{"id":1097,"date":"2007-07-27T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T19:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/the-im-wave\/"},"modified":"2007-07-27T14:35:34","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T19:35:34","slug":"the-im-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/the-im-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"The IM Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a rather robust discussion at Select Metrix yesterday regarding corporate uses of instant messaging (IM).&nbsp; I, being a self-proclaimed techno-geek, believe that IM will replace email in the near future.&nbsp; Well, according to a CareerJournal.com article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerjournal.com\/myc\/officelife\/20070725-mamberto.html?mod=RSS_Career_Journal&amp;cjrss=frontpage\" target=\"_blank\">Instant Messaging Is Invading And Changing the Workplace<\/a>, that future may be now (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But tech consultant Gartner Inc. projects that instant messaging will be the &#8220;de facto tool for voice, video and text chat&#8221; for 95% of employees in big companies <em>within five years<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a rather robust discussion at Select Metrix yesterday regarding corporate uses of instant messaging (IM).&nbsp; I, being a self-proclaimed techno-geek, believe that IM will replace email in the near future.&nbsp; Well, according to a CareerJournal.com article titled Instant Messaging Is Invading And Changing the Workplace, that future may be now (emphasis mine): But tech consultant Gartner Inc. projects that instant messaging will be the &#8220;de facto tool for voice, video and text chat&#8221; for 95% of employees in big companies within five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-hH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->