5 Tips To An Interactive Webinar
In most cases, people don’t want their presentations to be boring. One of the best ways to keep things interesting is to make a presentation an interactive one and Webinar” rel=”tag”>webinars offer a wide range of tools to make this possible. Here are five ways a webinar can help you deliver your message, all while getting the participants involved.
1. Greeting with Pictures – At the beginning of a lot of meetings, participants are asked to “go around the room” and introduce themselves. While this can be effective, it’s hardly energizing. Why not have everyone submit a picture of themselves before the meeting. Then put the pictures on a PowerPoint slideshow – on slow – and while participants talk about themselves, you can display their pictures.
2. Use application sharing – How does it normally go when a group of people needs to produce one document or report? Usually, a bare bones version is made and copied, each person works on his or her copy and one person collates it all together. Using application sharing in a webinar, everyone can add their part at the same time and go over the whole document together.
3. Everyone is There – Usually, the people that can be available for a meeting are in the meeting, meaning that if you unexpectedly needed someone else’s expertise, it would have to wait. With webinars, the entire world can attend if you’d like. Going over numbers and need Corporate’s input? Have them join the webinar! Need the boss’s approval, but they are in Cancun? Get them to briefly join in.
4. Chat Away – In the conference room, chatting or texting is usually frowned upon, but in a webinar, it should be encouraged! Use the chat feature of your webinar to post the topic you are about to segue to. Encourage people to post questions when they think of them. You can work the answer into your presentation, or just have a list to go through at the end.
5. Not Bored, Whiteboard – The whiteboard is exactly what its name implies: a board that’s clean, open for possibilities, and white. Leave the whiteboard feature up during your presentation and allow people to scribble notes, comments and questions there. Put up part of a diagram or flowchart and have people fill in the necessary details. The possibilities are as open as the pristine board itself.
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