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Zoom Webinar Tips and Setup for Large Meetings

Fei Wu
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Zoom Webinar Tips and Setup for Large Meetings

Recently I conducted a Zoom webinar with thousands of attendees – I wish I had a training guide and checklist like this to walk me through all the technical and non-technical details prior to running the session. Instead, I created this video from my experience after concluding a very successful session.

Make sure to watch this video from beginning to end to get ALL THE TIPS, screen walkthrough via Zoom Webinar to get the most benefits. Share with a colleague, client, friend – and use this as a must-have training material before you run any big (or small) Zoom webinars.

Show Notes:

  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 02:30 Screen-walkthrough – My View vs. Attendee View (the ultimate setup!)
  • 04:00 How to spotlight someone, and remove them from spotlight
  • 04:30 Live Transcript for live webinars
  • 05:00 “More” options to Mute Panelists Upon Entry
  • 06:00 Chat feature for large webinars
  • 06:45 A time keeper for your webinar, or use our Zoom timers
  • 07:30 the important of analog tracking with pen and paper
  • 07:45 How to prepare for questions as a moderator
  • 08:15 Sound check for your environment – and who to inform before your big webinar
  • 08:40 KRISP – the must have tool for any Zoom webinar or meeting to remove background sound
  • 09:30 Clean up your desk and keep things organized
  • 10:00 The important of having a secondary monitoring device
  • 10:30 Feisworld consulting for Zoom meeting and webinars to work with you 1:1
  • 11:00 Extra tips – losing your internet, power, communications with your team

Get the Zoom ready-to-use virtual timers

PRODUCTS MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO:
My iPhone charging case (I have an iPhone XS Max)
Portable battery pack (any model will do)

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Fei Wu

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Fei Wu

Fei Wu is the founder and CEO of Feisworld Media, a Massachusetts-based digital media company helping brands get discovered by people and by AI. An Adobe Global Ambassador and brand partner to ElevenLabs, Synthesia, and 50+ other tech and AI companies, she hosts the Feisworld Podcast (400+ episodes, 500K+ downloads — guests have included Seth Godin, Steve Wozniak, Chris Voss, and Arianna Huffington) and co-created the documentary Feisworld: Live Your Art on Amazon Prime. Fei writes for CNET, Lifehacker, and PCMag, and her work has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and WIRED. She has been publishing on the internet since 2014 — long before AI discoverability had a name.

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