Instant Messenger and work

[ctaylor]

Do any of you use instant messenger software at work to connect with other IT people for quick solutions?

I have contemplated it but find it hard to break from the pattern of drafting e-mail messages.

I like looking in my mailbox for info and fear the constant interruption of IMs.

What's your take.

[S.D.Willie]

if you could IM someone at work rather than type an email would that be quicker and more efficient? i think so for sure.
plus with file transfer and voice optimization its a pretty decent little program id have to say. although all buddy lists werent available yesterday for a little while!!!

SD

[hirschY]

Yahoo messanger seems to work just about everywhere.
I can get it to work here at work, with just the web proxy.
Works great!
I think ICQ can now do this too, but I already have a local corp server here, so I cant run it twice. trust me, bad things happen...

Personally, I liked the two way pagers we had for a year, they have a little keyboard on them!
They were totally cool, and we used them daily, until they went cheap on us.....

[ctaylor]

now there's a thought - transfering files which our e-mail filter would otherwise block.....

could be good for self extracting files for patches and emergency DAT transfers....

Sounds like it could be worthwhile....

Let me ruminate over it for a little longer...

[NeoStarO1]

I do not know which versions this is advailable on all windows platforms, but what about using the winpopups?

Only drawback to instant messaging at work and requiring a response immediately they need to be at the computer now to get the msg.



On another note

Personally, I liked the two way pagers we had for a year, they have a little keyboard on them!
They were totally cool, and we used them daily, until they went cheap on us.....

I have the motorola T950 two way pager, its sweet! Great to get ahold of me for emergencys and also for people to tell me to answer my phone. I use this mainly because of the fact that I am deaf and cannot hear the phone ring and don't always see my light flashing to tell me the phone has been activated.

NeoStar

[eweruk]

Been using MSN , Yahoo, Instant Messenger, and ICQ for a while to communicate with remote IT and local. Works good and saves a phone call or email.