the.com/webinar
A meeting that pretends to be optional but tracks your attendance anyway.
means An online seminar where a presenter talks, slides advance, and attendees mostly multitask with their cameras off.
from A blend coined in the late 20th century by jamming 'web' onto the end of 'seminar' — part of a whole litter of portmanteau words (like 'webcast' and 'webinar's cousin 'netcast') born when the internet needed quick names for old things done online. It rode in on the dot-com-era habit of sticking 'web' or 'e-' onto anything to make it sound new.
- etymology
- web plus seminar, minus the dignity
- engagement truth
- most attendees are muted and doing laundry
- peak moment
- the chat says great question nobody asked
- ideal length
- always longer than the content requires