Webinar equipment
Audio, video and telephony - Asked by mentalhealth on Tuesday, 6 December, 2016 - 14:20
We would like to be able to host webinars and need to know what the best hardware and software solution may be. Mindful that we are charity and always on a budget.
Reply by Isaak Dury from TidyHQ.com on Tuesday, 6 December, 2016 - 16:27
Using Google Hangout as a webinar will probably be the easiest and cheapest solution for you... and you can publish it afterwards to YouTube if you feel like your audience would find that beneficial. Go through the following setup steps both for your main Gmail account and for your test account. You need to … Open a Google+ account. Start a YouTube channel. Link Google+ with YouTube. Download and install the Hangouts plugin for your browser. Tip: In order to run webinars that are longer than fifteen minutes, you need to increase your time limit on YouTube by verifying your account. Congratulations, you’ve now got the technical setup complete! I would strongly suggest you practice (a lot) as it can be a bit confusing and you want to portray confidence. There are other tools like Citrix, GoToWebinar etc but as a starting point Google Hangouts is a great place to start. Cheers, Isaak TidyHQ.comReply by mbpobuscholarship on Wednesday, 7 December, 2016 - 22:59
Have a look at https://www.freeconferencecall.com/ . Free plus able to record webinar and up to 1,000 participants. Worked for our meetings. Regards John BurkeReply by Lyle Thompson from Colourworks Australia on Thursday, 8 December, 2016 - 08:22
HI. Depending on where you are in your software and systems life-cycle, you may want to take a look at Office 365. Skype for Business is an excellent platform for hosting webinars for internal and external parties. It is also fully integrated into AD and Exchange. All the best with your research.

