Whova

Bewertung

Vorteile:

Die Software ist ganz einfach zu bedienenden

Nachteile:

Keine Nachteile die mir aufgefallen sind

Event Management Done Well

Kommentare: I’ve attended 7 or 8 virtual conferences through Whova and always found it easy to use and keep track of where I needed to be. Communication with other attendees and speakers is easy. I enjoy using the app.

Vorteile:

I am an attendee so my answers are from that perspective. Whova is easy to navigate and find information I need to decide which sessions I want to attend. There are mechanisms for sending questions to the speakers ahead of time. There is a good social platform so that attendees can do virtual meetups and see who else is attending. It is easy for an attendee to create a discussion topic or recommend and article or conference. Entries to questions and polls are propagated quickly through the system so there is no confusion about whether I have entered a response to a poll. I love the Leaderboard function. It encourages attendees to post on the platform and is a nice distraction from the serious nature of the conference.

Nachteile:

There is limited ability to respond or add anything other than text to most questions. For example, I wanted to let fellow attendees know about an upcoming conference but my only choice was to enter text to describe it. I had some graphics from the PR Kit associated with the conference that it would have been nice to upload but I could not find a way to do that.

Summary Post Conference

Kommentare: Very good for a conference. Really liked the scan QR code to get info on participants.

Vorteile:

Ease of use, good functionality for conferences with plenary speaker, breakout sessions, tracks

Nachteile:

Sometimes a bit difficult to navigate, but once used it a few times became easy. But at first there was a learning curve. If a short event, may not be enough time to learn all the functions. But I am not a techy so perhaps it was a user issue!

Beware of Use

Kommentare: We will not be using this app again and I recommend that others don't use it either. The sales folks are very much about the upgrades and will nickel and dime you for every small add on. The help desk folks try to be helpful, but are up against the tremendous limitations of the system. This is overall a product that is engineered to make money rather than support the success of the users. We knew this going in and were happy to pay for some add ons, but others were not communicated at all at any point during the process much less in any help or FAQ documents.

Vorteile:

While there are some pros, the cons by far overshadow anything good about this app. I was excited to use Whova as I used it as an attendee for other events. However, from the admin side, things are not as pleasant.

Nachteile:

There are many features that cannot be turned off. There are emails that go out to attendees without notice. Definitions vary from the proposal stage to the implementation stage: a speaker is also considered an attendee, although they may not attend and just need to be listed on the paper presentation. The most frequent response from their Help Desk begins with "Unfortunately..."

Nice conference app

Vorteile:

It did not crash at any point. MOst other conference apps I have used have crashed and required me to reboot or unload and reload the app.

Nachteile:

Could not find my payment receipt in the app.