On Thursday, March 9, 2017 CFICE presented its first webinar in its new webinar series. Titled, Building a better webinar: A view through experience and research into best practices, the webinar presenters, Jeannie An and Jill Bedford, walked attendees through key tips and pointers for creating the best possible webinar to reach your target audience. Designed for a beginner audience, the webinar touched on the following agenda items:

  • Benefits of Webinars
  • Best Practices
  • Challenges
  • Tools We Used (experience delivering webinars)
  • Conclusions

If you missed out on the day-of presentation, have no fear. We’ve made it accessible below. You can also check out our new report and plain language podcast on Webinar Best Practices!

You can access a PDF copy of the webinar slides here.

Presenters:

Portrait of Jeannie An, the Research Services Librarian, Ron Joyce Centre, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University.

Jeannie An is the Research Services Librarian, Ron Joyce Centre, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. She was also the Chair of the Staff Learning & Development Committee (SLDC) for the library where she gained her knowledge of webinars by viewing hundreds of webinars and also investigating what makes a great webinar through current research on webinar best practices.

Portrait of Jill Bedford, a Library Assistant at the H. G. Thode Library of Science and Engineering, McMaster University.

Jill Bedford is a Library Assistant at the H. G. Thode Library of Science and Engineering, McMaster University. Jill also served on the Staff Learning & Development Committee for the library for 5 years and has been involved with the making of and presenting about webinars since 2014.