An excellent webinar on WordPress today. Joel and Ben displayed a huge amount of knowledge and insight into getting the best out of your web site.<\/p>\n
I am looking forward to the next one.<\/p>\n
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Recently we ran our first WordPress Webinar<\/a> – it’s a new venture for us and I was really happy that near 30 people joined on our romp through WordPress tips & ideas for businesses. We’ll certainly be doing more events in future.<\/p>\n When we first announced the webinar, I was undecided about the technology we would use to deliver the session, so I simply put a standard form in place to help people register their interest (using the lovely Campaign Monitor<\/a>).<\/p>\n We recently started using Ecamm Live<\/a>, this is powerful live streaming software for the Mac. It allows you to do things like:<\/p>\n Ecamm Live allows you to :<\/p>\n Note: I later discovered that Zoom itself can also be configured to work directly with Facebook Live and Youtube.<\/em><\/p>\n So my options were:<\/p>\n You might wonder why bother with the Facebook\/Youtube route as well as a basic Zoom session. Two reasons:<\/p>\n Even though I liked the Facebook Live video aspect, I decided to forego it on this occasion. Aside from not wanting to make it too complex on our first outing, I didn’t want to\u00a0run the risk of an attendees video or voice going out live when they had not given their express permission. However, now that I know we can set up the webinar so that is not possible, we are free to consider this next time.<\/p>\n [adrotate banner=”4″]<\/p>\n Zoom<\/a> has two basic methods of online session:<\/p>\n Meetings<\/em> are the more regular Zoom event that you have more than likely already been involved in. With Meetings<\/em>, all attendees typically see echother, can turn off and on video etc, share screen etc.<\/p>\n Webinars<\/em> are very similar to Meetings<\/em> but, straight out the box, attendees are very much more restricted – no video, no audio etc. Webinars are an additional charged service (even if you have an existing Zoom Pro account, like we have), so you will need to mindful of that.<\/p>\n Asking around online, I found that people had mixed feelings about Zoom Webinar so, whilst I had a Webinar scheduled\u00a0 & configured in the backend of Zoom, in the end, I decided to go for a Meeting. As it turned out, I was happy with my choice.<\/p>\n At this point, it’s worth chatting about Zoom and security. The short answer is that I don’t think there are any major security concerns with Zoom per se – I don’t mean they are beyond reproach, but they are no different to many of the other apps & companies we use. I came across a very thorough article on Zoom & Security<\/a>.<\/p>\n You may have also heard of ‘Zoom Bombing<\/em>” which, in fairness, can happen on any platform – if you have an online meeting, and a malicious third party gets the meeting link then, well, you could have trouble on your hands. Key to avoiding this problem is NOT to promote you Zoom meeting link online (unless you are prepared for the potential consequences)\u00a0 – promote your Zoom registration link by all means (or whatever method you choose), but not the link itself. In a ‘locked down<\/em>‘ meeting like we were running, there was limited scope for a malicious third party to cause too much grief anyway.<\/p>\n In response to recent security concerns, Zoom now enables its ‘waiting room<\/em>‘ facility by default – which means folks can’t just join. They need to be accepted<\/em> in by the meeting host. This is certainly a level of protection but only a level – by that I mean I don’t really know what you can glean from a person’s name e.g.<\/p>\nTechnology choices<\/h2>\n
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Why consider live streaming Facebook\/YouTube?<\/h2>\n
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Zoom Choices<\/h2>\n
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Zoom & Security<\/h2>\n
Zoom ‘Waiting Rooms’<\/h2>\n