{"id":22420,"date":"2020-06-21T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T06:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=22420"},"modified":"2020-06-21T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T06:39:50","slug":"looking-to-host-a-great-webinar-audience-engagement-is-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/looking-to-host-a-great-webinar-audience-engagement-is-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking To Host A Great Webinar? Audience Engagement Is Key!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlywebinars.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">webinar<\/a> and a great one boils down to two words \u2013\u00a0<strong>AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There are several tools and software available to help you build excitement and involve the audience to participate in a meaningful way. While Zoom and other applications provide built in audience engagement features like polling, chat, and Q&amp;A, Slido and Mentimeter take those standard features to the next level by presenting output in a more engaging way or offering more advanced audience engagement options.<\/p>\n<ol type=\"1\">\n<li><strong>Slido<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Slido offers great Q&amp;A features and a polling platform for webinars. It offers interactive Q&amp;A, live polls, and insights about your audience. You can crowdsource the best questions from your audience and make everyone part of the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Discover what topics resonate with your audience and share the insights with your stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it is compatible with your favorite video conferencing tools like Zoom, Skype, Webex, or GoToMeeting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mentimeter<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mentimeter is Sweden\u2019s fastest growing startup. With Mentimeter you can build interactive presentations with the easy-to-use online editor. You can add questions, polls, quizzes, slides, images, and gifs to your presentation to create fun and engaging presentations.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of the CEO &amp; Founder of Mentimeter Johnny Warstr\u00f6m, \u201cBy doing a Menti you turn a passive audience into active contributors and make sure that every person feels they are listened to. It is the easiest way to turn a virtual presentation from good (or even poor) to great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Your audience uses their smartphones to connect to the presentation where they can answer questions. You can even visualize their responses in real-time to create a fun and interactive experience.<\/p>\n<p>As more companies gravitate towards #WFM culture, business operations will become more dependent on the effectiveness of its communications tools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Webinars are here to stay!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Looking-to-host-a-great-webinar-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Looking-to-host-a-great-webinar-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Looking-to-host-a-great-webinar-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Looking-to-host-a-great-webinar-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Looking-to-host-a-great-webinar.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between a good webinar and a great one boils down to two words \u2013\u00a0AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT. There are several tools and software available to help you build excitement and involve the audience to participate in a meaningful way. While Zoom and other applications provide built in audience engagement features like polling, chat, and Q&amp;A, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22422,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22420\/revisions\/22422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}