You are most welcome. It’s a great podcasting plugin you have created and we’re now using it on all of our podcasts.

That’s brilliant to get your feedback on the questions we raised during the podcast episode. Izabela will be pleased about number 3. Great to hear you’ll be hanging out in the comments should anyone have any questions about your plugin!

Thank you for taking the time to check out Simple Podcast Press and I’m really grateful that you dedicated an entire episode for it.

I listened to your entire episode and really enjoyed it. I just subscribed to this episode comments and will be more than happy to answer any questions anyone else might have in the comments.

Here are some answers to your great questions you asked during the show

1. You pronounced my name perfectly during the introduction

2. The email opt-in is designed to be universal. Any autoresponder that provides you with HTML embed code is supported, including GetResponse.

3. Izabela made a great suggestion about changing the buttons per episode. I made a note of that feature. We are soon going to roll out custom buttons (basically you can link to anything you like – webinar registration pages would be a great one if you do webinars). This would be a great opportunity to add episode specific custom buttons.

I hope I covered all the questions and thanks a ton guys for all your kind words about the plugin.

Cheers,
Hani

1. I’ve seen that Google recommend 1 mbps/2 mbps (up/down) for group connectivity. This seems pretty low and perhaps for HD video you may need bandwidth. It’s certainly something to consider before going live: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1216376?hl=en

2. The idea of keeping it all inside the computer is possible and will be very simple. I like the flexibility of adding in different audio sources and looping back computer audio. Perhaps hooking in to an external audio/visual mixing desk could take away the need to use so many 3rd party apps?

3. I really enjoy Google Hangouts On Air especially the fact that you can use it to do private workshops for selected people in your Google+ circles. I guess it would be better to have an integrated leads system so that you could market your webinar outside of the Google+ ecosystem. I’ve heard from many, “but I don’t have or use Google+”.

Thanks for the words and I’ll do my best to slow down too – hopefully Izabela will keep me in check – plenty of good thoughts in your comment.

1) Bandwidth? I’m in a rural location with half a meg up and 7 meg down. Where does this sit in the world of streaming quality using the system you describe above? I have equipment able to stream direct but to do it in HD and interact with others I’m told I need at least 10 meg up and 20-30 meg down.

2) There are of course numerous way to do potentially do this and rather than having the confusing amount of software and Apps you talk about, what about keeping the whole video production and audio side separate and just using the Mac or PC as the interface? Therefore all the ‘input’ side audio, video, clips and screen sharing is all taken care of externally via a ‘switcher’ and then piped through the Mac/PC via a AV Firewire interface? However to pull up the video clips from other participants, can you have a second machine solely (logged into the same account) ‘outputting’ their video, or does it all have to be done on the same Mac/PC interface. Confused by the options.

3) I hear what you say about the Google system being the most cost effective route currently, however it would be good to hear now you’ve used it numerous times, what you ‘can’t’ do with it and where the limitations are? You give a very positive spin on it, however if you consider how others might use it differently to you, what are the limitations.

And finally, pretty please is there any chance you could slow down a bit from Local Radio speed? Sometimes the rate at which you mention technical specs, URL’s and such is so fast it is difficult to look them up on-line as you reel them off and I have to keep rewinding several times to understand how software (a) fits in the with app (b) and is wired up with hardware (c).

Ta. Keep it up and thanks for your contribution to this ever changing world. There is a further question which comes from this all which relates to; does anyone provide a service who does all this for you? That is all the web linking, software prep, page preparation, Google set up, transcribing and so on? I hear you use numerous ‘virtual’ people to edit, post and release your podcast material, so surely it is the next natural step?

Cheer, Bob