10 top tips to run a webinar as an expert

1. 10 top tips

3. . Timetable of the event
. Presentations, videos you intend to use
. Presentation of the guests with pictures
. Webinar back-ups (if technical problems arise)
. Pages with links, guests résumés, contacts (That has to be
online several days before the webinar and stay online after)
. Forum page (for participants to be able to react to the webinar
and to ask questions)
. Ask yourself if the event is serving your objectives.

4.  Check the technological sources, headsets,
microphones, camera…
 Check the compatibility of the different softwares
when mixted.

5.  Check the access of the back-up documents, audio
sources, etc.
 Check your notes and the timetable.
 Make a last technical test. (Keep technicians phone
numbers at hand.)

7.  Welcome the participants
 Present the speakers
 Present the schedule of the webinar, including what
will be online after (summary, links, seminar
recording, Q & A forum ...)
 Let a window with the schedule in view during all the
session

8.  If you’re not English native and your webinar is in
English, be kind to participants and double your voice
with slides where the text (or a resumé) is written.
 Illustrate your slides (if you find relevant graphics,
videos or pictures) for participants to have images to
memorize.

9. Vary the tools to avoid a sedative
effect

10.  Use online polls to be able to be more
flexible and follow the needs of the
participants

11.  One of you presents, while the other
checks the equipment and connections
 Reads the messages offline
 Invites participants to talk
 Checks polls
 Has a look at the timetable
 Keeps the speaker informed …

12.  Thank the guests, the participants, the technicians
 Invite participants to join the forum if they still have
questions, interrogations or just want to go on about
the topic after the webinar
 Write the references on slides and tell what can be
found online and where

14.  Unplug and relax !
 Don’t forget though that you have to be active on the
forum and to summarize the seminar.
 Don't forget to check if all the promized links and
sources are online

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16. Dominique Ducamus