As someone who is planning on producing your own webinar, you are no doubt familiar with what software is needed in order to attend a training session or webinar. We will go over the requirements here to help you recall all of the information and perhaps add some new points. Then you will be able to explain the process to potential viewers of your webinar who might have questions on the subject. This will help to ensure that they attend your presentations.
The good news is that most modern computers will already have installed almost all of the software that they need, with the exception of the webinar services own software. GoToWebinar, like many webinar services, will prompt you to run any applications that you need to attend the webinar successfully. When the person wishing to attend the webinar opens the webinar join page in their browser, they will see a Flash or Java applet. While the webinar is loading up the webinar client will install in the background.
The technologies used by most webinar services, including GoToWebinar, are Flash and Java based. This means that they will not install on most mobile devices but they will install on both desktop and notebook computers. Mac's and PC's are both able to run these programs.
You need to keep in mind that at the moment GoToWebinar is not completely Mac compatible. There can be issues with both the screen sharing features and the sound quality in the USB headphones. These issues will hopefully be addressed soon. For the moment it is highly recommended that you present your webinar using a PC. A possible solution for Mac users would be to run Parallels.
For attending a training session or webinar where you do not want to transmit audio or visuals a Mac will work just fine.
The people who are going to attend your webinar will be happy to find out that they are not going to have to do a complex download of software in order to watch and participate in your presentation. Let them know that all they need to do is go to the webinar join page using their browser and follow any prompts to install the webinar client software. It's that easy! Because of the Flash and Java technology used in webinar services like GoToWebinar, the applications can only be run on desktop and laptop computers, not on mobile phones and other mobile devices.
GoToWebinar is not fully Mac compatible for presenting webinars but they work fine for attending one.
By understanding and passing on this information to people who wish to register for your webinar you should help ensure that they get the full benefit of your presentation
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