Webex Events (Formerly Socio)

Easy-to-use, comprehensive tool with great support team

Avantages :

Socio (WebEx) is easy to use and offers a comprehensive variety of features. However, it's not overwhelming like many of the other tools on the market seemed. For a marketing team with no developer planning our annual conference, it let us do our jobs without any extra help, and pull off a fantastic event that far exceeded everyone's expectations. We couldn't have done without Socio.

Inconvénients :

The backend navigation is a little clunky, but you get used to it.

In the busy world of Marketing, Webex (Socio) helps simplify the event management!

Commentaires : Easy, simple, more features than we actually use but I like that their are so many possibilities.

Avantages :

The customer service response time , set up ease, and the one-stop shop factor! We direct all of our attendees to the app when running our conference.

Inconvénients :

n/a Anything I haven't liked or thought could be better I have made known to the support team and they have added it to their hopper for discussion. Some things have actually been updated and rolled out.

Best Suited for all occasion

Commentaires : I have been organizing and attending meetings using Webex. It was much better than the other existing apps and majorly the disconnectivity during presentation issue is resolved.This app gives you comfortable feeling when you are presenting a meeting & you can smoothly complete it.

Avantages :

Its a good app with the clear audio and picture presentation. It has highly recommended features like polling, notifying the host and background change.It also works very well with poor network connection so you don't have to worry if you are attending meetings during traveling or in remote area.This UI is best suited for large scale presentation and it also providing robust and healthy service for users.It is simple to understand and can be used by students eaily.

Inconvénients :

It took little much time to switch the camera and it get stuck sometime even if we have a good WI-FI connection while switching.The screen ratio need to be improved and sometimes if it get stuck by either bug or due to network issue , you have to completely close the app and reopen again.

Use a better provider than WebEx

Commentaires : We signed up at the start of the pandemic, when all videoconferencing providers were looking for ways to handle the effects of the pandemic, but my company is currently switching away from WebEx, we all complain about it regularly. The main reason we chose WebEx was the fact that attendees were not required to download software, but based on how the usability is, that's not a big deal for us anymore, plus a lot of people now have Zoom or Teams downloaded. It took a lot of use getting use to WebEx, it wasn't very intuitive. The support has been lackluster when we've encountered issues.

Avantages :

The video quality was okay. The fact that downloading a program is not required for attendees.

Inconvénients :

User functionality/ease of use, scheduling and calendar events, the website, support, how hosting the events is handled with user accounts.

A great, easy to set-up and manage events platform"

Commentaires : We used Webex Events to improve participant engagement and reduce staff time for a non-profit's annual 24-hour ski marathon. The app enabled us to put a lot of different participant materials in a single, continually updated location (agenda, rules, announcements, hour-by-hour results, etc.) enabling our staff to spend much less time printing and distributing materials and much more time engaging with participants. The athletes loved the app because they could see their results in real time and track how they and their teammates were doing in real time.

Avantages :

We evaluated several different event platforms, and Socios seemed like the easiest to set-up and manage. We first tried to use another platform and that proved too difficult so we pivoted back to Socio (which was more expensive, but worth it in the end.) As a board member of a small, community-based non-profit that produces an annual 24-hour skiing event, we wanted an application to improve participant engagement and reduce work for staff. The results we got in our first year with the Socio / Webex events app were phenomenal.Over half of our 600 athletes used the app over the two days of our 24-hour ski marathon, totaling over 23,000 minutes of usage! The built-in features of the app around Agenda, Announcements, and Participant networking were easy to set up and delivered a lot of value in reducing work on our staff.Even more impressive was how easy it was for us to seamlessly integrate with additional content to deliver a highly-tailored experience to our attendees -- the Web link feature is extremely valuable (especially the ability to pass External ID to a URL), and our athletes were able to continually see their progress in a custom "achievements" web page we built (~2300 clicks from ~280 users), as well as pull up the individual and team rankings in real-time from our race-timing vendor (another 6600 clicks cross 280 users). Additionally, our ability to embed documents and text content made the Event App a one-stop place for rules, instructions and other key details

Inconvénients :

There are some small downsides, especially for folks on a tight budget. These include extra costs for API access, branded apps (in IOS / Android store), etc. Also, once you set up an external ID for a participant it's difficult to change