Why online conferencing
Forums, discussion boards and other online conferencing methods facilitate sharing of information with others quickly and easily. Where are such programs useful? - To track projects and ideas at work, to encourage participation in a group event or community, school volunteer opportunities and summer recreation programs. Whatever the need and desire to communicate, online conferencing features like posting messages, sharing files or chatting in real-time help enhance and promote an interactive learning environment.

The elearning software tools that are used in online conferencing are many - web-based applications, email interfaces, online chat applications. In this article, we take a look at how online conferencing can help in a corporate conference- where you expect equal participation from your sponsors and delegates.

To read more about collaboration tools like chat and email, read our article about "Collaboration: Tools and Tips".

Online Conferencing Benefits
How can an e-conference benefit anyone? Well, the simplest explanation would be that it's easier to attend. The other benefits include:

• To be able to view a presentation or a video at a time convenient to you, to take notes during presentations and have them printed or emailed, or saved.
• To be able to pause in the middle of a presentation, stop or restart presentations
• To provide feedback in real-time through discussion boards attached to presentations
• To interact with speakers and delegates easily
• To download papers of your choice for your future viewing
• To search for speakers and topics in a conference or event

• Registration
• Interaction
• Report generation
• Browsing content
• Presentation viewing and feedback
• CRM
• Event building
• E-commerce features

Report generation : At the end of the presentations, reports on demographics about the viewers, delegate registration, presentations viewed, form analysis, sponsor activity events, and feedback form results can be viewed.

Browsing content : Delegates can then browse the content - the list of events, topics and presentation listings. They can then purchase individual presentations, or entire events viewable as downloads from the site. They can store their choices within "shopping carts" until purchase.

Presentation viewing : Once purchased these presentations can be viewed in any random order. Skipping between presentations and sections within presentations are also possible. While viewing the presentation, delegates are able to take notes on-screen and then email or print them later. Ongoing discussion forums attached to each presentation help participants voice their opinions or questions at the right moment.

Each presentation comes with its evaluation form that can be filled up and then emailed to the presentation speaker.

At the same time, the Event Build feature helps an administrator or presenter to add or modify content at any time.

Online Business Directory : The organizer of an event can enter details about exhibitors or sponsors associated with a particular event. Delegates can search through the list for participating companies and browse information about each of these companies.

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