webinar
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- sometimes capitalized: Webinar
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webinar (plural webinars)
- 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: Web conferences or Webinars are a great way to learn about products or subjects of interest. —Ann Rockley, Managing Enterprise Content [1]
- 2003: 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. —Francoise Tourniaire, Just Enough CRM [2]
- 2003: 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. —Andrea Learned, quoted in Martha Barletta's Marketing to Women [3]
