Basic Rules when attending a live webinar

Hi Maria,

I am not too sure if I do totally agree with you on this. I agree that during a live "Session" people should discuss the subject being presented.

On the other hand, in the chat booth (Outside of the live sessions), people can network and share external links to connect with each other as the purpose of Virtual Conferences (Besides the subject) is also networking.

This is my personal opinion.

@Rami, thank you for your answer. I know that we usually not agree in a lot of things, this is why enjoy this site.

I agree with networking, sharing LinkedIn or projectmanagement profiles, I was thinking when I write it more in links to facebook, personal emails or phones, or links to amazon.

Personally, I've enjoyed more where all people is discussing with the presenter the topic, and after Q&A sharing the projectmanagement.com profile than those that I only can read hi, hi, hi, here my link, here my link, here my link....

Some like

- Don't share external links.
- Try to only chat about the topic that we are discussing in the session.
- Use neutral expressions in order that all chat members can understand.

Did you observe something else that we can list and improve?

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

Maria,

I have observed moderator requesting participants not to share external links or bully presenter in some cases.

I feel lack of professional ethics here.