Services to Speak to an Audience

Eric is curious about ways to speak to a lot of people live. What are some of the best ways for him to do that?

Recommendation from the Hive Mind / Brain Trust

• Use Zoom to stream to YouTube as a first test.
• Streaming for Dummies

Video Casters

Multi-stream to YouTube, Twitch, etc.

• https://zoom.us/ - Ability to stream to Facebook, YouTube, Custom Possibly easiest to set up and to stream to multiples service. Has screen sharing and white board.
• https://streamyard.com/ - Ability to stream to Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Periscope, Twitch
• https://obsproject.com/ - Difficult to use, but people use it.
• https://restream.io/studio - Ability to stream everywhere. Monthly subscription to consider. Advanced features but easy to use.

Video

• https://www.youtube.com/ - Should be considered the canonical stream. Could be linked to your existing YouTube channel.
• https://www.twitch.tv/ - Could be simulcast here, too. Why not?
• https://www.pscp.tv/ - Since, you're announcing on Twitter, it makes sense to simulcast here.
• https://facebook.com/ - Access to normies.
• https://jitsi.org/
• https://mixer.com/

Video Tools

• https://streamlabs.com/
• https://obsproject.com/

Not Video

• WordPress - If you're going to create a website, you should use this. Highly configurable and very widely used by devs.
• Medium - Easy to get up and running, but not configurable.

Community

• Reddit
• Discord
• Mighty Networks - costs money but allows you to provide courses, organize topics well, and users can find people near them to build local community.

Pros and Cons to Consider

• Technical overhead
• ability for people to ask questions live
• audience/reach