How Does a Webinar Work?
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The Basic Webinar Process
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Businesses use webinars when they need to make presentations to a group of people spread out over a large geographical area.The process involves the presenters designing the presentation and uploading the data to an online service or preparing the software that will be used to give the presentation. The audience for a webinar logs on the website that hosts the presentation at a set time. The presenters give the seminar. The audience logs onto the hosting site at the presentation time to view a live presentation.
A webinar blends the interactive technologies of teleconferencing, the web and presentation software to produce an interactive multimedia seminar. Most webinars require participants to have a flash player installed on their computer for the full multimedia experience.
Webinar Hosting Services
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Webinar hosting services allow businesses to give online presentations when they do not own the necessary equipment. Organizations that frequently hold online seminars may find that it is more effective to purchase the necessary hardware than to use a hosting service. Factors that effect the cost include bandwidth, the amount of people using the seminar and the service the presenters choose to host the webinar.
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Live Presentations or On Demand Services?
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Live webinars allow the viewers to interact with the presenters and ask questions about the material. The audience for live webinars can only view the presentation a single time. If the people giving the seminar decide to make a live webinar available on demand, a member of the audience or anyone else with access to the hosting site, can view it at any time.
Some online presentation hosting services, such as Qualityconn.com, provide Power Point slides and audio presentations that webinar viewers can download. The presenters often make a Power Point file and the audio for the presentation available for users to download. Viewers can transfer to these files directly to their computer and view them even when they do not have an active Internet connection. This method also saves the presenters and the audience a great deal of money on travel expenses.
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