Our First Facebook Live

Have you experienced doing a Facebook Live? Facebook Live is a live stream shown on Facebook Although you can also show recorded videos and play it live, it’s basically for live videos.

For me, it’s a thrilling experience, especially that I get to do it with my daughter. I was proud of her because she was a natural and she also supported this event for me.

This Facebook Live event was part of a Mother’s Day series for Absolute Distilled Drinking Water, the distilled water brand of choice for moms in the Philippines. It has been the brand we use for years so I was happy to do this event for them. For this live event, I used a Google Chrome Book and an A4Tech PK 920H camera.

How do you go live on Facebook?

From Facebook:
To go live:
Click What’s on your mind, [Name]? at the top of your News Feed. Click then click Live Video. Write something about your live video. Click Go Live in the bottom left.
Note: Use the Google Chrome web browser to go live from your computer.

You can share a watch party in other groups and you can also save and download a copy of your live event afterward

Please do watch our Facebook Live event for Absolute Distilled Drinking Water which I’ve uploaded on YouTube.

It was a fun experience because we get to do what we love which is baking. We showed how to make a simple chocolate birthday cake and I chose it because I know how most moms love to give presents for their kids, and for me, baking a chocolate cake will always be one of the best. When you get to bake for other people, you will appreciate how tedious baking can be, and how you give your heart for it, or else, your cake or anything that you do won’t taste as good as it should be. When you cook or bake something, you give a piece of your heart with it, and that’s how I always look at it.

Despite my nervousness, I was happy that we went through the event successfully. We were able to finish the recipe and showed a beautiful piece of cake at the end of the live stream. I was also able to impart many baking tips to the viewers. In my daughter’s part, I felt that through this experience, she gained more confidence in herself and that she can show herself to other people naturally because she has a beautiful personality.

I’ve seen so many people who are using Facebook Live to sell stuff and present ideas and many of them are so used and confident on it. For me, it’s a powerful feature in Facebook that can really be utilized to spread information. If you think you have good content, you should try it to help others and have it as a form of advertisement for your products or your blog.

It was a new experience for me, and like YouTube, I also wish to help others learn from the simple things I do. It’s my way of giving back.