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!
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- This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Text chat for attendees.
I would like to be able to open the chat room function up to all participants, ie allowing attendees to send messages as well. This is to enable them to make their own points and have backchannel discussions without interrupting the flow of the presentation.
Is this possible? - Can I add another vote for this feature?
In today's interactive webinars, the participants view the restriction on chat as a presenter issue which reflects on your GoToWebinar users.
As one blogger put it, "if chat is not allowed, I drop out."
It should be an option available to the organizers. - Luca - wonder if they will listen to us about this? Jean
- Please get this problem fixed!!!
- you got that right!
- How is the "idea for consideration" coming along? Will CITRIX be making this feature available? Frankly - I know a lot of other people in my industry use a different webinar platform from a smaller company than yours called "Omnovia" that has this feature - and they would come over to CITRIX if you provided this feature because your platform is less expensive. Please reply - thanks!
- Any update of the question?
Are you taking into consideration our requests and needs about this limit?
Thanks,
Luca - This is standard for all webinars I have used and seems like a big oversight. Audience participation is key to a good webinar and hidden questions just doesn't really help.
For example a simple ice-breaker might be to get people to introduce themselves in the chat and post questions as we go rather than interrupt the speaker. That other audience members can discuss the question is a necessary feature for community building. - argh, so crazy that you cant enable this for webinars :(
- It is much more beneficial to the attendees and the presenter to have the networking between all.
