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Tuesday, April 02, 2002

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Instant Messenger is not your enemy
Elliott Masie

Instant Messenger (IM) is a huge corporate tool, yet it is rarely mentioned in corporate productivity or learning plans. In fact, most IM usage is not corporately provided or managed, but is an informal system created by users, installing software for Yahoo!, AOL or Microsoft systems. A recent study by Jupiter Media Metrix breaks down IM-user estimates in the US into home and work categories. For IM at work, it found 8.8 million AOL IM users, 4.8 million MSN IM users and 3.4 million Yahoo! IM users....

 


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