Today, we’re rolling out a new Ning Extension: Ustream. Ustream lets you record and broadcast video with just about any camera — including one you may already have built-in to your computer. The Ustream integration with Ning is designed to be easy to use so you can be up and running within minutes and play streaming video directly to visitors and members on your Ning social site. This is an excellent tool for Ning Creators who want to harness the power of video, and it’s now available for all Ning Plus and Pro subscribers.
To get started, simply navigate to the Ning Extensions section of your Dashboard and click “Activate” next to the Ustream listing. If you don’t already have a Ustream account, you’ll need to create one, but the process is very easy. Once it's activated, Ustream will live as a pull-out tab on the side of your Ning social site. When your Ustream channel is live, you’ll see a green indicator dot. When it’s dormant, you’ll see a red indicator dot. Your members can click on the tab at any time to watch live or recorded video from your channel in a pop-up window that is easily dismissible. You can even have live chats during videos in the Ustream Extension window, making this an excellent way to get your members engaged in a unique, live event no matter where everyone is located around the world.
Whether you want to use video to run a workshop, talk through a tutorial, or broadcast a live party, you’ll find the Ustream Ning Extension easy to set up and use. If you’re a music artist, what better way to do a live pre-show warm up to get fans around the world pumped for your upcoming concert? If you teach a class remotely (or want to), this could be just about the best thing that could happen to you. Maybe you just want to run a live Q&A session to get closer with your community members. The possibilities are ripe for experimentation. Best of all, it’s free for Ning Plus and Pro.
So how will you use it? Feel free to share your ideas below.
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A semi-novice question... when I look at pricing on Ustream's page, it's way more expensive than Ning's freebie for higher level subscribers. So, are there limits on either the total video files I'm hosting, or the total hours per month of streaming?
Thanks, MK
Sorry for jumping in so late here, but if someone could give me a simple yes or no it would be greatly appreciated, since the link for the walk through seems to be down. If I enable UStream on my Ning network is there a way that I can either create a "DIY" channel and let users who sign up with us to have the ability to host their own show live and take questions? Or if I cannot create a dedicated channel for this, is there anyway that I can create a way for potential clients to still host their own DIY show and take live questions, and is this available for more than one potential user on our Ning network? Appreciate your time and help
wish it had a way to keep the video u select off the list on that window instead of taking us to ustream
:) i played and broadcast my PC VIDS. after research and understand it..
any how its very loady. mean broadcaster PC should have Great speed bcz with slow speed boradcasting we cant able to reocrd as well as brodcast it. i give a try last day tranmission worked so much slow and hanged after every 5 seconds on reciver end.
It work Clearly with audio but with video i have to upgrade Net speed. from 1 MB to 4MB or above.
Chat serivce is not working properly in signups. "you have already an account" but the id we use is not used earlier. its my members compalins.
Gr8 Service but have to orginize it with proper scduled tranmission.
@ Support
1.Can you tell me from where i can set the auto options so my videos or contents in playlist of producer play one by one. bcz now i have to click on it for play
2. When i broadcast it from my Laptop at reciver end i cant able to hear sound of transmisison and from PC it broadcast sound. is their some settings or have to change soundcard?
3. USTREAM provide how much space mean how much videos can we record any space limit or Hours limit?
Hope i wil get answers.
This sound great but how is it available to Ning Plus subscribers if we do not have the facility to load our own videos please? I am probably sounding a bit "daft" here so sorry if so. But....I am interested in streaming live videos onto my site and was thinking I could not do this without upgrading to the Pro package??
Thanks for any advice...... :-)
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