Quest 3: Instant Messaging

This portion of the program was easy. I went in and immediately made a contact list that consisted of my library staff members. I had a staff member that "I'M'ed" me right away as sort of a test. She told me to check out her background on IM; however, I haven't figured out how to do it yet. When she looked at the messenger screen compared to the messenger screen on the computer that she was on, we discovered that the screens had some differences. Was this a difference in the version of Yahoo Messenger that was downloaded? The verdict is still out on that. While in messenger, she showed me how to create an image in Avatar that will appear in my email and messenger post when people receive messages from me. That was interesting and fun to create. The next thing that I did was to add the library's IM id to my contact list. I took a page from Vickie's blog experience with the next step. I emailed them a question and in a few minutes they responded with a helpful answer. Wow! Welcome to a new dimension of technology. It's amazing to actually use and experience the technology out there. I have a lot of friends that talk about instant messaging all the time. I've been a little relunctant and slow to gravitate to the process. I see why people communicate this way now versus emailing or just emailing and then waiting on a response. You are being connected to them in real time and it is just so much faster. This Techtreck 2.0 process is really pushing me forward into a new millenium of possibilities and that is of great benefit to me!