I want to thank you all for attending our first attempt at offering a webinar. It wasn't without it's hiccups. After a discussion with our CB, we decided to go ahead and try this again. We will be offering our 2nd State meeting CEU evening in October. For those of you who have tried using this type of format, what have you found has worked and hasn't worked.
The hard-learned lessons we saw:
1. Most carriers offer the audio via the computer speakers or via phone call. The computer speakers tend to have several seconds of delay. They also have a tendency to drop the audio intermittently. We found that the phone call link provided the best audio possible.
2. Make sure that your speaker is very well aware that you are doing a webinar and is willing to follow their powerpoint presentation, and stay next to the microphone at all times.
3. Keep your program on track. Let your speaker know when there are 10-15 minutes left so that there will be time for questions.
4. Request and remind your speaker to repeat any questions so that those on the webinar can hear the questions.
5. Always e-mail the entire presentation to the registrants so that "if" something doesn't work, the program can still take place.
What other pearls have you learned?