There are a multitude of service providers offering to host your webinars and live online video presentations. You need to take a careful look at the many options and choose a service provider that fits your needs.
Citrix is an excellent service provider that offers three distinct types of webinars, GoToWebinar, GoToMeeting and GoToTraining. The type of webinar you choose depends on the type and needs of your presentation. Let's take a look at the features of each type in order to give you the information you need to decide which one will work best for your purposes.
GoToMeeting is aimed at small groups of 15 people or less. The main feature of this webinar is that none of the participants is muted, allowing everyone to participate fully. This is a big plus when holding meetings like those of business partners, Boards of Directors or school faculty. GoToMeeting, as its name suggests, provides a virtual meeting room where a small group can interact fully. Choose this option if you need a meeting of 15 people or less with each person participating fully.
GoToTraining allows up to 200 people to join in a training session. Some of the features of this option are the ability to build tests and exams into the webinar and also to share files during the webinar. If you have a blog, website or a membership site you may already have these features but you might find that they are useful to have during your webinar as well. This is the choice for you if you are training groups of up to 200 people and wish to test them or share files with them.
GoToWebinar is the most flexible of the three options available from Citrix. One of the benefits of this webinar is that it allows you a wide range of participants- up to 100 people, up to 500 people, and finally, up to 1,000 people. An unlimited number of people can register for the webinar but the maximum number who can participate is 1,000.
This type of webinar allows you to read questions, poll your audience and then unmute participants so that they can respond. This allows you to get valuable feedback from your audience on the contents of your webinar.
If you are using GoToWebinar you can also access GoToMeeting for use as a tool to have others help you in preparing your webinar.
Best of all, GoToMeeting will allow you to try out its program for one month, free of charge.
Let's summarize the features and benefits of the three webinar products offered by Citrix.
GoToMeeting is a full participation application for small groups of 15 people or less. It is of best use as a virtual Boardroom or Faculty room and for other small groups.
GoToTraining provides a training webinar for up to 200 people with questions and feedback available from participants.
GoToWebinar is the most fully featured and flexible of the three options offering everything that you need to successfully plan and present your webinar to up to 1,000 people. It is also available as a free trial for a period of one month.
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