You can use Notes instant messaging to see your co-workers online and have chat sessions with them.

The following terms will help you get started with instant messaging:

• Chat: A real-time text conversation. You can chat with any of your online colleagues.
• Chat transcript: A text log of a chat conversation. With instant messaging, chat participants can save chat transcripts to their Mail application or file system.
• Groups: People in your instant messaging contact list are organized in groups. There are two types of groups:
  • Private groups: Groups that you define by including names from your company's Lotus Sametime directory.
  • Public groups: Groups that your system administrator defines by including names from your company's Lotus Sametime directory.
• Instant meeting: An online chat meeting that can include audio, video, screen sharing, and a whiteboard , if your Lotus Sametime server has Web conferencing capability. You can start an instant meeting immediately, from a chat, a mail message, a meeting document, a group To Do document, the Sametime instant messaging contact list, or the main menu. Once an instant meeting starts, any participant can invite other people to join the meeting.
• Instant messaging contact list: A list of your colleagues. You create your instant messaging contact list .
• Lotus Sametime directory: A master list of all people associated with your company with whom you can exchange instant messages. Your system administrator maintains your company's Lotus Sametime directory. You access the directory when you add names to your instant messaging contact list or invite people to instant meetings.
• IBM Lotus Sametime server: The server to which you must be connected to use instant messaging.
• Online awareness: The ability to see the online status of others, for example, in your mail views, mail messages, and instant contact list.
• Online status: Your online status tells other people if you are available for online chats and instant meetings.
• Online status message: The text that appears when people point to your name in the Instant messaging contact list. You can use the default online status messages or create customized ones.
• Screen sharing: In an online meeting, screen sharing allows you to share your screen or a computer program with other participants (available only if your Lotus Sametime server has Web conferencing capability).
• Whiteboard: In an online meeting, the whiteboard allows you to draw images and enter text (available only if your Lotus Sametime server has Web conferencing capability).

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