Making the Most of Webinars – Harvard Business Review
As the technology improves, many educational and other meetings are being offerred as Webinars.
This a great improvement over flying around the countryside to attend in person
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if the organisers design the content with the webinar format in mind, and
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if the participants don’t take the opportunity to play Angry Birds or to get their email to ‘InBox Zero’.
This article in Harvard Business Review provides a guide to making the most of Webinars.
For participants
- Make sure you choose Webinars likely to be of value to you
- Watch with a group
- Take notes as if you have to teach the subject to others
- Use the technology to ask questions, and use the webinar to network.
For organisers
- Choose topics carefully
- Focus on training
- Create opportunites for dialog
- Provide incentives for participants to demonstrate their mastery