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Please let your marketing folks know that there is a silent (ok, not this time) constituency of people like me who cringe at the term "webinar". Some of us eve
by bithive123 15y ago
Please let your marketing folks know that there is a silent (ok, not this time) constituency of people like me who cringe at the term "webinar". Some of us even filter such terms from appearing in our inboxes.
Please call it what it is: a seminar. When people share their slides online they don't call it a "websentation" because it would be so goofy as to be insulting. Why should a seminar be any different?
- vacri 15y agoI hate 'webinar' as well, but it is highly descriptive. A seminar could be a meeting in a different room in a different city; it's more ambiguous.
- biot 15y agoShouldn't it be in your "list of uncategorized email messages" rather than in your "inbox"? :)
- aresant 15y agoInteresting, I never had those connotations myself but see it repeated a few times in this thread When we set out to put together our media plan / SEO we researched all the varieties of keywords / etc and were surprised to see how far out ahead "webinar" is from "online meeting" / "online seminar" / "screen sharing" / etc eg: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=webinar,+online+meeting,+online+seminar,+screen+sharing&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends/?q=webinar,+online+meeting,+onl...