Using Google Helpouts to offer your expertise, advice and office hours from anywhere

I'm pleased to be among the first batch of providers offering their services on Google's new Helpouts. They've built a clean marketplace for individual, one-on-one expertise over Google Plus Hangouts.

Hangouts is a disruptive communications tool offered for free by Google, that seems to eliminate any need for Skype's frustration, limitation and price. Not to mention the open ended capabilities of Hangouts via app plugins to enhance the real time experience.

One of the major features of Hangouts that make it an ideal tool for teaching is the ability to simply screen share. Without any effort you can show rather than say what you're discussing. Combined with multiple participants, and publishing a recording directly to YouTube, the ease of use is currently unmatched.

Today I'll be chatting with a handful of complete strangers about full stack web dev. Given any luck, I might even be able to help them out.