I am attending a writing webinar today, sponsored by Writer's Digest Magazine. I get an hour and a half of lecture, access to the materials for a year (at which time, I imagine, they'll have a new webinar), and a critique of my bio and novel platform. It might be a foot in the door. Has anyone here attended a webinar? If you did, did you get any value (or lasting value) out of it?
In my line of work I have to sit through these things fairly often. Just like with anything else some are beneficial and some are wasted time you'll never get back. Around the office we view webinars as new fangled power point presentations.
Notices come out for them at work quite a bit. I haven't had any interest and so far have managed to avoid being forced to take one.
Well, the webinar seemed to work out well for me. I won't get any feedback on my author bio or novel platform until January, but I think it was an okay value. I might try it again on another topic or a related topic, but if nothing else it was a worthy experiment.
I realize that they can save traveling costs but it seems to me that half of them are just done for the sake of doing them by people trying to justify their positions.
