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Hope Tillman, [email protected]
Using GoToWebinar to Reach Your Clients
SLA LMD September 2012 Webinar
Today’s session will cover: • Where to get started • Review of your role as organizer • What to practice ahead • What to do:
– Prior to a program, to prepare – Managing the meeting – After a meeting
• Tips for a successful webinar: – Know your platform – Interact before and during the session – Follow up
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Webinar versus Face to Face • Expands your reach but as presenter you
need to look for different cues from your audience – No body language cues – Rely on Audience Questions and Poll
participation – Glance at meter for Audience Attention to
show % attendees that have caught up with current screen refresh
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Compare GoToMeeting & GoToWebinar GoToMeeting GoToWebinar
Attendees Up to 25 attendees Up to 500 attendees (depends on plan)
Nature For group dialog Designed to be much more interactive than GTW
For large groups. Audience management tools. Generally passive audience
Webcam support Up to 6 webcams No webcam support Recording Yes Yes Screen sharing Yes Yes, panelist and organizer
Registration Organizer invites attendees with single meeting ID
Registration confirmation gives each attendee and panelist unique login credentials
Compare GoToWebinar & Adobe Connect
* Use the new login email and password to take advantage of increased capacity
GoToWebinar Adobe Connect No. attendees Pricing plans
(non profit enable up to 500 attendees via TechSoup)
Pricing plans (no non profit plan)
Learning curve
Simple and easy to learn More complex and so more to learn to get started. Can change the layout of what is viewed
Audience view Single display Presenter/Organizer has complete control of what to display to self and to audience via “Pods” – multiple windows
Recording Yes (.wmv files) Yes Polling Chat
Poll - One at a time Chat – Available for presenters/organizer. Audience uses Q&A
Part of the Pod concept. Can be multiple displayed
Role of the Organizer • Check GTW schedule and select a date/time not in
conflict with already scheduled/planned events. • Schedule event and practice time
– Set up registration, audio, branding and theme, email notifications, polls survey, send invitations to attendees
• Practice ahead • Host event
– Start event recording (stop recording before you end meeting) – Manage in-session controls. Make use of reports, polls – End event
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Logging in for the first time
• Start on GoToWebinar’s front page. • Log In with your credentials • Download the software
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Scheduling and Preparing for a Session • After you have
GoToWebinar loaded on your computer you can log in from your system tray or icon on your desktop.
• Note access to Preferences here as well.
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GTW Settings
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Excellent Detailed Help is Available Online
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Schedule a webinar
• Title • Description • Date & Time • Time Zone • Audio • Panelists
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Under Registration: Edit Create your own questions that will be part of the registration
Check/uncheck demographics to collect or not
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Under Change Session Settings: Use Select setting Pull down menu to set up the session
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Fill in (if not entered initially): • Audio • Panelists • Branding and Theme • Email Notifications (customize, i.e. with specific email for questions)
• Polls (use during session) • Survey (automatically, survey attendees as they leave or email later)
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Branding and Theme
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Email Notifications You should personalize/ customize fields in each of the email notifications, except for the “Deny”. There are confirmation • Email reminders • Follow up email for
attendees • Follow up email for those
who did not attend. Be sure the correct email address is listed here.
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Personalize GTW
Emails
Here is where to change email address
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GoToWebinar Invitations
To invite people to register for your webinar • You can forward the invitation email to all prospective
attendees, just like forwarding any other email. Please blind copy everyone on your invitation list out of respect for their privacy.
Manual registration (if you already have info from attendees): • Log in to the GoToWebinar account. • Click the expansion button next to the Webinar date for
which you want to manually register attendees. • Click Registration Web Link, and enter appropriate
information.,
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GTW Polls • You must enter questions ahead to be given
to attendees during the webinar.
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GTW Surveys You must enter questions ahead to be given to webinar attendees as they leave the session.
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GTW Surveys
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Registration Report
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Prior to Start of Session Recommendations for all presenters: • If you plan to share your entire desktop, turn off any
instant-messaging applications, notifications or other programs that may interrupt or be intrusive.
• Turn off all applications that take high bandwidth. • Adjust display settings to 1024 x 768. • Clean up your desktop or use clean screen. • Set up documents you wish to share within one or two
clicks.
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You are now ready to practice or start a session
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Practice Mode What to Practice: • Console Functionality:
o Dashboard/Audio • Attendance List • Start recording • Working with
o Chat o Questions
• Practice Introductions • Share screen/applications • Hand-off to speaker • Hand back from speaker • Stop recording • Ending meeting
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Top Line of Console -
File Save Question Log Save Chat Log Preferences Exit – End Webinar
Options Attendees Can View Attendee List Attendees Can Ask Questions Attendees Can Raise Hands Attendees Can View Session Timer
View (see full slide)
Help GoTo Webinar Help Report Audio Issues About GoToWebinar Hope N. Tillman, [email protected] September 19, 2012 Page 27
View Pull Down Menu
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Recording • Before webinar:
– Obtain presenters’ permission to record. – Be sure you have selected the “Convert
to Windows Media file” option on the Recording Preferences dialog
– Check location selected under Preferences for where recording will save. Default is MyDocuments.
• In session: – Don’t forget to press Start Recording
AFTER you press Start Broadcast. • After session:
– After you Exit/End the Session, do not close down your computer until you see that the recording have finished saving.
Managing a Webinar Session • Arrive 10-15 minutes ahead and make last minute
preparations with Panelists. • Use START rather than PRACTICE. • Change to Presenter. Make sure their slides display
correctly. • Start broadcast a little before the starting time to allow
attendees to come in from Green Room. • Monitor Console. • Stop recording and then End the meeting.
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Starting A Session • Change to Presenters’
Screen when Presenter is Ready and wait for Presenter’s Screen to show
• Then Start Broadcast. • Audience View shows you
what the audience sees • Open dashboard to see
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In Session • Check Dashboard (or Questions)
to see if attendees have questions – to assign to presenter or answer directly
• Also see attendance, % attentive
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Manage Q & A Expectations Organizer Presenter Attendee Sees all questions submitted by attendees
By default, doesn’t see questions submitted by attendees
Uses Questions as means to communicate with Organizer
Responds to all questions or assigns questions to presenter
Views questions only if Organizer assigns them. Can respond to them verbally.
Does not see questions submitted by other Attendees.
Responds to attendee alone or to all attendees
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Audio Tips • Consider globally muting participants at the start of the
meeting to avoid noise issues. • Turn off system prompts/sounds for when attendees join or
leave a meeting. • Share these tips with attendees who use a telephone:
– If you find you are having a sound quality issue, hang up and dial back in. Sometimes problems clear up when a bad connection is terminated.
– Familiarize yourself w/Voice Conferencing conference call features. – Call in to the meeting from a location without background noise. – Avoid using cellular/cordless phones because of static. Phone
handsets or headsets work better than speakerphones to avoid background noise, tunnel effect and sentence clipping.
– Turn off call waiting. Avoid putting phone on hold. September 19, 2012
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After the Session
• Stop recording before you end/exit the webinar. • Check out the chat log and save (if content warrants).
Edit and share results with presenters and attendees . • Process recording and make available. • Review registration, attendance, performance reports to
gather the feedback gained from the survey questions you have asked and harvest attendees to invite to the next webinar.
• Follow up with attendees.
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Exit Survey
• Follow up is an important part of the process.
• Analyze and use survey results found in Attendee and Performance Reports.
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Attendee & Performance Reports
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Recording
• Make recording available – GoToWebinar – Your own server – YouTube – Vimeo
• If you have saved as .wmv, convert to a faster loading
version (i.e. MP3) • Announce to attendees as part of follow-up
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Tips for a successful webinar
• Know your platform – practice and become comfortable with the webinar interface
• Keep track of time • Announce if you are going to be silent. • Break for questions, especially if you build questions for
audience into your presentation. • Use webinar tools to engage attendees • Best if not a one-person show
– This works best as a team effort (organizer, moderator, presenter)
• Make the event a good learning experience for attendees and enjoyable for you and the presenter(s)
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This presentation can be found at:
http://www.hopetillman.com/presentations/ using_gtw_to_reach_your_clients.pdf
You can reach me at: [email protected]
Date Updated: 17 September 2012
Thanks for attending.
The next LMD webinar will be …
http://lmd.sla.org/2012/07/mother-said-webinar/
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Presented by Ulla de Stricker
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