Google+ Hangouts are one of the reasons I listed that you should stop ignoring Google+ and it’s, hands down, one of my favorite features. One of the biggest things I hear about Google+ Hangouts is “Yeah, it’s really cool, but how will I use it?”. I generally respond with “Oooh! Let me show you the ways!” and an evil laugh. Oh ok… the last part isn’t true. Just let me pretend.
What are the 3 ways you can use Google+ Hangouts? Let me tell you…
1. Team Meetings
- Seriously! Google+ Hangouts are free to use, you control the privacy settings, AND you can have up to 10 people involved. Now obviously if you have a team larger than that this won’t work, but if you don’t, why are you not using this? I challenge you to have your next team meeting with video instead of just on the phone. Everyone is focused, everyone is sharing, and it’s the next best thing to being able to gather in person.
2. Webshow
- This is a really cool way to be able to do an interview style web show and broadcast it live to your network. In addition to being able to broadcast it you can immediately get it up on YouTube. Seriously! And with some of the new features like rewinding that Google Hangouts On Air has, it makes this even cooler! This is a great way to share your amazing content and self with your audience. A fabulous example of someone who uses this feature and uses it well is Sylvia Nasser from TheFitFem.com. She has been doing really cool live workout classes which you can see on her YouTube channel.
3. Mastermind
- Who says your favorite mastermind buddies have to be local? No one, that’s who! Why not up your mastermind game and have a small video chat, again this is totally free and you control the privacy settings. You can keep your goals in a shared Google Doc that you can actually review and everyone can see during the Hangout. Motivate, stay connected, and stay on track during your next VIRTUAL mastermind session!
This week’s challenge for you is simple, hit the comments and tell me one way you are going to try to use Google+ Hangouts. It can be one of the above ways or you can share a totally new creative way to use it! Also if you’re not signed up for Open Mic News, do so NOW, next week I’m doing a super cool secret things ONLY for email subscribers so you don’t want to miss it!
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. Bad news is that Twitter is changing the way they allow 3rd parties to access things, this means sites like TweetChat and TweetGrid will no longer be able to function. With that said, I may have found us an alternative, 
OneQube may be overwhelming for some, but for those of us using Twitter to power our business I think it could be a really awesome tool. In addition to being able to use it to focus on one hashtag you can use it to see what users and hashtags are active in your stream. This allows you to really target your tweets to hashtags that are being used by your connections.
