Interact and Engage!: 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars

5Perform on the Virtual Stage: Engaging Webinars

As the Introduction noted, this book uses “webinar” to refer to a live online presentation for an audience ranging from tens to hundreds or even thousands of attendees. Webinars pose unique challenges for facilitators to take the stage and engage their large online audiences. It takes special focus and attention to storytelling, the pitch and tone of voice, and the strengths of the technology platform to avoid delivering boring lectures. Well-designed webinars also include activities that cater to the size of the audience, and this chapter provides some examples.

For webinars with large audiences comprising mostly strangers, dealing with silence is a primary challenge. This is when attempts to ...