- Computerworld
People with something to teach are turning Hangouts into classrooms, for example.
Music teachers like Rob Michael and Serge Chubinsky-Orlov are able to welcome students from all around the world and teach group classes (taking advantage of Hangout's ability to handle 10 people at once).
Lee Allison launched the Google+ Cooking School. Here's a recording of one of his classes.
Photographer Maximilian Majewski does a Hangouts-based show calledPhotohangouts.
Jens Graikowski launched Hangouts-based "Cool Languages Classes," which are open to students from all over the world.
Performers like Daria Musk are turning Hangouts into global stages. Musk told me that Google+ Hangouts "changed my life and career overnight."
As Google+ grows, just about anyone with something to share or teach will be able to find paying students, even if the subject is obscure.
This week, Google announced upcoming features that could make Hangouts even more career-transformational.
One Hangouts feature known as Hangouts On Air lets a select group of users live-stream Hangout sessions via YouTube.
Google said that it would expand the number of people who can use the service, and make it "self-service," meaning any approved user can just initiate a live broadcast.
Better still, Google will record these Hangout sessions and post them on YouTube.
These features will be soon rolled out to all Google+ users.
I was on the TWiT show This Week in Google this week, and Laporte told me that if these features had existed when he founded TWiT, he might have used them for some of his programming. That's just another way of saying that Google's new Hangouts make following in Laporte's footsteps a lot easier than it would have been five years ago.
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