Thing 8 - IMs

I used Google talk to IM with a co-worker. I did have to download the tool to do it with.

I like the idea of web conferencing instead of going to meetings. Meetings take up alot of time, and if you can "go to it", while staying at your branch, seems like that's a winner.

I once tried Second Life (very briefly) and you are basically IMing with the virtual folks around you. I like this form of communication. In earlier times, I liked writing letters much better than talking on the phone, but this probably indicates that I may be a slow IMer, since I prefer to consider my words and do rewrites. IM seems to have a pretty quick receive and respond rythm to it.