Basic Rules when attending a live webinar

There is an underlying assumption of professionalism here. I have seen some moderation, formal and participant driven, but largely an impossible task to squash completely. Also, when formal restrictions are applied, the ambiguity of the rules will be challenged.

Again, it is the responsibility of the attendees to act in a professional manner - that simple. This is not just here, but in many other areas. I had a consulting gig where there were meetings to remind employees of meeting etiquette.

I think live webinars need a chat room where people give feedback. It is a nice place to share information complementing the presentation. Links to book refer in the conference are fine for me.

I think a level a professionalism is required.

In case like the Talent conference there is external chat room that let you share information not relevant to the conference like my link. and hi from ... when joining late in the conference.

in other webinar there is just too much going on the chat box and you lose interesting comments.

On the other hand I have seen a live webinar with no chat box, in that case it doesn't need to be live!

Maybe a reminder of webinar etiquette can be added to the information concerning PDU's

My wishes for participants in a live Webinar where they are muted:
1) Enter a greeting stating where you are from - it's always nice to know who is in the audience
2) Follow the guidelines given by the meeting facilitator regarding how to raise questions (usually start with QUESTION in caps)
3) It is interesting to see the questions and comments (agreement, similar situations, etc) entered during the presentation. (If on topic, these keep me more engaged)
4) Don't include irrelevant comments, replies or links to irrelevant sites.
5) Thank the presenter and provide feedback during the closing.

I've had good success with including meeting guidelines - for either live or virtual meetings - as part of the opening title slide. I included the words "Help make this an effective meeting for all".

We are assuming the professionalism and an innate quality to know how to attend or participate in the chats, but I've remembered my first one I saw all the people said "Hi from XX", "Good morning from ZZ" and I wrote it too.

It means as a new practitioner or new member of this platform and webinars, we used to observe and perform similar to others, that maybe are good referents or not.

@Anupam, thank you for sharing your thoughts. I think that we were at same webinar where moderator requested not bullying the presenter.

My wishes for participants in a live Webinar where they are muted:
1) Enter a greeting stating where you are from - it's always nice to know who is in the audience
2) Follow the guidelines given by the meeting facilitator regarding how to raise questions (usually start with QUESTION in caps)
3) It is interesting to see the questions and comments (agreement, similar situations, etc) entered during the presentation. (If on topic, these keep me more engaged)
4) Don't include irrelevant comments, replies or links to irrelevant sites.
5) Thank the presenter and provide feedback during the closing.

I've had good success with including meeting guidelines - for either live or virtual meetings - as part of the opening title slide. I included the words "Help make this an effective meeting for all".