Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Chat Reference Stuff

Here are some links related to yesterday's discussion of IM reference.

DL Get Help page (There's only one status indicator now. Nice work Jennifer!)
Trillian (Multiplatform chat program we'll be using. Free download.)
IM Powerpoint (Relive the magic in the comfort of your office or home!)
Text Message Abbreviations and Smilies (Very good list of commonly used chat shorthand and emoticons. Thanks Jennifer!) - Updated 6/23/05

If you're interested in participating in the pilot please let me know. Also let me know if you feel comfortable chatting right away or would like to do some training first. Jennifer and I will be glad to assist anyone. We can add people to the rotation at any time.

2 comments:

Jennifer said...

Phone numbers added to the Get Help page, too (Ann's idea...brilliant!) Please let me know if that's not the correct/best number for your ref desk.

Jennifer said...

One more thing: If you use AIM (could happen with Yahoo, too, but I'm not sure) Trillian will merge all of your buddies for all of your accounts into Trillian. This means that your personal buddies could show up for anyone who logs into gpclibrarians.

There is a fix. Call me if you have any concerns.