Hands down, the best event management with built in CRM is Eventbrite.com … Fortunately, there is a WordPress Plugin for Eventbrite. Also super slick is Eventbrite’s webinar tutorial for setting up an event as a webinar.

• Here a listing of all the Eventbrite WordPress plugins.

WebReserv Embedded Booking Calendar seems like a slick, it feels like it is a paid service and I would bet it is NOT free but looks well supported as a WordPress Booking plugin and maybe a good solution for paid webinar providers that integrate with WP.

As the commercial hop industry ramps up in the Midwest, more and more interested parties have been coming to me with questions about growing hops. Recently I have decided to organize a series of teleclasses to give interested parties a chance to ask their questions of me while making it worth my time and being able to provide answers remotely.

There are actually a few nice free options for producing a webinar, teleclass or teleseminar, but a lot of choices from each. I often thought that skype might be a really good option for running a scxheduled seminar – attendees just call in at a certain schedule. The Contact Call Plugin – Voice Plugin for Websites Wordpress plugin provides a free option for users to call you using call forwarding to skype.

Here are a few services and links I am considering while looking into how to provide and market teleclass seminars.

http://absolutewrite.com/novels/teleclass.htm

From this article: http://www.homebusinesswiz.com/2006/11/how-to-record-teleclasses-and-conference-calls.html

One option which seems to be a winner is  Banckle Online Meeting This is a free webinar service just like GoToMeeting.com but FREE! and integrated with WordPress. Really? Yes! Here is the info on how to integrate Bankle with a WordPress website.

A conference or bridge line service at FreeConference.com

Being able to integrate a webinar with the functionality of WordPress’s posts would be slick. Here is a WordPress plugin which provides webinar registration.

This video may work

More info here http://www.wendycholbi.com/teleclass-nuts-bolts-part-2-getting-the-word-out/ like…

If you’re going to make the call-in information public anyway, I’d suggest going one step further and broadcasting your call as a live Internet radio show. You can do this for free at sites including BlogTalkRadio.com and TalkShoe.com (I personally prefer TalkShoe because there are no restrictions on when you can broadcast, you can have more live callers, and you can also schedule “private” broadcasts). People can listen on their computers or call in, you can easily get a recording (which will live on in your public archives, too), and you also get a bit more exposure by using the Internet radio site as a platform.

Other related posts by this author: http://www.wendycholbi.com/teleclass-nuts-bolts-part-1-conference-lines/ and Teleclass Nuts & Bolts, Part 3: Recordings (and backup recordings!) at http://www.wendycholbi.com/teleclass-nuts-bolts-part-3-recordings-and-backup-recordings/

After reading through a bunch of these Webinar, teleclass and teleseminar options, it looks like webinars are going to be the most effective for giving attendees the opportunity to truely interact and ask questions about growing hops and establishing a hopyard trellis.