| Introduction |
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PART 1 GETTING YOUR GAME ON |
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Chapter 1 Welcome to the World of Twitch |
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Deciding Whether Twitch Is for You |
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You want to connect with a community based on your passions or hobbies |
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You want to turn your subject of interest into a social experience |
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You want to generate excitement |
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You have a cause that needs attention |
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You want to have a little fun |
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Creating a Twitch Account |
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Insert coins to begin: The basics |
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New Twitch, who dis: Completing the Profile |
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All in the details: Channel and videos settings |
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Controlling the signal: From privacy to connected third parties |
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Learning at the Feet of Masters: Following and Subscribing to Twitch Channels |
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Chapter 2 Building a Streamer's Studio |
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Where Are You Streaming From? |
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Non-Essentials That Are Essential |
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Chapter 3 Making First Impressions |
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Creating a Complete Twitch Channel |
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Deciding what Info Panels you should create |
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Editing and deleting Info Panels |
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Streaming Off Your Console |
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Setting up your PS4 for streaming |
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Setting up your Xbox One for streaming |
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Chapter 4 And We're Live! (Wait, We're LIVE?!) |
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Streaming Your First Gameplay |
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OMG! I'm live! What do I do now?! |
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Post-Show Production: What to Do After a Stream |
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Take a bow: Social media shout-outs |
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YouTube: Your content, on demand |
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Chapter 5 Improving Your Stream: Being Your Own Harshest Critic |
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G, PG, PG-13, or R: What's the Rating? |
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Setting the Mature Content option |
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The parameters of "Adult Content" |
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Popularity Versus Pleasure: What You Are Streaming? |
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Streaming games you enjoy |
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Beyond Consoles: Streaming without Video Games |
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Streaming in the real world |
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Sharing your creative pursuits |
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PART 2 CREATING YOUR BROADCASTING STUDIO |
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Chapter 6 Streaming without Constraints: Streaming from a PC |
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Looking under the Hood: What a PC Needs |
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The computer processor (CPU) |
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Random Access Memory (RAM) |
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Game On, Again: Setting Up Your Console |
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Streamlabs OBS: Where Creativity and Interactivity Happen |
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Adding a console in your template |
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Customizing your template |
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Video Is Easy; Audio Is Hard |
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Using the Astro A50 MixAmp Pro as your Party Chat solution |
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Using Discord as your Party Chat solution |
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Before Returning to Orbit, Guardian |
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Chapter 7 Setting Schedules and Social Media |
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Same Bat-Time, Same Bat-Channel: Setting Your Schedule |
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From start to finish: A basic schedule |
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Your own pocket of time: The length of your stream |
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Consistency and Communication |
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Notifications on Facebook and Twitter |
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When Life Happens: Changes in the Schedule |
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Chapter 8 Bells & Whistles: Nifty Add-Ons for Your Twitch Stream |
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Stand By For Stream: Introduction and Intermission B-roll |
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Second-in-Command: Channel Moderators |
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Nightbot: Your Friendly Neighborhood Virtual Assistant |
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Say it again and again: Custom commands |
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Locking it down: Spam protection |
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Self-promotion on Twitch: Working with timers |
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Chapter 9 Setting the Stage |
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Love What You've Done with the Place: Overlays |
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Quiet on the Set: One Final Look at Your Twitch Studio |
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Twitch on the Go: Streaming from the Twitch App |
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PART 3 GETTING BUSY WITH THE BUSINESS OF TWITCH |
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Chapter 10 Lef s GOOOOO, Chat: Welcome to the Show! |
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Who, What, Where: Your Show Intro |
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Gitting Gud at Multitasking: Responding to Chat |
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Checking with Chat in real time |
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Checking with Chat at specific segments |
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Taking a Bow: Ending Your Stream |
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Creating Content for Two (or More): Hosting Interviews |
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Asking really great questions |
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Avoiding really bad questions |
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Prepping Your Green Room for Guests |
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Welcoming in-studio guests |
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Meeting guests on their own turf |
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Chapter 11 The In-Between Streams |
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Meanwhile, at Penguin's Secret Lair: Your Channel between Streams |
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Why host other streamers? |
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Selecting other streamers |
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Twitch on Demand: Past Broadcasts |
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Past broadcasts on Twitch |
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Past broadcasts on YouTube |
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Highlight Videos: Revisited |
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iGame, Therefore iTwitch: Creating Highlight Reels with iMovie |
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Creating your highlight reel with iMovie |
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Exporting Your Highlight Reel from iMovie |
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Elementary, Dear Watson: Video Editing with Adobe Premiere |
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Importing video with Premiere Elements |
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Creating your highlight reel with Premiere Elements |
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Exporting your highlight reel from Premiere Elements |
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Chapter 12 From Hobby to Side Hustle ... to Full-Time Job? |
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Entry Level Pro: The Affiliate Streamer |
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Expressing yourself: Emotes |
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Expressing your loyalty: Sub badges |
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Showing support: Subscribers |
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A penny for your thoughts: Bits |
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Achievement Unlocked: Partnership |
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Why become a Twitch Partner? |
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The checklist for a Twitch Partner |
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Show me the money: Revenue opportunities |
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This Twitch Stream is sponsored by |
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So, Chat, let me tell you about this amazing product from |
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Don't Quit Your Day Job Just Yet |
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PART 4 BEYOND THE CONSOLE |
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Chapter 13 Building Your Twitch Community |
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Check Me Out Now: Publicizing Your Stream |
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Who Is `The Fam" and Why Do They Matter? |
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Oh, hai, Mark: Talking to Chat |
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Kinda busy right now: When not to engage |
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The Fam includes other streamers too |
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The Community Board: Discord |
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Share with the class: Talking to your Chat |
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One-on-one: Direct messages in Discord |
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Chapter 14 Twitch Etiquette |
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Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out: Bad Behavior on Twitch |
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"Yo, check out my stream ..." |
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They see me trollin' and hatin' |
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Making a Music Bed for Your Channel |
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The Big Three of content management |
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The grey area: Twitch, Spotify, and the Compromise |
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I'll Take the First: Free Speech versus Slander |
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When your kids want to stream |
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Burnout: The Specter of Twitch |
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Chapter 15 Game Over: Twitch Outside of Gaming |
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Game On: The Rise of eSports |
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Bungie TV: Going Live with the Latest |
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How Can I Help You: ServiceNow |
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Coding at the Speed of Chill: SKFroi |
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A Twitch Worth a Thousand Words: Dawn McTeigue |
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Harping on a Passion: Meadow Fox |
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Gaming for Good: Charity Streams |
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Doing a little prep before you get started |
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Setting up the collection jar |
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Chapter 16 Ten Twitch Streamers Who Influenced the Author |
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RealMunchle (read as "RealMunchie") |
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Chapter 17 Ten (or More) Life Lessons from Twitch |
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Twitch Continuously Makes Me Strive to Be Better |
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Twitch Opened the World to Me |
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Success Is Waiting for You If You Are Ready to Work for It |
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Insults Can Sometimes Be the Highest Form of Flattery |
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No Matter the Time, No Matter the Place, You Always Have Someone Watching Your Back |
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When You Doubt Is the Time to Work Harder |
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Don't Love the Game. Love the Player |
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If s a Glimpse of How Good We Can Be |
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To Thine Own Self Be True |
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No, Really ... Just Be Yourself |
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Speak from the Head as Well as the Heart |
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There Are a Lot of Good People Out in the World. Connect with Them |
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It's Not the Tech That Matters. If s You |
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Once through the Looking Glass, What New Possibilities Await? |
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A Few Final Words from a TeeMonster |
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