Google Hangouts allows users to video chat, share screens and files, and save chat sessions. It integrates with Google+ and YouTube accounts. To use Hangouts, users must have a Google+ account and install a plugin. Hangouts allows video chatting with up to 10 people simultaneously and integrating with other Google services for communication and collaboration.

1. Google Hangouts:
Communication &
Collaboration
The Next Level of
eMeetings
By: Bluebarker Lowtide
(a.k.a. Vasili Giannoutsos)

2. Overview
• What is Google Hangouts?
• The Big Picture
• 3 Steps
• Inside Hangouts Features
• Tips and Tricks
• Q&A

3. What is Google Hangouts?

4. Pros & Cons
• Video chat with • Only 10 people at
people (on a time
cellphones, • Users with slow
tablets or connections with
computers) lag out frequently
• Save and Archive • You must connect
Sessions your Google+ and
• Share screen, your Youtube
documents and account while
other files giving your
simultaneously personal info

5. Bigger Picture

6. 3 Steps

7. Locating Google Hangouts
• Go to Google Homepage
• Go to your + (plus) page, top right
hand side or type in Google
Hangouts in the Search and it will
take you.
• To start a Google Hangout you
must have a Google+ Account,
when you send invites they do not
have to be just gmail accounts

8. Starting Out
• When you first do Google
Hangouts on yours/new computer
you will need to install a plug-in
and restart the Hangout.
• First time “On Air”, make sure the
check box is clicked and make
sure you connect to the right
Youtube Account, have your
address and a phone number
handy.

9. Inside Hangouts Features

10. Tips and Tricks

11. Q&A