Kifi vs V London City

Get your team on the same (web)page. Keep. Find. Discuss.

Kifi is the best way to organize knowledge for yourself or your team.

In addition to managing team knowledge around document files, role-specific tasks and team chat, Kifi brings in a new type of increasingly important knowledge that is anchored to content on the open web. The Kifi service lets employees “Keep” Web pages in “Libraries” that are public or private to the team. Users can also add valuable context, including conversations, ideas and questions, right alongside the web page. With full-text indexing, Kifi we are making it easy to find any Web resource that has been kept by the team.

Many great companies are working in the knowledge management space, including Slack, Convo and Yammer. However, nobody has made a real investment in managing Web content, which is arguably the most important of all, given how much of our work is done via the Web.

So Kifi allows you to:
• Easily keep, tag, and annotate Web pages. Kifi indexes the entire content of that page and makes it available from search, even on Google.
• Collaborate with colleagues by building public, private, or team libraries. All of your libraries of keeps are automatically accessible and searchable by all members as soon as they join. It’s great for onboarding new employees!
• Create contextual chats, each one unique to the page it’s on.

In November, Kifi is introducing Kifi for Teams which includes:
• Easy Collaboration. Create a Library, where you can put all of your research. Updates instantly with any changes by any member of the team.
• Slack integration. Anything you save in a Kifi Library will be automatically channeled on Slack.
• On-Page Chat. If you want to send a single web page to your whole team, you can do that with the click of a button. You can also chat with your whole team at once, in context on the page.
• Full-text Search. Everything your team members collect is easily found right in Google using our Chrome and Firefox extensions, or in our mobile apps.
• Privacy settings: You can control whether your team libraries are public or private, and which team members are collaborators. Some of our users who have many clients themselves have found this one of the most useful features, because it enables them to share ideas and content with clients.

Visit , Know & Explore London

Why did you create VLondonCity?

We felt that the other options out there just weren’t doing it for us. They were either too bloated and outdated or pushing some agenda. The amount of free lunches that go on behind the scenes of successful reviews on big sites… You would be surprised at how much grease the wheel gets, lets just say that. We thought we could look at things from the outside and provide a fresh insight and that’s just what we did. The consumers seem to appreciate it too.

Why did you choose London over every other city?
Three reasons. First of all, we all live here. It’s an area that we know very well and have the expertise to really cover. When you’ve seen many of the best attractions in person before you even get to researching, it really does help. Second, it’s one of the very best in the world, a really diverse and accepting place. There are few cities that can wow us as consistency as London does. Lastly, because it’s a place where innovation can thrive. It’s a ruthless city, but also one that will welcome the bold.

Do you feel that being from the area is a big advantage?
Definitely so. Our lead writer is pretty passionate about the city and it makes a difference. They’ve been to so many of the places you would never read about anywhere else, which is why we’re able to show so many hidden gems. When you live and breath every inch of a city, showing it off to the world is a lot more simple.

Who the target market for VLondonCity?
Everyone really, but particularly those that want to go off the beaten track. For those that just want to see the typical sights and do it without hassle, maybe ignorance is bliss. Anyone who wants to see what the capital really has to offer though, would do well to read about the attractions we list. You’ll find some real surprises in there: our writers are very much in touch with the city and its secrets.

If you could go back and do it all again, would you do anything differently?
We probably wouldn't have tried to run before we could walk. It was immensely daunting at first, to see all of those blank categories waiting to be filled, all needing research and photography. Specialising early on, and really focussing on one at a time would have allowed us to be more specific with our marketing. In the end it worked out, but there was a time when it looked like we might crumble under the weight of our own ambition.