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Choosing the Right Valotalive App: My Content vs. PowerPoint or Google Slides
Choosing the Right Valotalive App: My Content vs. PowerPoint or Google Slides

Need a publication tool? Compare My Content Channel to PowerPoint app or Google Slides app and find the best fit for your needs

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Written by Steven
Updated over a week ago

Picking the right app for your use case comes down to a few simple questions.

  • Do you want to have the ability to schedule content?

  • Do you want control of the language?

  • Would you prefer to keep using a tool your team is already familiar with?

My Content Channel offers more flexibility in terms of scheduling posts, page time settings, and automatic cleanup tools. It also allows for immediate content upload and supports various languages for settings.

PowerPoint and Google Slides Apps are better suited for editing presentations in shared folders and offer unlimited possibilities for designing content. However, they lack features like scheduling posts, page time settings, and automatic cleanup. Additionally, both apps only support English for settings.

Below you'll find a comparison of the 3 apps which should help you decide which is right for you:
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Features

My Content Channel

Powerpoint App

Google Slides App

Ease of setup

Easy

Medium,

might require admin approval for authentication

Easy

Ease of use

Easy

Easy

+ most likely no need to learn new tools

Easy

+ most likely no need to learn new tools

Sheduling of posts

(dd.mm.yyyy mm:hh - dd.mm.yyyy mm:hh)

Configurable per presentation

Not configurable per presentation-level;

can be configuraded via Flow, but only per App

Not configurable per presentation-level;

can be configuraded via Flow, but only per App

Page time settings (duration)

Configurable per page

Same for all pages

Same for all pages

Automatic cleanup

My Content App offers wide variety of automatic cleanup tools

n/a

n/a

Content Upload to server

Immediate

(as long as it takes to upload the file)

Polling for changes in every 15 minutes

Polling for changes in every 15 minutes

Edit presentations in shared folders

No

Yes, you can share files in OneDrive or SharePoint

Yes, you can share file or folder of files in Google Drive

Possibilities to design your content / post in the desired way

Limited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Send messages instantly from your phone

Posts done using the Mobile is possible

Possible in theory but highly unlikely

Possible in theory but highly unlikely

Video supported

Yes

No

No

Language Options for Settings

Supported languages are English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish, Polish and Finnish

Only English supported

Only English supported

User account in Dashboard needed

No

Yes

Yes

Edit the app settings from your homescreen

Yes, you can install the My Content Channel to your desktop and edit the settings from there

No, you have to edit the settings from the Valotalive Dashboard

No, you have to edit the settings from the Valotalive Dashboard


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