Hangout On Air Chrome Extension

Hangout On Air Chrome Extension

I promised Andrew Hatchett that I would try this out and then give a review for the rest of the community. So here goes....

As with all extensions, it was a snap to install. It places a nifty little yellow camera icon in the menu bar. You simply click on the icon and a hangout opens. It looks the way I would expect it to. (Note: this means it is instant; you cannot plan a hangout here for later)

As Andrew pointed out, you can open the Business Hangout so long as you had one already set up, or you have a permalink set up.

On checking what happened in You Tube, I determined that it comes in titled My Hangout On Air and is Unlisted. This means that you would want to change the title and add a description and change it to Public if you want others to access.

I view this as being much easier than finding the Hangout website and drilling down several layers to find the set up page. I see this as being very useful/helpful to teach to participants in my Beginners Google for Business workshop.

I like it! Thanks to Michael Ricketts for pointing us to it.