Streaming  on the internet is not subject to any licensing. Whether you do it depends on where your group is at.  
If you are on a ‘one-year’ licence and the number of broadcasting days is coming to an end (or you wish to expand the days your schedule operates), broadcasting on the internet provides a good means of keeping everyone involved and focused, building up volunteer skills, and importantly enhancing your track record.

Streaming on the internet at the same time as you broadcast is good, especially as your station becomes established. On a “One-year licence”, the size of the broadcast area is very limited. Streaming can be used to reach people from your community who cannot pick up your signal properly. They could be just outside the broadcast areas, or on the other side of the world. 

Using the Internet and Social Media to engage with your community
CRAOL recommends that you establish a simple website for your station as soon as possible.  It’s a great way to advertise your frequency & when you are broadcasting , promote your  station, and most importantly let people know they can get involved and how.

Increasingly stations are using social networking tools in order to promote their station, engage with the community, and to create a conversation between volunteers. Setting up a Twitter account for the station is easy and can suggest that people "follow" them in order to get frequent updates to let people know what's happening. Equally by 'following' community groups and other relevant twitterers like Craol, you can "retweet" information that may be of interest to your followers and your station is already acting a new space for reinforcing community activity. 

Some stations create the station as a profile on facebook, and then encourage volunteers, commuity organisations to be "friends" with them, still others create a Station Group page where everyone contributes. you can follow Craol on Twitter - http://twitter.com/CRAOL  Join the Craol group Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=83944664873 

Creating Pre-Recorded Downloads as an alternative to Internet Broadcasting
In the early days of your station, an alternative to broadcasting scheduled programmes on the Internet is to create downloadable pre-recorded programmes for your website. This can take the pressure off the need for a constant studio prescence while developing different skills in your volunteer base, location recordings, interviews, editing etc.
Creating pre-recorded programmes also builds a nest-egg of high quality programmes for when you go properly on-air. It also gets the volunteers used to the production of such programmes which form the bulk of funding for programming making through Sound and Vision.

CRAOL can give advice to its aspirant  members on streaming and setting up audio on their websites via it’s helpline helpline@craol.ie