Webinar
An online meeting is a virtual gathering of people who connect with each other using various communication tools, such as video conferencing software, chat, and audio calls. Online meetings can be conducted for various purposes, including business meetings, educational classes, webinars, and social events.
Several popular platforms for conducting online meetings exist, such as Zoom, Skype, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. These platforms offer features like screen sharing, recording, virtual backgrounds, and chat functions that help participants communicate effectively during the meeting.
To ensure a successful online meeting, participants should have a stable internet connection, a reliable device, and a quiet and well-lit space. Participants should also be familiar with the platform being used and test their equipment and connection before the meeting starts. Proper etiquette, such as muting the microphone when not speaking and dressing appropriately, should also be observed to ensure a productive and professional meeting.
Web conferencing may be used as an umbrella term for various types of online collaborative services including web seminars (“webinars”), webcasts, and peer-level web meetings. It may also be used in a more narrow sense to refer only to the peer-level web meeting context, in an attempt to disambiguate it from the other types of collaborative sessions.
Terminology related to these technologies is inexact, and no generally agreed upon source or standards organization exists to provide an established usage reference.
Web conferencing may be used as an umbrella term for various types of online collaborative services including web seminars (“webinars”), webcasts, and peer-level web meetings. It may also be used in a more narrow sense to refer only to the peer-level web meeting context, in an attempt to disambiguate it from the other types of collaborative sessions.
Terminology related to these technologies is inexact, and no generally agreed upon source or standards organization exists to provide an established usage reference.
In general, web conferencing is made possible by Internet technologies, particularly on TCP/IP connections. Services may allow real-time point-to-point communications as well as multicast communications from one sender to many receivers. It offers data streams of text-based messages, voice and video chat to be shared simultaneously, across geographically dispersed locations. Applications for web conferencing include meetings, training events, lectures, or presentations from a web-connected computer to other web-connected computer.