Getting+Started

Getting Started Most likely when you first attend a meeting you will be in the audience. It will be your job to receive information just as you would do in a regular face to face meeting. Or you might be a presenter, which will deliver the information at the meeting. Most likely someone else will be the organizer of the meeting. They will set up the virtual meeting, send out invitations and may even be a technical advisor during it.

So, lets relate the roles to something we all know. Being in an automobile.

If you are an audience member you will be consider an **attendee**. It would be very similar to being a passenger riding in the back seat of a car. As the passenger in the car you can do very little, maybe roll down the window, asked to have the radio adjusted, etc. However, you can see everything outside as the car moves, here the conversation of the people in the car, but your really are not in the driver's seat. Your just along for the ride. Learn more about being an attendee....

If you are the speaker at the meeting you will be considered the **presenter**. You are similar to the driver of the car. You determine where the vechicle will go, how long you'll be on the road, what roads you'll take and decide what the passenger can really do. For example you could lock them out so they can't open the back doors, or even roll down the windows in the car. Learn more about being a presenter....

And finally if you are responsible for setting up the meeting you will be considered the **organizer**. you are similar to the person who maintains the car and gets it ready for and organizes the road trip. You are the one who opens the garage to get the car out, fills it with gas, checks the oil, tires, and fluids, etc. It is you who invites everyone on the road trip and tells them what time to be at the car ready to go. you might even be the one to load up some of the items needed for the trip. Learn more about being an organizer.....