From the course: Running a Professional Webinar
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Monitoring on a second computer
From the course: Running a Professional Webinar
Monitoring on a second computer
- It's really important when giving a webinar that you monitor on a second computer. Now, we've been teaching on a Mac and a PC, but I'll usually take a second computer with me when I'm traveling or giving a webinar. What happens here is, I'll keep it simple. In this case, it's just a Microsoft Surface, makes it easy, or an iOS device. Both have valid and large install bases. So it's important that you consider testing on both. These don't take up that much space. But the second computer serves a few important roles, making sure that you can really judge the webinar from the audience's point of view. First up, never watch the webinar on the same computer that you're presenting from. This'll create all sorts of upload, download issues with interference, and can create huge audio problems. You want to load a stream to see what the audience is viewing. So set up the tablet or the display off to the side, and let it run. I strongly suggest that you mute the volume on that second device…
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