IBM Workplace Managed Client users: If your company uses IBM Workplace Collaboration Services for instant messaging, features may differ from the IBM Lotus Sametime instant messaging features described here. For information on instant messaging with Workplace Collaboration Services, see the Instant Contacts section of IBM Workplace Managed Client Help.

Notes instant messaging allows you 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. See Starting a chat for more information.
• Chat transcript: A text log of a chat conversation. With instant messaging, chat participants can save chat transcripts to their Mail database or file system. See Saving a chat or instant meeting transcript to Mail and Saving a chat or instant meeting transcript to a file for more information.
• Groups: People in your Instant Messaging Contact List are organized in groups. See Adding a group to the Instant Messaging Contact List for more information. The two types of groups are:
  • Private groups: Groups that you define. You can add people from the company's Lotus Sametime directory to your private groups.
  • Public groups: Groups from your company's Lotus Sametime directory. Your system administrator defines the contents of public groups.
• Instant meeting: An online chat meeting that, if your Lotus Sametime server has Web conferencing capability, can include audio, video, screen sharing, and a whiteboard. You can start an instant meeting immediately, from a chat, a mail message, a meeting document, a group To Do document, the Instant Messaging Contact List, or the main menu. Once an instant meeting starts, anyone can invite other online people to join the meeting. See Starting an instant meeting for more information.
• Instant Messaging Contact List: A list of your colleagues. You create your Instant Messaging Contact List. See The Instant Messaging Contact List for more information.
• 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. See Searching the Lotus Sametime directory for more information.
• IBM Lotus Sametime server: The server to which you must be connected to use Notes instant messaging. See Connecting to a Lotus Sametime server for more information.
• Online awareness: The ability to see the online status of others in your mail views and mail messages. For more information, see Showing or hiding online awareness for names.
• Online status: Your online status tells other people if you are available for online chats and instant meetings. See Managing your online status for more information.
• 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. See Customizing your online status messages for more information.
• 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 present files, draw images, and enter text (available only if your Lotus Sametime server has Web conferencing capability).

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