steve kwan user experience designer

Webinars

(January 25th, 2006 - 8:51PM)

Today I hosted my first Webinar. So that probably raises the question in your mind: what is a Webinar?

According to Wikipedia's definition of a Webinar, it's "a seminar which is conducted over the World Wide Web. It is a type of web conferencing." In this context, a Webinar is Steve yakking at a bunch of his clients about searching databases while showing them examples via Web software that shows them my desktop.

The word "Webinar," if you can call it a word, is a portmanteau word. According to Wikpedia's definition of a portmanteau word, it's "a word that fuses two function words...Example: infotainment, from information and entertainment." Examples of other portmanteau words include guesstimate and Bennifer.

I figured there would be four or five people involved in this Webinar. It turns out I was speaking to about fifteen. The feedback we received afterward was excellent, which is great because we're planning to conduct more.