Friday, 9 August 2013

Google Hangouts for Online Training

I've been using MeetingBurner.com for conducting Webinars.

I'm going to do some Group training with a few other people so we've been investigating Google Hangouts as a possible alternative.

Google Hangouts allows you to create a "Google Hangout On Air"

It seems that you invite the people that you want in the Hangout. Then start the hangout and go live, and it will start streaming to a particular URL or live in YouTube.
 Some How Tos:
This simple video describes how to embed it on a blog.
  • April Marie Tucker - How to Start and Embed a Google Hangout to your blog
  • start the hangout from your Youtube account (you don't need to invite anyone yet, you can do that just before you start)
  • get the embed code by clicking on the embed link at the top
  • no-one can see it until you click broadcast
  • once you stop the broadcast, that's it, you can't start it again
  • then manage the video on your youtube video management page it will be public by default - so you might want to hurry off and delete it, if it was a test
You might need to create a chat system below the video if you embed it in a web page, some chat systems people mentioned are:
  • chatango.com
    • sign up
    • create a live chat
    • choose box
    • create a group name  
    • configure the size and colour of the box
    • switch off sound etc.
    • copy the embed code to your site
    •  if you to to the url of your cat then you can sign in with your chat name and password to manage the chat window, ban users, delete messages etc.
  • chatzy.com
Other Chat systems found via google:
Or use google + or youtube comments.

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