At UCISA conference June and I were talking over lunch one day with a sales representative from Damovo, a business communications company specialising in voice of IP services. We got onto discussing telephony systems, messaging and voice over IP. I mentioned that one of my colleague is keen to set up skype for phone calls and that I find instant messaging a real benefit for quick interactions with work colleagues. The Damovo rep mentioned that Janet Talk is a new initiative being launched soon for the Janet community as a whole. Although I’m keen to explore the messaging available in GroupWise it will be restricted to our department. A community approach to communication services would seem to make sense for team working and collaboration services, not just for us but for students and researchers. Clearly this not an emerging technology but it sounds like an innovation to apply the ‘social’ technology to an entire community.
http://www.ja.net/development/talk.html
http://www.ja.net/development/voip.html
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This sounds very cool and would be great if we could get more people onboard. I’m definitely in!
The problem is not always that the technology isn’t available, as it clearly is in this case, but that everyone within the community has to be able to access and want to use it.
The words that jump out at me on the Janet Talk web page? ‘Shared whiteboard’, am I a geek or what?