{"id":1249,"date":"2009-10-17T17:34:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T17:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/webinar-commercial\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:32","slug":"webinar-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/webinar-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar = Commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going through the Twitter data collection I see that webinar means commercial &#8230; click to URL and you are greeted with cheesy graphics of earnest looking people in suits on the phone, looking at a computer, smiling around a conference table with words like &#8220;strategic \/ &#8220;newest&#8221; \/ &#8220;monitor progress&#8221; \/ &#8220;agenda&#8221; \/ &#8220;goal alignment&#8221;. In contrast, teachers and other edtechers just say something like &#8221; Catch the live stream of blah, blah&#8221; or &#8220;So and So is presenting over at &#8230;&#8221; Just a wee example of the culture and language embedded in the network. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=8b4200bc-6b83-87d6-a741-171c022878fd\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going through the Twitter data collection I see that webinar means commercial &#8230; click to URL and you are greeted with cheesy graphics of earnest looking people in suits on the phone, looking at a computer, smiling around a conference table with words like &#8220;strategic \/ &#8220;newest&#8221; \/ &#8220;monitor progress&#8221; \/ &#8220;agenda&#8221; \/ &#8220;goal alignment&#8221;&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-eci-890"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}