Meebo: 10 Gotta Have Free Applications
Posted on November 14, 2007
Filed Under Communication, Free Applications |
I am going to shoot square with you, I am not a real big fan of instant messaging. But many of the people I minister to are and as such I feel that I need to make an effort to be accessible in a means they prefer. So a couple of times a week I log onto Meebo and make myself available to instant message.
Meebo is a web page that allows you to chat on all the major networks (and a few minor ones) via small boxes on your web page.
So if this interests you, surf over to Meebo and create your account. Once logged in you can, assuming you have chatted with Gtalk, Yahoo Chat, MSN Messenger, or AIM you can start using those chat platforms on that site.
I have created chat names for all the major platforms and have chatted with folks in my church on all of them via meebo. I do this because I know some of my people are MSN folks, while others are loyal to AIM, and the tech tips are into gtalk. Being available on all of them is my own little way of being electronically incarnational to my church.
Now, there are pieces of software that do the same things but I believe that web-based is better as the more software you load on your computer the slower it is going to run.
At this point meebo does not offer some of the advanced features that chatting software offers today such as voice and video chat, but they are working on it and likely will soon.
So if chatting is something that is helpful to you in ministry, dump your software and go meebo.
10 “gotta have” free application series:
2. Gmail with Pop Access: November 9
3. Web Clipping Software: November 12
4. Meebo: November 14
5. Skype: November 16
6. Open Office: November 19
7. RSS Readers: November 21
8. Mozy: November 23
9. Free System Tools: November 26
10. Jott: November 27
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