Google+ Hangout On Air – Genius!

On Monday of this  week Google announced  the general availability of Google+ Hangout On Air.

A great very personal “webcast” overview of the service by the Google team can be found  here  or you can listen to it below…

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This recorded session gives an overview of the setup, a professional broadcaster gives tips and tricks, and answers many questions from the large audience ! –

The service is excellent… ( Yes you can have better video quality, but it is free!  )

I believe this feature has leapfrogged Microsoft, Skype, vSee and the so many others out there.      All part of the process to get everyone into the Google+ platform.

A couple of things of note mentioned include:

• You can upload your session into YouTube
• Your post is by default public.
• You can mark your session as private – (2 hours limit, but can be longer if you want to mark it as public)
• If you place a session in a Google+ Business Page, your video will be posted from your manager account.    (no other way, as YouTube does not recognize Google Pages accounts.)
• It scales !