tracking
- in the type of support
- and data protection.
The integrations with Mentimeter, sli.do and TEDME
Thanks to the interfaces, the APIs, TEDME can be easily integrated into other IT tools and vice versa.
The webinar mode: Stream, Zoom or Webex meeting integration or slide transmission to the participants
There is an integration with TEDME - the Mentimeter alternative - for both Zoom and WebEx. If you activate the "Webinar mode" in the TEDME settings for this presentation, you can enter the URL of a Zoom meeting or a WebEx meeting or the link of any livestream.
The advantage for your participants: They only log in once - to your TEDME room and have the Zoom or Webex meeting, the live stream or even the slides of the presentation in a single view within TEDME in their browser.
The transfer of names to the chat module
In order for Zoom or WebEx to display the participant name within the session just presented, these tools usually ask your participants for their name again. But with TEDME, your participants can also be present live in your meeting and in your surveys with their name - thanks to the API. This transfer of information from a higher-level tool also works for other applications. For example, when registering via your existing IT solution for participant management or when registering via an event platform.
You can also find out more in the article Operating tools in parallel is a thing of the past - how to integrate TEDME into your event platform.
What is the situation with the other two voting tools?
Like TEDME, Slido can also be integrated into your existing tools via API and used with most common video conferencing and live streaming tools as well as in event platforms. Conversely, you can call up Mentimeter as an app with Zoom and MS Teams, for example, and Slido as an app with WebEx. However, Mentimeter only offers single sign-on from the Enterprise solution onwards.
The role concept and the focus on use in large companies
TEDME specialises in the needs of large companies and corporations. In other words, TEDME knows the requirements of large companies and institutions - with regard to security, the handling of sensitive data and internal structures. The latter can be seen, for example, in the fact that you can assign customised access rights for each department in your company. For example, you can assign and carry out many different events and their access to the interaction tool internally in a clearly organised manner. You can also use these granularly assignable access rights:
- carry out individual projects in separate organisational units,
- Appoint project administrators for each organisational unit, who in turn can invite and manage moderators with customised user rights themselves,
- work in a team,
- Make central documents available to other departments
- and make entire lectures available to different users.
Other features of TEDME that are particularly relevant for companies:
- High reliability thanks to two server systems
- Complete renunciation of tracking cookies such as Google Analytics & Co,
- Compatible with firewalls and internal company security requirements,
- Server location Germany.
This dedicated focus on the needs of large companies and working in departments and therefore the allocation of roles, in terms of rights per user but also in terms of the distribution of which user has access to which departments/accounts, is probably only found in a less extensive version with other interaction and voting tool providers.
The authentication and dialling module of TEDME
Do you need a legally compliant module for organising your online elections? One that includes authentication? Then TEDME is the right choice for you - thanks to the TEDME Auth module. It includes participant management and combines this with voting for your votes or elections. This ensures that only those participants who belong to the invited group of participants take part in the vote. Whether authenticated or secret voting - the Auth module makes your elections possible and secure. Of course, it also includes vote weighting, proxy authorisations and export of voting results. This enables you to store the data securely on your servers long after your event.
Take a look at the Auth module a closer look.
Tracking with Mentimeter, sli.do and TEDME
Even though we would very much like to learn more about user behaviour on our own website, the protection of your data and secure, tracking-free login to our website for all your participants is extremely important to us. That is why we do not use any tracking tools at all - even on our website, which participants use to log in for an event, among other things. This clearly sets us apart from our competitors.
Support for Mentimeter, sli.do and TEDME
Would you like German-speaking support? Someone you can call during your office hours? With a direct extension and without a chatbot or anonymous hotline? TEDME offers you exactly that.
With sli.do, on the other hand, you receive the following support:
- Online helpdesk: Search and find detailed articles.
- Video tutorials: Take a product tour.
- Live chat: On working days.
- In an emergency or urgent matter, please call +1 650 282 1729.
Would you like to call a hotline in an emergency in the USA?
With Mentimenter, the support looks like this:
- Enterprise customers: Find a contact form on the Enterprise page.
- Help centre: An online library.
- E-mail: hello@mentimeter.com
- Twitter: @mentimeter
- Support: To do this, log into the app and receive app text message support.
Hand on heart - would you like to go there for help with urgent questions?
Data protection and data security at TEDME
TEDME attaches great importance to data protection and data security. The GDPR is the standard and framework in Germany for all actions that you and we take in connection with data. That is why you need a GDPR-compliant solution. For us, this also means that the servers on which we store and process your data are located in Germany. You can find out more about this in our Privacy policy under point 4 see.
Hosting looks a little different with Mentimeter and slido.
Mentimeter processes and stores data on servers from AWS - Amazon Web Service and Heroku, a service from SalesForce - a publicly traded company in the United States. They have configured their solution to be stored in the US-East-1 region, North Virginia, USA.
Slido is now a part of Cisco WebEx and communicates the following on the WebEx website: Because Cisco is a global company, we may transfer your personal data to Cisco in the United States, to one of Cisco's globally distributed subsidiaries, or to third parties and business partners described above located in various countries around the world. By using our websites and solutions or providing personal data, you consent to the extent permitted by applicable law and accept that such data may be transferred to, processed or stored at a destination outside your country of residence, where different data protection standards may apply.
Conclusion
Even if the tools appear very similar at first glance, there are major differences in the details.
We have also compiled an overview of what sets TEDME apart from numerous other interaction and voting tools. To forward to interested colleagues or as an argumentation template for you. More about the USPs of TEDME.
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