ADVANTAGES OF SEMINAR THROUGH DISCUSSION BOARD

There are some distinct advantages in this form of Seminar, over the conventional Seminars, which will become evident once people start participating regularly. We have recorded some of them below

NO GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITATIONS - Participants can join the discussion from any corner of this globe without traveling any distance.

IT IS TIME INDEPENDENT – Since the seminar will be conducted through a specially designed message board, the participants are not required to be on-line at any specific time or day to interact in this seminar. Once they are registered, they can put their message any day, at any time as long as the seminar is active. Even the busiest persons can join the forum discussion without disturbing their daily schedule.

LARGE PARTICIPATION: No limitations in the number of participants.

THERE IS EASY COMMUNICATION - send one message to the board and it will be seen by everyone visiting this board.

ALLOWS A FOCUSING ON CONTENT AND LESS ON PERSONALITY – Unlike the conventional seminar, the content of what is being discussed becomes more important than how it is being presented. Any participant with ‘stage-fright’ need not worry about addressing a crowd, while conveying his message. It can therefore provoke contributions even from those who might not speak in a face to face seminar.

PARTICIPANTS CAN REFLECT BEFORE REPLYING COMPARED WITH FACE TO FACE DISCUSSION – If you want to reply to any message in the board, you can take your time to prepare it before posting it in the board. One can get sufficient time to plan ones contributions - so gives better quality.

ALLOWS PROFESSIONALS TO PARTICIPATE IN VARIOUS WAYS - Explaining, questioning, reasoning and arguing – active participation is more important to make an interaction livelier. A proper question can sometimes lead to useful discussion.

HAS AN EQUALIZING EFFECT ON PARTICIPANTS – You can ‘speak out’ freely without worrying about who the other participants are. This is a sharing platform and you do not have to be an expert to offer useful contribution to this platform.

MAINTAINS A RECORD OF DISCUSSIONS – One of the major advantages over real-time seminar. One can refer a question, or an opinion or a presentation by other participants at any point of time from the record, before forming his own message. These records will be also available to everyone visiting the seminar room, even after the completion of the seminar.

COST EFFECTIVE – Seminar in this form will be more cost effective over the conventional seminars, since all the overheads like hall rental, expenses for food & beverage, traveling expenses, etc. will not come into the picture.

And they are not all. More advantages will come into light after we conduct a few seminars through 'message board' and this list will grow.