Can you have attendees in GoToWebinar talk or text "chat" to each other during a live 500 attendee event??
If you can't - PLEASE - change it so they can. It is terrible that there is no way to have the attendees interact with each other -
We have a weekly webinar on the same day, and same time EVERY week. Our clients like to be able to come to the event and interact with each other - and with the GoToMeeting there is no way to do that.
Only the organizer can see the "Questions" from attendees.
Let us know if there are plans to FIX this, thanks!
- Hi Mel,
Thanks for the recommendation. It wouldn't be too cumbersome for us because our webinars will be a fairly small number of attendees, but if someone connects on mobile, I can't promote them to panelist. Also, I read that we cannot mute panelists, that they would have to do it themselves...I'm not sure we want to give up that control! I contacted my sales rep to ask if they've made any progress on this. Alternatively, we could use GoToTraining so may look into that for our next webinar if it still has the mute capability. Will take some thinking, which is really quite silly - thanks, Citrix, for making me use my brain! - One more up-vote for attendee chats please!
- One more vote for this capability
- We're looking for some folks who can share more about how they use chat in their webinars. If anyone on this thread is interested, please reply to this post and we will get in touch next week. We appreciate the feedback on this topic!
- I'm very interested. I have a 250-person project team. Because of our size, we use GoToWebinar instead of GoToTraining. But the team is all working together and team interaction is really important to us. We're currently using a HipChat room during meetings because GoToWebinar is unable to fulfill this need. Not everyone figures out how to get into the HipChat room - or doesn't want to open 2 things at once - so we miss having the whole team together. Happy to further discuss our use case if you're working on this!
- Thanks so much! I will send you an email directly to set something up.
- When we have a webinar, we encourage our content leaders to engage the audience. So they may put out a question, and ask for audience responses. Currently, the content leader has to read out the responses coming in. But the attendees are people who may well know each other, they are in the same association. So it's great to see that your colleague in one location has a similar response to you in a different location. It promotes engagement between our members, which is key to offering value as an association.
And we would like them to be able to directly contact each other during the session, to create connections and build their network. The value they get from those relationships they will then attribute to being a member of our association, and thus will be likely to continue membership. - I agree! It feels so stale and they don't feel like they can truly participate in the content. Our group is spaced out over the western U.S. region and rarely meet face to face, so our focus is to increase their feeling of participation in the group.
- Still looking for a few folks who would be willing to chat more about this topic directly with our developers. Let me know if you are interested!
- I am interested - You can call me at 858-695-1985 or email me at jean@traderscoach.com
