Slidefy To Share Conference Presentations
Slidefy is a new Finnish service that targets a niche need with their offering. In essence, it's a slide sharing solution, but targeted at conference organisers and the like. Slidefy will work in such a way that conference organisers collect attendees' e-mails before the event and send them a link to the material the speaker has provided in advance. Then, during the presentation, users can focus on the actual presentation and not jot down points the speaker makes.
Slidefy is developed by Fijaco Oy, which is a company creating "global internet solutions", according to their press release. The app itself has been coded by Koodiviidakko Oy, an Oulu based development house.
The part of Slidefy that doesn't quite click with me is that it's essentially the same service as Slideshare, a hugely popular site for sharing presentation material. Slidefy points out that you're able to follow the material on many different devices including mobiles and tablets.
The company has a few different pricing options available. The free option enables you to send your presentation to two receivers, while the first paid option for 69€ (VAT not included) will enable you to share as many presentations to as many receivers as you want regarding a single event and the final option for 139€ a month does not have any limitations on the amount events, receivers or presentations what so ever.
Just by looking at Slidefy's offering, I have a hard time understanding what the key competitive advantage is to other alternatives out there and what makes it so much better that users or conference organisers would want to pay for it. Also, being an event organiser myself, it's not certain all speakers will want to share their material in such an open way so the Slidefy would probably work better in seminars and lecture setups.
It's a clean product with a niche offering, but I feel it's still a bit too far from the clear value I should be able to see immediately as an event organiser that would make me let go of my hard earned money in exchange for their service.
Couldn't agree more. I don't see ANY way in which this service differentiates from Slideshare, which I would assume totally owns the market. The only way you normally see new companies tap into a market like that is by focusing on just one core feature (none of the extra stuff that slideshare is doing), doing that ridiculously well and offering it against a highly competitive price. I don't see how they are doing the core of "hosting slides" better than slideshare, and on top of that price is much higher. I wish them all the best, but I don't see this flying.
I would like to point out a few features that make Slidefy.com unique and more useful than competitive services.
- First of all there are no ads because Slidefy.com is a professional service. Therefore you can be sure your audience is focused on your message, not the competitor’s.
- One of the best features of Slidefy.com is the email that the audience receives. In this email you can find the links to the latest event’s presentations but under that there are links to all the events and presentations that has ever been sent to that email address from Slidefy.com. The latest Slidefy.com email is in fact an archive of all my own presentations.
- Slidefy.com is a tool for the event organizers who after signing up to Slidefy.com will get a My Slidefy account to manage all his events. When the launch time of an event has been set in future it can be modified (add/delete presentations or receivers) until the launch time. The audience can return to the presentations anytime, anywhere and with any handset. The presentations remain available for the audience forever unless the event organizer decides to delete them from her My Slidefy account.
I wish you would take another look at Slidefy.com and use the free trial to see how great it really works. Thank you for taking the time to get to know our service and for this great web page of yours!
BR, Sofia Liukkonen, CEO, Fijaco Ltd.