Enhanced Campaign Webinar Series

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On Thursday, we continue our enhanced campaigns webinar series with EC 202. In this webinar, attendees will learn more about how offer extensions, sitelinks, and call extensions have been improved with enhanced campaigns to work in a multi-device world. Sign up: http://goo.gl/6k1PI

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Google Hangouts For Teacher Development

"I can envision teachers using Google Hangouts every time they want to try out a new strategy and asking a valued peer to watch and provide feedback on it. I see it as a tool that will help teacher communities make decisions. .... For administrators, using Google Hangouts in this way would be a valuable training tool, a way to showcase your superstar teachers and begin to clone them and make more superstars."

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A Tool for Collaboration...

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Using Google Hangouts for Teacher Development
"How is your family? Whoa! What's that on your head? Is that a wig?" "Give her a mustache!" "Great pirate!" "What did you eat for your Thanksgiving feast? Nice hat!" Between the guffaws and be...

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Questions On Hangout On Air Answered

If there are any questions about hangouts on Air, answers can be found here. The recording will be available after the event for those who cannot attend the live program.

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Drop in from 2-3pm PST to ask your question about Google+ Hangouts!

We'll be hosting Office Hours On Air!

In order to join, please look for the HOA link to be posted in the comments of this Event and on the HOA stream post on the +Google+ Help page. You can watch from the Google+ Help page or this Event.

If you're unable to get into the hangout, submit a question in the comments on this Event or on the HOA stream post on Thursday.

To allow as many people as possible to enter the HOA and ask their hangouts question, please be courteous and exit the hangout once you've received an answer.

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Digital Comic Creation Process

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Join +Little Fish Studio as we take a closer look at the process that five different digital comic creators go through to create their web comics. This hangout will feature sections of time where we will look at some radically different approaches to digital comic creation.

Hosted by +Patrick Yurick co-creator of http://american.booom.us and +Little Fish Studio 

Guest Panelists include:

+Mark Luetke of http://2816monument.com/
+Crystal Rollins of http://aspect.waywardstudios.net/
+Scott King  of http://www.holiday-wars.com/
+Adam Black of http://locus.departure-productions.com/

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Drive Audience to Your Webinar in Two Quick Steps

You’re a recognized professional in your field. You’ve created a presentation on cutting-edge content, designed your slides and rehearsed your lines. All that’s missing is the most important part: engaged viewers.

There are several ways to bring audience to an online presentation, but they’re far from equal. Your time is at a premium, so you want to invest it where it can bring the greatest return, without wasting a half hour on a perfectly-crafted Facebook post on which only your dogsitter clicks “Like.” Here are the two most important things you can do to draw people in.

1) Email your professional contacts

The single most effective way to recruit viewers for your webinar is to send an email to someone who is interested in the content and with whom you have a relationship.  This is something that you’ll want to do once per week for two weeks leading up to the event.

That said, you don’t want to send an email that starts “Dear Friend”; it should be personalized and sincere. At the same time, you don’t want to spend ten minutes per email, which can add up if you’re sending 200 of them – you do the math.

The solution? Mail merge, which allows you to insert personalization details even into Gmail.

2) Reach out over LinkedIn

The next best way is to leverage LinkedIn, a social network that is designed expressly for professional interactions.  This is something that you’ll want to do once or twice a week for two weeks leading up to your webinar.

First, post an update from your personal profile and privately ask a couple of close friends to “Like” it. Since LinkedIn feeds aren’t as clogged as those on Facebook, this can go a long way to giving them a high profile on contacts’ homepages.

Next, post in any related professional groups you’ve joined.  Similarly, privately ask friends (the same ones) to “Like” these updates to boost their profile.

Finally, if you’re the manager or owner of any group, send a “Group Announcement” with a link to your event. Remember that you can only do this once per week!

You’ll also want to remind them the day before before the webinar and 30 to 60 minutes before you go live. As with all events, some people don’t show up; make sure to email them with a link to the recorded version as soon as the event has concluded.

Happy presenting!

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Ian Lyons works at BrightTALK, a video and webinar platform for professionals and their communities. Every day thousands of thought leaders are actively sharing their insights, their ideas and their most up-to-date knowledge with professionals all over the globe through the webinar and video technologies that BrightTALK has created.

Google Doodlers And Discovery Education Hangout

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Join members of our doodle team, author and illustrator of the Amulet series (and Doodle 4 Google judge) Kazu Kibuishi as well as Discovery Education's Steve Dembo and members of the Discovery Educator Network for a Hangout on Air discussing the importance of arts in education and the Doodle 4 Google student art and scholarship competition.

Questions about art in the classroom, teaching art, etc.? Leave them in the comments, and we may discuss them in our Hangout. 

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International Space Station Nasa First Hangout

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NASA astronauts Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn, along with the Canadian Space Agency’s +Chris Hadfield, will discuss questions about their life aboard the ISS.

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Who's tuning in? (ME!)

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NASA to host first Google+ Hangout from the International Space Station on Feb. 22
Proving just how versatile Google+'s Hangouts group video chat feature can be, NASA announced yesterday that it will offer its first Hangout with the crew of the International Space Station later t......

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Bandwidth Slider For Hangouts

After starting a hangout if you feel your connectivity is not good enough, you can slide and choose a lower bandwidth connection. Great feature to keep the hangouts going and avoid the irritation of getting disconnected.

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More Hangouts love for different bandwidth environments

Today we're excited to launch two new features that improve the Hangouts experience in areas with low and/or unreliable connectivity:

1) Bandwidth slider. At the top right of every hangout is a new slider that lets you adjust your bandwidth preferences in real-time. This makes it easier to keep hangouts going, even in areas with poor connectivity.

2) Audio-only mode. Choose this mode to send and receive audio only, and thus, significantly reduce your bandwidth requirements. Other participants will only see your profile picture, but they'll hear you loud and clear.

Both of these features are coming your way today but they're rolling out separately so you may see one before you see the other. Very soon both features will be available to everyone, so give 'em a try and let us know what you think! Thanks for your patience.

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Deepak Chopra Google Hangout

Deepak Chopra, author of 'Spriritual Solutions', has a hangout with Daria Musk and Beth Nielson Chapman.

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Watch my first Google+ Hangout. Enjoyed talking to +Daria Musk , Beth Nielson Chapman, and others. Thanks Paul Raushenbush for moderating. Looking forward to doing more hangouts. #deepakshangout

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