Hello all,
I do hope that you all enjoyed the week on IM and picked up some new skills and ideas (both regarding IM and IM in the library/work world).
In my new job I've been using IM quite a bit...thing I find most funny is the person that I IM the most is the person who's the physically closest to me, but I will say that it's been a very effective medium to communicate in a work environment with multiple buildings, multiple floors, multiple work teams, etc.
The one thing I know that some of you found "difficult" was coordinating with your partner to have a discussion...as we move on through the class we'll be working with more asynchronous tools, but please don't forget IM...it's a quick, easy, heavily used tool that is fantastic for communication.
Additionally, some of you may have noticed that meebo can be a bit buggy (people who are on appearing as off and vice-versa). Welcome to the world of "free" software. Some things will work just fine, others won't. For me meebo works about 95% of the time and it's interesting how fast you adjust to the faults of the system rather than finding a system that's robust enough to handle all user behaviors (but more about this as we go through class).
Additionally, some of you may have noticed that meebo can be a bit buggy (people who are on appearing as off and vice-versa). Welcome to the world of "free" software. Some things will work just fine, others won't. For me meebo works about 95% of the time and it's interesting how fast you adjust to the faults of the system rather than finding a system that's robust enough to handle all user behaviors (but more about this as we go through class).
2 comments:
Perhaps one way to coordinate communication with partners can actually be through leaving posts on their wiki's like a sticky "I'll be on AIM from 8-10 on monday"
I know we have email, but for some reason, I think this idea may work.
not a bad idea...I'll keep that one in mind
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