IM in the office
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We've been using Google Talk in my company to pass information around for a few years now, but it has been suggested that we remove it completely and revert to using the phone. Do you think that's a good thing? Are you allowed to use IM where you work? I need strong arguments against the neo-Luddites!
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good one. seized the moment. ;)
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We've been using Google Talk in my company to pass information around for a few years now, but it has been suggested that we remove it completely and revert to using the phone. Do you think that's a good thing? Are you allowed to use IM where you work? I need strong arguments against the neo-Luddites!
viaducting wrote:
Do you think that's a good thing? Are you allowed to use IM where you work?
Whether it is a good or bad thing, depends on the type of business your company is doing. I can imagine i.e. defense contractors not wanting to use Google Talk for internal communication. Where I work, we use internally set up Lync[^] for voice, video, conferencing and IMs.
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We've been using Google Talk in my company to pass information around for a few years now, but it has been suggested that we remove it completely and revert to using the phone. Do you think that's a good thing? Are you allowed to use IM where you work? I need strong arguments against the neo-Luddites!
There are good alternatives, like Jabber or Yammer, where you are only exposed to others on the same company network, in the IM space, minimising distractions and idle social only chatter.
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We've been using Google Talk in my company to pass information around for a few years now, but it has been suggested that we remove it completely and revert to using the phone. Do you think that's a good thing? Are you allowed to use IM where you work? I need strong arguments against the neo-Luddites!
I suggested that we don't have any phones or IM in my office and let people communicate face to face by talking with each other - the old fashioned way.
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We've been using Google Talk in my company to pass information around for a few years now, but it has been suggested that we remove it completely and revert to using the phone. Do you think that's a good thing? Are you allowed to use IM where you work? I need strong arguments against the neo-Luddites!
We use something called Spark, which I have never used before, and which I am not at all impressed with because it is highly buggy and doesn't seem to play too well with Outlook and/or the VOIP system that they use here...
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon
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We've been using Google Talk in my company to pass information around for a few years now, but it has been suggested that we remove it completely and revert to using the phone. Do you think that's a good thing? Are you allowed to use IM where you work? I need strong arguments against the neo-Luddites!
You can't share code snippets very easily on the phone. We're required to use MS Communicator for chat here (and on my last assignment as well). It works OK, gets the job done. On a previous job I wrote a simple (SQL server-based) messaging system to share code with a colleague in another office. (It was also good for communications we didn't want to put into the e-mail system.)
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We've been using Google Talk in my company to pass information around for a few years now, but it has been suggested that we remove it completely and revert to using the phone. Do you think that's a good thing? Are you allowed to use IM where you work? I need strong arguments against the neo-Luddites!
viaducting wrote:
but it has been suggested that we remove it completely and revert to using the phone.
"Revert" is the right word for this. It's going backwards. There are times when you absolutely need synchronous, uninterrupted comms with somebody, but most of the time the polite thing to do is assume they have multiple things going on and send them a message that they can respond to according to their priorities at the moment.
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We've been using Google Talk in my company to pass information around for a few years now, but it has been suggested that we remove it completely and revert to using the phone. Do you think that's a good thing? Are you allowed to use IM where you work? I need strong arguments against the neo-Luddites!
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I suggested that we don't have any phones or IM in my office and let people communicate face to face by talking with each other - the old fashioned way.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
people communicate face to face by talking with each other
Was the suggestion popular among fellow geeks?
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We've been using Google Talk in my company to pass information around for a few years now, but it has been suggested that we remove it completely and revert to using the phone. Do you think that's a good thing? Are you allowed to use IM where you work? I need strong arguments against the neo-Luddites!
I'm not familiar with Google Talk, but if it uses the Internet (not limited to your intranet) it isn't secure. It probably also doesn't preserve a log of information sent and received, which could be critical in several circumstances to protect the company and/or you. Using the phone isn't the best solution, but you can record all calls and store them (we do), and it takes a physical tap on the phone line to access the voice calls. Still, IM is incredibly useful for its speed and convenience. I'd suggest looking into chat/IM systems that can be configured behind your firewall to exchange information inside your network, and which logs conversations to a server in case legal problems require access to them. Is Sonork still around? A bunch of us here used to use it for sidebar chats late at night while harassing the noobs infesting the Lounge, and I know that they offered a private host package for that purpose. There's bound to be others by now, so check around.
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We use MS Office Communicator and I think everyone thinks it's great. It's used togheter with mail and phone calls, depending on how important/urgent it is. The best part of it is showing peoples statuses, as it links directly to Outlook (sets your status to "In a meeting" or whatever) and our telephone system (so if they call on the regular landline number they go directly to voicemail if in a meeting). On important part for us is that no information leaves our company, everything is handled within our firewall and the server is maintained by us.
Since it is in sync with the outlook calendar, Ms office communicator is a fantastic tool. We are using this.
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Since it is in sync with the outlook calendar, Ms office communicator is a fantastic tool. We are using this.
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vy a duck? I though pigeons were the fowl of choice for communications....
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It is useful for us as devs because you can also send files and our email strips almost everything useful out of emails.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
people communicate face to face by talking with each other
Was the suggestion popular among fellow geeks?
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
Was the suggestion popular among fellow geeks?
It was Rama's sneaky attempt to completely remove any form of communication within the team.
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We've been using Google Talk in my company to pass information around for a few years now, but it has been suggested that we remove it completely and revert to using the phone. Do you think that's a good thing? Are you allowed to use IM where you work? I need strong arguments against the neo-Luddites!
We have an internal XMPP/jabber chat server. We can use any chat client that supports xmpp protocol. I don't know if people use IM very much here. I chat more by remote login to a linux machine which has a local IRC chat server. I chat with a couple others who are also remotely logged in to that machine.