Sameer Agarwal » communicator http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog His views, thoughts, introspection and rants Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:42:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 People notice more than you think they do http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/11/people-notice-more-than-you-think-they-do.html http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/11/people-notice-more-than-you-think-they-do.html#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:53:17 +0000 sameer http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/?p=522 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.

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