Creating a webinar

[KarlBantleman]

Hi Mozzers,

Wanted to pick your brains on something...we are going to give all our clients an update on the industry and want to invite them all to a webinar. Although I've done a few before, I've never set one up and wondered if anyone had any advice on what platform to use etc?

Any recommendations would be brilliant!

Thanks in advance,

Karl

[KarlBantleman]

Thanks Phil, I've used join.me in the past when trying to show clients reports etc so I'll give that a go.

[PhilNottingham]

The first thing to say Karl is that, sadly, every bit of software in this space currently sucks.

I've looked into this extensively, for similar reasons as you and unfortunately am yet to find a solution which doesn't irritate me in one major way.

That said, of the ones we've trialed at Distilled so far - our favourite (and my recommendation for you) is join.me https://join.me/

It's a bit fiddly as to have audio as well as video, you need participants to download the desktop app - but it's pretty lightweight, fast and less glitchy than gotomeeting.

Cheers,

Phil.

[PhilNottingham]

Except that it sucks for this use case because you can't do a restricted hangout-on-air, where it's not open to the public - so end up just doing a hangout with loads of people and then it gets very messy.

[KevinBudzynski]

Second that! With the new youtube channel feature can be viewed on mobile devices much easier (and the recording on Google +).

[Bio-RadAbs]

Here's something I wanted to do. Use Google Hangouts for a webinar.

No only is it free, but it can boost your Google+ presence and brand awareness.

[SEMServices]

I would like to give a very simple straightforward answer.

Creation of Webinar - http://www.gotomeeting.in/fec/webinar

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