Our first Webinar was a hit

The December 3 Webinar of Katie McCamant’s “Investing in Sustainability: Financing Cohousing” was very well received by its attendees. In answering evaluation questions at the end of the webinar, 92% of the respondents rated the webinar content as Excellent or Good. And 88% said that they would Absolutely or Very Likely recommend a webinar to other people.

In fact, the actual audience was much larger than the 37 individuals who enrolled. Half the attendees were two or more people watching because groups had been encouraged to view the presentation together. One larger group had members of two forming groups in Seattle and another large gathering included people from different communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The feedback we received on our first production was very helpful as we look ahead. Naturally, there were minor glitches with our first endeavor into a new technology. We have begun exploring alternative methods to lower our production costs so that in the future we hope to reduce the price of both the webinars and the recordings.

The next webinar is slated for February with Laura Fitch of Kraus-Fitch Architects exploring the topic “Getting the Work Done” in communities. How do you make all that needs to be done as cooperative and successful as possible? It will look at a successful system in use in a cohousing community.

A CD of the presentation is being prepared and we'll have more information about it soon.