Seminars, lectures and presentations are important modes of sharing existing knowledge and dwelling on new and innovative ideas. These are regularly conducted by almost all the organizations to make sure that the new thoughts keep on coming while the existing ideas are best utilized. Since these are so necessary, hence it is almost inevitable to participate and communicate through these. However, a lot of time and money are spent which largely discourage the participation as well. Webinars are very effective to counter these problems while providing an effective source of communication at the same time.
Fame and money are the key drivers to any organization and its success and failure. Fame may be achieved by being known and getting to as many people as possible, but with positive virtues and connotation. This is key factor which determines the success and back account of an organization. One must try and build contacts which is done through building email lists while promoting a virtual event like a webinar. A number of steps that are mentioned in the chapters are effective and necessary for building a huge email lists that could provide essential profits. Webinars allow you to interact with other members or public over the internet in a large number. Interaction of these people or the participants of the webinar are just like the participants in a seminar where a participant asks a question from the presenter or the lecturer.
Video conferencing is more or less the same thing, but it allows only a small number or group of people to communicate at the same time. Webinars on the other hand, allow a larger public to communicate effectively, but it does come with the additional cost of software and hardware capability requirements.
Participants need to have PCs or laptops with working high speed internet connections as the basic hardware requirement to participate in the webinars. They also need to have the same software as the one with the presenter, which can be easily downloaded from the internet or may be provided by the presenting authority or organization.
A number of people feel that the webinars are only a one way mode of communication and they discourage participation from the people. However, the one way presentations or lectures are more appropriately called webcasts. As far as the quality of communication or interaction is concerned, many presenters include question and answer or polling sessions in between or at the end of the webinar to improve the participation. While the IP/TCP is a basic requirement for a webinar VoIP is not and hence the question and answer or polling session must be preferred in the text form.