Last fall in my wisdom, I decided that we would offer more
webinars to our members – three a month, to be precise, which was a serious
undertaking, but I was thrilled with the way presenters stepped forward to
participate. Not only that, I drew on
women from around the world – how cool is that.
Except for one thing.
Without fail, with practically every webinar, something technical went
wrong. Even my more seasoned of webinar leaders, Jan, found herself talking
into thin air – no one could hear her.
Then there was the webinar where the hook up wasn’t working,
but it gets worse. This month, we sent
out the recording link for one popular webinar, having tested it ahead of time
on our computer to make sure it worked, only to find that when you tried to
watch/listen to it on an iPad, it took you to a porn siteJ
Another seasoned webinar presenter had a power cut right in
the middle of the presentation. I could
go on.
Now in the past I would have taken all this as a sign – that
the universe was telling me that this was not a direction I should be pursuing,
but not this time. No, to me what the
universe is telling me is that I need to take more control over the technology
used, and that despite my fear of all things technical, it’s time I learned
more.
So that is my plan over the summer. I’ve purchased a program and when it is
quieter on the work front, plan to tackle and wrestle this technology, so that
come the fall in 2014, we are fired up and ready to go.
Stay tuned. Technology permitting, of course.
