Originally published at: Stories, Voices, and a Lot of Emails: My Approach to Webinar Planning – CCCOER
By Heather Blicher, CCCOER Director, Open Education Global When it comes to planning webinars, my philosophy is: it’s not about who you know, but who you want to know. That’s why I usually have several email conversations going at once with potential speakers, panelists, plus informal brainstorm sessions with colleagues from other nonprofits or partner organizations on the calendar. Not every idea fits neatly into a semester’s line-up and more often than not, organizing and refining webinars takes at least a couple of months to get it to the right place. And that’s perfectly okay. New Voices Matter New voices…
See why I love working with my colleague, Heather? She has brought such good approaches to the CCCOER Webinars (see the Fall 2025 lineup), with not only some new formats and themes (like ones with coffee), but also the network she taps into.
That’s why I am looking forward to the one coming up on September 17, when we combining forces with CCCOER with the OER Under the Hood series we started with Pressbooks this year.
My webinar style is a bit looser and free form conversational, but we will bring it all together for OER Under the Hood: Vocational Publishing with Pressbooks when we explore the Introduction to Welding open textbook produced by the Washington Open ProfTech project.