With our Interactive Webinars series, we’ve been exploring the concept of building highly interactive elements into virtual meetings and webinars. We invite anyone who is interested in exploring these ideas with us to engage in an interactive experience of creative thinking about ways to design collaborative activities in what is too often a one on many, presentation heavy format. Our series continues this month with more opportunities to collaborate on ideas about designing interactive webinars and virtual meetings. We’ve got two great webinars planned for July.
Design Interactive Webinars & Virtual Meetings that Keep People Engaged
Thursday, July 8th at 8:00 AM PDT (11:00 AM EDT; 4:00 PM BST) – Pre-work required; limited to 20 participants. Register now.
The one-way nature of most webinars and web conferences misses an opportunity to engage an audience and draw on the wisdom of the group. As the use of web conferencing extends to management training and leadership development, online workshops and virtual meetings, the requirements shift from pushing information out to pulling ideas and knowledge in through many-to-many collaboration and interaction. This requires a new look at the design and facilitation of virtual meetings and webinars and the technology tools used to deliver them.
In this one hour webinar – with required pre-work – we will discuss and demonstrate eight principles for designing interactive webinars and virtual meetings that prepare and engage participants. This webinar is particularly suited for facilitators and trainers who are looking to transition an existing face-to-face workshop to a virtual environment or to include some virtual elements in a blended design.
If this topic interests you, click here to download the accompanying white paper. Register now.
How to Use Breakout Groups to Add Pizazz to Your Webinars and Virtual Meetings
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 at 10:00 AM PDT (1:00 PM EDT, 6:00 PM BST). Register now.
Can you use breakout groups to keep 15 or 1500 participants fully engaged in a virtual meeting? Absolutely!
This interactive webinar will explore the use of breakout groups as a way to keep virtual meeting or webinar participants busy and engaged. We will share meeting design ideas as well as facilitation tips and techniques for productive use of breakout groups during a real time virtual event as well as for pre-work activities. This webinar will give you a hands-on experience of breakout groups in action with a demonstration of the interaction of FacilitatePro web meeting software and the conferencing service MaestroConference. All participants will need access to a telephone (or SkypeOut) and the Internet during our session; headsets recommended. There will be a brief amount of pre-work required. Register now.
Got questions? Contact: Julia Young.
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