Virtual Events – A Practical & Convenient Alternative

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Before we get into what the various advantages of Virtual Events are, let us first know what a Virtual Event is. 

So what is a Virtual Event?  According to Wikipedia, “a Virtual Event is a gathering of people sharing a common virtual environment on the web, rather than meeting in a physical location. Virtual events are highly interactive, looking and feeling a lot like their physical counterparts.”

With the prices of petrol and diesel increasing and the traffic growing everyday, all companies are concerned about their increasing budgets and the time people waste on traveling and end up effecting their productivity. And so many companies are resorting to various types of virtual communication like organizing virtual events and making use of webcasting techniques in order to save costs and reduce various expenses in terms of time, travel as well as logistics. 

 

Virtual Events can be beneficial to any organization in the following ways:

• Reach out to larger audiences, both nationally and internationally.
• Reduce event costs, in terms of time, travel and logistics.
• Anyone can watch the event from anywhere, individually or in groups.
• Eases the mental stress caused to people during traveling for meetings and trying to reach on time.
• Helps reduce pollution, thus contributing to a green environment.
• The on-demand services available after the event is over, increases the life-span of the event and helps the attendees re-visit the proceedings if they have missed any part.
• Provides excellent ROI.

Most of the companies today use virtual events parallel to physical events; they amalgamate virtual event and physical events, due to the various advantages they offer. The virtual events are so convenient to organize and are so cost effective that more and more companies are using them.

In a data compiled by ON24, a San Francisco based virtual events company, the environmental benefits of virtual events show that a virtual event with 2,300 participants can reduce carbon emissions by some 3,300 tons; an estimated 17,000 trees would be needed to have a similar effect. Furthermore, a virtual event saves an average of 36,000 sheets of paper per event and can decrease both water consumption and the creation of solid waste.

LiveStreamPro is an organization based in Delhi that excels in facilitating virtual events. We are webcasters of various virtual events for large corporates like Samsung, Chivas Regal and Lanco Group. We are well equipped to webcast virtual events of any scale for all types of organizations – small, medium or large.

I attended my first webinar today!

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I had heard a lot about webinars and always wanted to experience one myself. And finally I got a chance to attend one... it was my weekend class for MBA.

I was sent link to the class on my email along with the date and time as well as the username password to attend it and directions on what needs to be done.

On the given date and time, I clicked on the link sent to me and entered my username password. It was a private event so I waited for the presenter to accept my request. When I finally was allowed to view the webinar, it looked something like the screen shown below:

As you see in the image, I was able to see the entire presentation and hear my professor explain the concepts in detail. On the right side of the screen, I could see all the attendees to the class. The attendees were from across India as well as from abroad. There was also a screen where we could ask questions from the professor.

The professor was very good. He went on with the class slowly and to make the class interactive he kept on asking questions from the class and the participants typed in their answers. Whenever there were questions, the participants typed in the questions and the professor took on all the questions and answered.

The class could have been very boring if it was only the presenter speaking and we would have got frustrated if we had no medium to convey our queries. But the interactive feature did wonders to the way the class went. A blissful technology indeed and it was very well facilitated by the webinar service provider who was in charge. I logged out 2-3 times because of poor net connectivity and had to log in again. My request was instantaneously accepted, so I did not miss much.

This is the first time I attended a class from my house, without any worries of travelling to the study centre in the mid-day Delhi traffic, finding a decent place to sit and feeling awkward to ask questions in a class full of people staring at you. The experience was just magnificent. I was stress-free, saved me so much of time and I was able to attend the class without any disturbances.

There are other forms of webinars too. In one you are able to see the presenter as well as his presentation. And then there are public webinars which everyone can watch without restrictions. It all depends on the features that your service provider offers you, so in order to get a satisfactory experience, it is very important to choose the vendor who is able to provide you with options you require.

Business Applications of Webcasting

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Webcasting and Live Streaming technology has offered a wide range of solutions for the business users. It helps the businesses take their communications to a much superior level. While the conventional ways of communicating with stakeholders have their own place and cannot be ignored, WEBCASTING adds a personal touch to the business communications and makes it more satisfying and effective, because we all know a picture is worth a thousand words.

Webcasting helps you to get undivided attention of your audience, which a written communication from you might not be able to get. Many businesses are today recognizing the benefits of webcasting and deriving new and innovative ways to use this technology to give a niche to their businesses.

Some of the many applications of webcasting and live streaming in Business Communication are listed below:

Webinars Web Meetings Online conferences and seminars Presentation of annual & quarterly Committee meetings Council meetings Town hall meetings Shareholder meetings Product Presentations Product Launches Road shows Press conferences E-learning Refresher courses Lectures Training courses/sessions

Internal communication Addressing staff Announcement from CEO or members of Executive Board New Year’s speeches Company newscasts Crisis communication Communication pertaining to mergers/ takeovers Strategy updates Marketing update Quarterly update Instruction videos Promotional Videos Fashion Shows Other Virtual Events

... and the list is never ending. You can really plan big and reach out globally.

LiveStreamPro helps you organize all types of webcasting business communications. We have the best equipments, software and infrastructure to ensure uninterrupted and smooth proceeds of your presentations, lectures, seminars, meetings, product launches, or any virtual events. Through the use of interactive features that we provide in webcasting, you can conduct a meeting or give a lecture or a presentation or organize a virtual event sitting anywhere in a cost effective manner.

If you have any queries regarding webcasting or live streaming or would like to hire LiveStreamPro, please write to us at sales@livestreampro.com. To know more about webcasting services at LiveStreamPro please visit www.livestreampro.com.

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