Comments on: Webinar Follow-Up Best Practice?

By: Joby Blume

Joby Blume — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:16:31 +0000

Dean, fair point. We run our webinars at different times – but really for the European and North American markets. Which is kind of crazy as the guy in BrightCarbon who presents a lot of them is in Singapore – maybe we should schedule some for Asia and Australia/NZ.

They are worth getting up for – but I understand why you might not want to…

Our slides don’t make sense without a presenter – so we couldn’t just send out the slides without narration, and nor would we want to. But we could make the entire 30-minute webinar available on-demand. We choose not to as it does conflict somewhat with trying to get people to the live event, and also because most people won’t find time to watch 30 minutes, but might find time for 10 minutes.

Our recordings do seem to have grown. We aim for something short, but often find they are nearer to 10 minutes now for the condensed version of a 30 minute event.

PS Dean, I found your company website and blog. You should blog again – only one every six months or so, but they are better posts than 99% of the crap that gets written about presentations.

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:08:25 +0000

Remember also, the web (your webinar) is a global market and the earth is … you know … round. So it’s not always convenient for everyone to join your webinar when it’s scheduled … for your convenience, which is fair enough.

So I often sign up KNOWING I’m not getting up at 4:00am to watch it live.

Regards condensing your 30 min press into a 5 min Brainshark, perfect idea. It’s analogous as to why you shouldn’t send anyone a copy of your complete slides pre or post event. Besides, if designed correctly they should be almost useless absent the context of a live presenter.

By: Joby Blume

Joby Blume — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:13:23 +0000

Thanks for the comment Greg.

Webinar recordings are just not a good way to view slides. Hard to navigate, often slow-paced delivery, and a weird sense of having been better live.

Thanks for sharing.

By: Greg Sweet

Greg Sweet — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:58:46 +0000

Well said. I deal with quite a few requests to host webinars just to capture a recording. I always remind people that webinar is for live events, and if the intent is to create a self-paced resource, there are better tools — tools designed to create self-paced resources — available for the job.

I’ll be referring a lot of folks to this post!