Excellent overview of Hangout Comment Tracker - a must have app whether you are hosting a HOA or want to keep track...

Excellent overview of Hangout Comment Tracker - a must have app whether you are hosting a HOA or want to keep track of discussions on a specific topic. 

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Originally shared by Randulo Par

Show G+, Youtube and Twitter Comments on One Page

I do at least one HoA per week, and the production is complicated for reasons I won't go into here. We have a different guest each week, and when people are watching on Youtube, they may comment there. Others may have a Twitter client open and want to comment there. Speaking of Twitter, people may have sent advance questions with a hashtag. Then there's the actual post on Google Plus. (As it happens we also use IRC, so there's yet another window to watch!) Oh, and then there's the Hangout window chat.

How am I supposed to follow all these sources at once?, you ask.

Answer: With the Comment Tracker Stand-alone App:
http://www.allmyplus.com/hangout-comment-tracker/app.html

Look at the image I used to illustrate this gem.

Post/Searches type a query term, hashtag or URL in here, and depending on which you want to follow, click on the appropriate button.

Add URL - If you have entered a Youtube or G+ post URL, click on this and  you will see on the left, an item for each of these.
Search G+ or Search Twitter will track the term in G+ or Twitter.

Note that for Twitter, most posts are public (unless protected) whereas G+ may have public posts anyone can see, but also private ones that the Tracker can not see, due to API restrictions, even though you can see them on G+. In English: the Tracker can not see Limited Posts from anyone.

Below in the left column, is a Youtube video URL from randulo2008, then a G+ post on Plus Real Time and finally a Twitter search for the hashtag #vucNexus7Talk .

Another great feature is that you can send the URL to anyone who may be participating or helping in the production but not necessarily on G+. 

I'll be putting this to the test on our Friday session, but it looks like it's the dream app. :-)

Thanks to Gerwin Sturm for providing this!