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webinar | conference |

As a noun webinar

is .

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.

    Related terms

    * web conference * web conferencing * web cast

    Anagrams

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    conference

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Nor with such free and friendly conference / As he hath used of old.
  • (politics) A multilateral diplomatic negotiation.
  • (science) A formalized event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.
  • (business) An event organized by a for-profit or non-profit organization to discuss a pressing issue, such as a new product, market trend or government regulation, with a range of speakers.
  • (sports) A group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis.
  • (obsolete) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
  • * Hooker
    • helps and furtherances which the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford
  • (Methodist Church) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
  • A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.

    • Derived terms

    * conference table * news conference * press conference * conference room

    See also

    * discussant, lecturer, parleyer, prelector, speaker. The Writing-Rich High School Classroom: Engaging Students in ...

    Verb

    (conferenc)
  • (education) To assess (a student) by one-on-one conversation, rather than an examination.
  • * 2009 , Jennifer Berne, The Writing-Rich High School Classroom
    • The students who were conferenced on paper 1 will get a written response to paper 2, and those who received a written response to paper 1 will be conferenced on paper 2.