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Webinar vs Online - What's the difference?

webinar | online |

As a noun webinar

is .

As an adjective online is

describes a system which is connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.

As an adverb online is

describes actions performed over the internet.

webinar

English

Alternative forms

* sometimes capitalized: Webinar

Noun

(wikipedia webinar) (en noun)
  • An interactive seminar conducted via the World Wide Web. Usually a live presentation, lecture or workshop that happens in real time, as users participate through chatting, video-chatting, file-sharing, or asking questions with a microphone.
  • I just got an email invitation to a webinar on the value of primary sources.
  • * 2002 , Ann Rockley, Managing Enterprise Content [http://print.google.com/print?id=61WSVFLVVn8C&pg=PA274&lpg=PA274&sig=srg1AwSMEcWWtFSXInCxYDFXaMo]:
  • Web conferences or Webinars are a great way to learn about products or subjects of interest.
  • * 2003 , Francoise Tourniaire, Just Enough CRM [http://print.google.com/print?id=hjgcsD02yjUC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&sig=BpRLdepR6kOg5bs90hH9qiV5dVY]:
  • Webinars are often painfully short on exposure to the actual product, devoting half of the typical one-hour length to an “expert” disserting on some lofty topic, another fifteen minutes to a fluffy presentation about the company and its strategic direction, and a scant five minutes to a quick demo.
  • * 2003 , Andrea Learned, quoted in Martha Barletta's Marketing to Women [http://print.google.com/print?id=hQKnE5aIu5IC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&sig=0Xj5El2z1UkcFVD8xg5WN74mMZQ]:
  • It's not that all women aren't interested in learning to download files or take Webinars , it's that their “why bother” factor may well kick in.
  • * 2006 , Selling Power , Volume 26, Issues 1-9, page 44:
  • Register today for our informative webinar and executive book offer.
  • * 2011 , Jon Wuebben, Content is Currency: Developing Powerful Content for Web and Mobile , page 28:
  • One other point: An impressive site design can never rescue poorly written copy, sloppy videos, or boring webinar recordings.
  • * 2013 , Kristin Kipp, Teaching on the Education Frontier , page 82:
  • Although there are many other tools that are available in a webinar tool, these are the ones you'll find yourself using most often.

    Anagrams

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    online

    English

    (wikipedia online)

    Alternative forms

    * on-line

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Describes a system which is connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.
  • # Describes a generator or power plant which is connected to the grid.
  • # Describes a computer which is connected to the Internet or to some other communications service – i.e., not simply with the cable plugged in, but has established a connection to a larger network (e.g., by dialing up).
  • Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
  • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
  • Connected to the Internet.
  • Available on a computer system, even if not networked.
  • Describes a system that is active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant.
  • Antonyms

    * (connected to larger network) offline * (available on a computer system) hardcopy

    Derived terms

    * massive open online course (MOOC)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Describes actions performed over the Internet.
  • He works online .

    See also

    * come online

    Anagrams

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