Pemanfaatan Media Sosial Whatsapp sebagai Sarana Penyelenggaraan Seminar Online

Abstract

Nowadays, everyone uses social media. Indonesia was the one of most social media users. The most favorite of social media in Indonesia is Whatsapp. Now, Whatsapp is used for a club or organisation for seminar convention. This research discusses about how Whatsapp as social media use for online seminar. This research is analyzped with content analysis. Content analysis is used for text analysis in online seminar convention. A seminar was held through Whatsapp group. Online seminar has four segments, like the opening statement, seminar, four sessions of questions and answers, and closing statement. The online seminar is directed by a moderator. A moderator handling every online seminar members and moderating any questions. The member requests a question from the moderator then, the moderator collects questions and sends a list of questions to the chat group.   Then, the speaker gives the closing statement to the participants and the minutes shares the minutes. Suggestions from this research should be holding online seminars must involve members to interact with presenter and other organizers. Direct interaction is also needed so that online seminars become more interactive and more alive.