We use Microsoft Communicator for instant messaging at work. Communicator has an option of setting a status message which is visible to everyone who has you on their contact list, but in a rather non-intuitive manner (see below; the pinned note; on taking the mouse over the status message of the contact appears as tool-tip text).
I did use to check status messages of other people on my contact list generally, but I thought that was just me and my quirks. So I thought I’ll test it out.
And so, I put a status message saying that
FY09 planning for iKnow on… If you bothered to check my status – well, then may as well pass on some ideas
Now who would read it I thought. But the truth of the matter is that several people did. Interesting….!
PS: iKnow is an integrated Knowledge Management, information and communications program for one of the teams (Decision Support and Analytics Services [DSAS]) at Hewlett-Packard.
on Nov 11th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Haha…its funny…I also thought its just my whim