Conduit vs. Slate Share Overview
Unlike most one-off webcasting tools, Conduit provides higher education professionals with the tools and resources to integrate online engagement throughout their traditional outreach efforts. In a typical webinar solution, your audience is required to do a number of tasks which create friction throughout the process; including registering in advance and being asked to provide information that is already in your Technolutions Slate CRM. Below are some key considerations when evaluating if Slate Share is the right tool to support your yield and conversion goals.
Expert Planning and Support
Unlike other “canned” online tools, Conduit comes with an extension of your team in the form of expert online event planning specialists that support you every step of the way with services that include:
- Event scheduling strategies that are aligned with your overall outreach plans
- Pre-event communication planning and promotion execution
- The opportunity to leverage Q-Mail and Q-Message to amplify your message to your target audience
- Pre-event Audio/Visual support to ensure the highest quality presentation possible
- Setup and monitoring of live events
- Post-event review and follow-up strategy support
No other online engagement software in the industry includes Conduit’s greatest feature: the experts who are there to ensure your success every step of the way.
On-Demand and Simulive Access
Webinar platforms may record your presentation content, however, making that content accessible to your audience for “on-demand” viewing may be complex. In addition to providing your audience with easy-to-access and institutionally branded on-demand access, Conduit allows you to schedule “simulive” events, where your content is scheduled to play on a loop with an accompanying live online chat. This enables to you to host a presentation as if it is live, without the time commitment of all presenters to be available for multiple presentations.
Social Media Streaming
While a typical webinar platform may allow for your content to be streamed via an institutionally-branded web page, most do not go a step further and allow for your content to be broadcast across Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Conduit’s Enhanced Simulcast feature allows you to host live webcasts live in your institutionally-branded environment as well as expand to social media to broaden your reach.
Chat Functionality
While some one-off webinar platforms have a “chat” function built into their user experience, it is often hard to use in conjunction with a live event and unable to be extended to re-play viewing. Campus Connect is integrated into the Conduit experience and can also be extended to anywhere your institution has a presence on the web (specific web pages on your .edu, lead generation sites, microsites, etc.). Additionally, Campus Connect allows you to post office hours as well as collect offline questions. Along with these questions comes a student’s contact information, helping you identify anonymous web traffic and capture organic interest.
Accessibility
Ensuring web-based content representing your higher education institution is Section 508 compliant will continue to rise in importance as greater scrutiny will be placed on institutions receiving federal funding. This includes any webcasting or site chat tools developed by outside vendors. It is important to request your vendor’s VPAT compliance statements to ensure your tools are meeting student needs. Here is our VPAT Compliance information.
Privacy
Given restrictive privacy laws in the EU (GDPR), it is important to understand how data is being managed and the rights of your student audience … particularly when recruiting internationally. Your team should seek to understand your online engagement platform provider’s policies for data protection with respect to GDPR compliance. Here is our GDPR statement.
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