Holy Cow! Is This Free Webinars for Everyone All the Time?!?!
Now, I realize I don’t understand Google+ really well yet, and I truly believe it’s shaping up differently from Facebook or any number of other sites it was supposedly created to emulate and overtake. But I read a cool article not long ago at the Content Strategist blog that made me wonder if Google+ was quietly throwing another huge game-changer out there for all of us to gawk at.
Here’s the article: Google+ Hangouts Can Energize Marketing Plans. It’s just a short, sweet comment piece about the Google+ Hangouts feature, which provides access to a small (10-person or less) video conference option within the Google+ framework.
But here’s the line that blew me away:
“Soon, Google+ will be rolling out Hangouts on Air, which will let anyone live broadcast to an unlimited audience, according to Social Media Examiner‘s Phyllis Kare.”
What?! Are you serious??? Is Google just off-handedly offering free access to unlimited audience webinars for everyone all the time?
That’s incredible!
That Phyllis Kare article they referenced provides a lot of great information about the Hangouts feature, and it’s well worth a read if you’re as clueless as I am. But man alive! If that’s truly what Google’s offering with their new Hangouts-on-air feature, I’m once again renewing my annual membership to the Google Fanboy club!
What do you think? Is Google about to Wal-Mart the entire paid webinar industry? Is that a good thing or not? Let me know below!
Related articles
- How Will You Use Open Google+ Hangouts? (blogworld.com)
- Experimenting with Google+ hangouts – live, interactive broadcast conversations (psmithjournalist.com)
- Google+ Hangouts On Air and SMBs (cloudave.com)
- Live Broadcast Your Google+ Hangouts on Air (madrasgeek.com)
- Google+ Hangouts on Air live broadcasting is now out of beta (arstechnica.com)
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Lovely article Justin, thanks for sharing!
Thanks very much Maddie, glad you enjoyed it!
I too think that’s Facebook’s reign on the internet will end soon. And you’re right, Google+ is second in line now. Maybe people should be making accounts there now before it’s too late then huh? Great post!
It certainly could be in the offing. FB has some incredible capabilities, but it feels like they’ve always been a bit slow in responding to users wants. Google+, on the other hand, was built in part based off all the things people wanted FB to do, but couldn’t get. Of course, it will take a while for nearly a BILLION Facebook users to turn their backs on it, and FB can still turn things around, but I feel like G+ is in a better position right now to earn user loyalty.
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Elza, I appreciate you subscribing, but may I ask why you didn’t find this article interesting? I mean, G+ Hangouts-on-Air are pretty cool. Right?