Creating and hosting a video town hall

Creating and hosting a video town hall

Overview
Zoho Connect’s Video Town Hall feature allows organizations to host live video sessions for employees or community members. These sessions are perfect for company-wide updates, training, Q&A, and interactive discussions.
This guide explains how to create, host, manage a video town hall.
 

Creating a Video Town Hall  

  1. Go to Town Hall from the left menu.



  2. Click + New Town Hall in the bottom-left side.



  3. In the pop-up, enter session name and description.



    Select Live Broadcast.



  4. Choose Start Now for an instant session or Schedule for later to set a date and time.



  5. Select who can attend the session.



  6. Optionally, click Add Panelist to add assistants for you to the session.



  7. If required, you can add tags and enable recordings.



  8. Click Start.
  9. Set your video and audio preferences and click Start Streaming.



To learn how to join and participate in a town hall, check out this guide.
 

Starting a scheduled video town hall immediately

Sometimes you may want to start a video town hall earlier than planned.
To do that:
  1. Go to Town Hall from the left menu.
  2. From the extended menu, go to Upcoming sessions.



  3. Select the town hall you'd like to start immediately.
  4. Click Start Now.


 
Alternatively, open the feed post of the town hall you want to start immediately.
Click Start Now.


NotesUse Set Reminder to receive a notification prior the event.

We hope you find this guide useful! For more questions or feedback, get in touch with us at support@zohoconnect.com. We're happy to help!