Yahoo! Boo! To corporate IM policies
Posted by cheekymonkey on 11 April 2003 - 19:45 · 11 comments & 982 views
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#1 Posted by grimson on 11 Apr 2003 - 20:31
- What the .. !!
I am a system administrator and I do certainly not want to waste ay time (yet) to IM on the workplace. E:mail and Internetbrowsing take too much valuable work time away.
I hate it when companies indoctrinate the 'common people' like this
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#2 Posted by antsy on 11 Apr 2003 - 21:14
- Yahoo is the only IM that works at my college
Yahoo rules!
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#3 Posted by Mr. Black on 11 Apr 2003 - 22:03
- Unless this is for internal communication use only, it takes time away from WORKING just like employees browsing the web during work hours...It better have an option to turn off access to external Y! chat servers if they want it to succeed....
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#4 Posted by nacs on 11 Apr 2003 - 22:50
- By looking at just the title, I thought you were booing Yahoo at first.
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#5 Posted by Quick Reply on 12 Apr 2003 - 02:49
- [QUOTE]Sheesh, Neowin will be letting members submit their own news next![/QUOTE]Oh I hope not
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#6 Posted by Jon on 12 Apr 2003 - 10:58
- IM in a corporate workplace would lead to so many problems IMO and in my experience.
People act very differently when typing a conversation, than if it was face to face. I can see IM being used in place of conversations where one party may have found it akward, and it could lead to people with poor management skills, becoming management.
Obviously then there is the time wasting issue..
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#7 Posted by cesardrgn on 12 Apr 2003 - 16:19
- I don't really use Yahoo...
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#8 Posted by browniuk2000 on 12 Apr 2003 - 21:54
- i use yahoo a bit at school, they have baned MSN Messenger
Stupid RM / XP 'Hacked' System!
doese any one else use RM?
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#9 Posted by antsy on 12 Apr 2003 - 22:15
- another thing MSN messenger is on EVERY single comp at my college and not one work
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#10 Posted by mad_Dog on 14 Apr 2003 - 03:42
- if RM is realmedia then HELL NO!!!
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#11 Posted by mcloum on 14 Apr 2003 - 07:55
- RM = Research Machines. They hack the operating system until does what they want it to do then sell it for 10x the normal price. Our company on the other hand do things the proper way and lets the OS do the work and not a chimp behind a desk with a big green button with "FIX" written on it!
The Web portal has begun a campaign called "Save Smiley", in reference to Yahoo! Instant Messenger's smiley-face icons. What? I'm sure I've seen them elsewhere ;)
The campaign, which has launched in certain areas of Yahoo! asks users to inform them if a company has blocked instant messaging in the workplace. The Web giant plans to then approach these companies and to try to sell its enterprise IM service to their information technology departments.
"We've been seeing there's a trend emerging to block Messenger within corporations for security and control concerns," said Hillary Mickell, senior director of marketing in Yahoo!'s enterprise solutions division.
So, Yahoo! cuts the marketing dept.'s costs by letting millions of users do the work eh? Sheesh, Neowin will be letting members submit their own news next!
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