Create and host a webinar with AI

First step: Prep

It’s time to brainstorm to bring the vision of your webinar into clearer view. Turn to generative AI for coming up with ideas, organizing your thoughts, and imagining what’s possible. Try prompts like these to prep your webinar:

• I’m putting together a webinar for new teachers at my school. Help me create a webinar that conveys the most important information while building camaraderie. Where should we start?
• Outline a one-hour webinar on [topic]. It should be directed at [audience] with the goal of converting participants into clients. In the outline, suggest webinar tool integrations to increase engagement.
• I’m making a webinar on [topics]. Organize the topics in the most logical, compelling way, and give me ideas for how to discuss and create audience interaction around each topic.

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Learn the ins and outs of how to make a webinar

Modern tools offer webinar hosting, creation, marketing, and presentation features. To get your head around what’s available to you and how to move from idea to delivery, use AI as your webinar creation coach. Try prompts like these to learn how to make a webinar step-by-step:

• What are the best tools to host and create a webinar for [number] people? I want the webinar to be interactive via live polls, vibrant participant chat, and break-out sessions.
• Show me how to create a webinar using [hosting tool] and lay out the process in easy-to-follow steps.
• Show me webinar examples that I can use as models. Explain how the most successful webinar elements were created and what I can learn from the model.

Tap into webinar best practices

If you’re shooting for a memorable, effective webinar that engages your audience—and of course you are!—you’ll want to follow webinar best practices. To polish your presentation and supercharge your prep, turn to AI tools for guidance and coaching with prompts like these:

• Research webinar best practices from the last two years. Pull from professional organizations and educational institutions only. Based on this research, provide the top ten best practices I should apply.
• What techniques should I try when hosting a webinar? How do I connect with my audience, keep them interested, articulate my ideas, and avoid being too dry? Provide webinar best practices and help me try them out.
• Act as a webinar-creation coach. Team me how to wow my audience, guide me on how to get the most out of tools, and give me exercises to put it all into practice.

Fashion your follow-up

Whether you want attendee feedback—which is the best way to learn—or it’s time to pitch your service, webinar follow-up presents several opportunities. Try prompts like these to create a lasting impact, learn from feedback, and take advantage of this chance to connect with participants after your webinar:

• How should I approach a post-webinar follow-up?
• Create a webinar follow-up contact plan. How do I keep participants engaged in the topic and keep the conversation going from here?
• I have three post-webinar goals: gather feedback, promote my service, and get potential customers to sign up for my newsletter. Create all the materials I need for every part of this plan.

With AI, you’re on your way to designing and delivering a powerful webinar. To make your webinar a reality, try Microsoft 365—including PowerPoint and Outlook—for free.