Having a Facebook group is one of the greatest ways to get to know your audience
and grow your audience. Now, inside of the Facebook group,
you really want good engagement,
and one of the very best ways to get engagement and to keep your audience coming
back for more is to use live video.
Now you can just use your phone or even a desktop computer to go live inside of
a Facebook group, BUT,
you can also take it to the next level and do things like share your screen,
play videos, display comments when you're answering questions;
if you use an application like StreamYard. So in this demonstration,
I'm going to show you how to connect StreamYard to your Facebook group and go
live. Now,
the very first thing that we have to do when we want to go live inside a
Facebook group using StreamYard is we have to connect that group to our
StreamYard account.
So we're just gonna simply go over to destinations from our dashboard,
add a destination, select Facebook group, connect Facebook.
And as long as you're an admin, your Facebook group will show up in the list.
So we're going to select the group that we want to add.
And then it's actually StreamYard that's going to make this next step very easy.
So we have to actually connect to the StreamYard app to our Facebook group.
But if you just go right here,
it's going to pull up exactly where you need to go.
And all you have to do is type in StreamYard in the search.
And it's going to show up right here.
You're going to select it and then we're going to add it.
And now it's added to our apps inside of our group settings.
Now you could do this manually as well, if you wanted to,
by going into your group settings, but this is by far the easiest way. Now,
just in case you find yourself wanting to add StreamYard inside Facebook,
without doing it through Streamyard all you would need to do is go over to your
settings app, scroll all the way down to apps, click on this edit button.
And then, so we're going to do the same thing that we just did.
So you're going to type in StreamYard and you're going to click on the app and
you're going to add it to your group. And now StreamYard is connected.
Now that we've connected StreamYard to your Facebook group,
now we can go live in that Facebook group.
So all you have to do is go up to create broadcast,
you're going to select that Facebook group, give it a fancy title,
give it an awesome description. And then you need to decide,
are you going to go live right now? Or are you going to schedule it for later?
Now first, before we go any further, let's talk about this section right here.
You want this check marked so that your users inside your Facebook group can
click on a link.
That's going to allow Facebook to display their face and their name with their
comments. Now I'll show you what that looks like here in just a minute.
But essentially this is to protect their privacy.
They need to give you permission to display their name and their face with the
comment,
because you could actually use this video in other destinations as well,
if you are multi streaming or if you are repurposing the video. Okay.
So let's go ahead and say that you actually want to schedule your stream for
later, which I highly recommend,
which gives your people in your community time to reserve time in their
schedule.
They can also click get notified so that they don't miss your live stream.
Now you can upload a fun, fancy image.
How fun is that one? Right?
This is actually going to show up in the preview when they see that you're going
to go live. So let's go ahead and say,
we're going to go live tomorrow at 5:00 PM, just for fun.
And then we're going to click create broadcast.
Now this is actually going to go ahead and schedule our stream,
which is actually going to give your users in your community, a preview,
and I'll show you what that looks like. Now, as you can see right here as well,
you have the preview, but also we have this link that I told you about. Now,
if they click on this,
it's actually going to allow the user to authenticate StreamYard and Facebook to
display your comments with your name and your face.
So all they have to do is click that and go back to the stream.
This makes it very easy for your users.
The other thing I really like about scheduling a stream is, as I said,
they can click get reminder,
which means they're going to get a notification when you actually go live. Now,
since we prescheduled this Facebook live for our group,
we're going to see it right here in our dashboard asa scheduled live video.
We can enter that broadcast studio and we can connect our audio and our video,
just like we do any other video that we do in StreamYard.
So here I am hello. We can customize our name.
We can get in there and we can customize our banners ahead of time.
All the fun things that you need to do to make sure you're ready to go live
inside your group and create an amazingly engaging live video.
There you have it. Now,
you know how to connect StreamYard to your Facebook group and use all of its
amazing features, when you go live in your Facebook group. Have fun!