| According to Wikipedia, a webinar is a term to | | | | ignored. Chief among them are: |
| describe a kind of web conferencing for | | | | - Incredible savings for a company as its |
| conducting live meetings, trainings, presentations, | | | | employees will not have to travel from various |
| etc., via the Internet. The presenter or host | | | | places to attend training sessions. |
| communicates with the participants, lets them | | | | - Reduces travel time. |
| view the presentations, allows them to ask | | | | - Increases productivity. |
| questions and engage in a discussion. | | | | - Helps the company to make decisions faster. |
| Webinars can be either one-way where the | | | | - Reduces unproductive time. |
| speaker speaks to the audience with limited | | | | - Improves management communication. |
| interaction from the participant's end or it can be | | | | - Allows for greater participation and teamwork |
| a collaborative effort with polling, Q&A sessions | | | | by reaching out to a larger audience. |
| enabling full participation between the audience and | | | | - Avoids administrative hassles associated with |
| the speaker or presenter. Webinars, held via the | | | | Instructor Led training. |
| Internet, offer the advantage to both the | | | | - Accessibility to view documents, diagrams and |
| participant and the presenter to attend or hold | | | | illustrations from the comforts of one's PC. |
| sessions from the convenience of their personal | | | | - Review prerecorded or archived presentations. |
| location, such as their home or office. | | | | - Easy sign up and login. |
| If the company does not want its employees to | | | | - Real time feedback. |
| spend a whole day in training, webinars can be | | | | A webinar is also a fantastic way to interact with |
| held for short durations like an hour or two to | | | | prospective clients, unable to meet face-to-face, |
| focus on urgent training needs. The key feature | | | | that are interested in learning more about the |
| of a webinar is its range of interactive | | | | products or services of a service company. Very |
| elements-where one can give, receive and discuss | | | | much like meetings held in a conference room, |
| information in contrast to other options where | | | | webinars offer an added benefit of allowing |
| data transmission is one-way and a lack of | | | | participants to listen to informative audio about |
| interaction exists between the presenter and the | | | | the product or service via a telephone, interact |
| audience. | | | | with presenter or speaker and ask questions in |
| The benefits of webinars are too many to be | | | | real-time. |