Comments on: More Thoughts About the Twebinar http://www.intersectionofonlineandoffline.com/more-thoughts-about-the-twebinar/ thoughts on communications and social media Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:25:52 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jen Zingsheim http://www.intersectionofonlineandoffline.com/more-thoughts-about-the-twebinar/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Jen Zingsheim Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:53:42 +0000 http://www.intersectionofonlineandoffline.com/?p=33#comment-26 Thanks for doing the write-up for Media Bullseye, Mark. I agree that time does lend perspective, and I'm left wondering what was really new, other than introducing Twitter into a Webinar format. It was great as a mechanism to introduce Twitter to people, so there's that. But I thought jumping back and forth between Twitter, Summize (because Twitter's reply functionality was broken, more on that in a second), and the webinar was distracting. Some of those tweeting felt the same way, and tweeted that they were going to stop tweeting and just watch the webinar...not so "game changing" there. ;-) Your point about a logistical nightmare needs to be seriously considered. To me, that means even moderate adoption of this format is unlikely--most companies and groups aren't going to want to tackle pulling the technologies together. And, your point about Twitter's reliability *really* needs to be taken to heart. It's been down more than up since the Twebinar...frustrating to those who have been on it, and "get it"--can you imagine what someone who has just been introduced to Twitter must be thinking? Communications channels have to be reliable to be truly incorporated into a PR practitioner's toolbox. Until Twitter is rock-solid, I can't see this as any more than an interesting experiment, but I do applaud all for trying something new. Jen Thanks for doing the write-up for Media Bullseye, Mark. I agree that time does lend perspective, and I’m left wondering what was really new, other than introducing Twitter into a Webinar format. It was great as a mechanism to introduce Twitter to people, so there’s that. But I thought jumping back and forth between Twitter, Summize (because Twitter’s reply functionality was broken, more on that in a second), and the webinar was distracting. Some of those tweeting felt the same way, and tweeted that they were going to stop tweeting and just watch the webinar…not so “game changing” there. ;-)
Your point about a logistical nightmare needs to be seriously considered. To me, that means even moderate adoption of this format is unlikely–most companies and groups aren’t going to want to tackle pulling the technologies together. And, your point about Twitter’s reliability *really* needs to be taken to heart. It’s been down more than up since the Twebinar…frustrating to those who have been on it, and “get it”–can you imagine what someone who has just been introduced to Twitter must be thinking?

Communications channels have to be reliable to be truly incorporated into a PR practitioner’s toolbox. Until Twitter is rock-solid, I can’t see this as any more than an interesting experiment, but I do applaud all for trying something new.

Jen

]]> By: Chris Brogan... http://www.intersectionofonlineandoffline.com/more-thoughts-about-the-twebinar/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Chris Brogan... Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:02:53 +0000 http://www.intersectionofonlineandoffline.com/?p=33#comment-24 Glad it worked for you. Episodes 2 and 3 will bring it forward even more, I hope. : ) Glad it worked for you. Episodes 2 and 3 will bring it forward even more, I hope. : )

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