Meebo - A Follow-Up

I’ve just had a chat with one of my blog readers (at 3 pm on Thursday, 25 January 2007). I’m including, with permission, an (unedited) transcript of the chat I had (with Anna Hvass e-librarian at Teesside University Library) and a link to Teesside University Library’s chat service . [15:03] anna: Hi Brian – do you have time for a quick chat? [15:03] lisbk: Fine..

Who’s that? [15:04] anna: Anna Hvass e-librarian at Teesside University Library [15:04] lisbk: Hi. Where you at the MLA-NE do? [15:05] anna: Was at your presentation on web 2.0 [15:05] lisbk: [15:05] anna: lol – yep [15:05] lisbk: Fire away [15:06] anna: Was just looking at your post about meebo and wanted to share that we are using it for Chat Reference, and we just recently put a meebome widget on too [15:06] anna: http://www.tees.ac.uk/depts/lis/chat/default.cfm [15:07] anna: you mention using it that way so though I would share that we are – its going well slow at the moment but hope to advertise…. [15:09] lisbk: Thanks for that info. [15:10] lisbk: Just looked at your page [15:10] lisbk: Roddy McLeod had a similar interest [15:10] lisbk: BTW do you keep a record of the chats? [15:11] anna: yep – so that we can have a look back and see how we are doing [15:11] lisbk: That’s great.

Thanks for sharing that with me …. [15:11] lisbk: Would you mind if I published this discussion? [15:12] anna: your welcome – no that would be fine [15:12] lisbk: Ta. And would you mind it I linked to your http://www.tees.ac.uk/depts/lis/chat/default.cfm page [15:12] anna: nope thats fine too – its all advertising [15:13] anna: Im all for helping people find out how to use these free services to make the best service possible for our users I suspect that if I hadn’t provided the chat tool, Anna would not have got in touch to let me know about the developments at Teesside Something she confirmed in an email message).

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So for me, the Meebo experiment is proving useful in this respect.

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