Do Re Meebo Me!

Instant Messaging (IM) is a simple, easy way to communicate with others around the world's corner. Distance becomes moot. Cool? You bet!

If you visit this blog you may have noticed the Meebo graphic to your left. Clicking on that will take you to an IM portal. That's what Meebo does: it allows you to IM anyone you know who has an IM nickname or ID. No software to download, no unnecessary steps to connect with someone with an IM ID. Mine is from the Yahoo! network: freerangelibrarian. I use Meebo to talk to other SPLAT members, my students, family, and you--if you want to try it.

The folks at Meebo were pleasantly surprised to get a lot of love from librarians. From the Meebo blog, you can read the "Librarian Love" post and the comments that poured in after it. One librarian pointed out a wiki titled "Online Reference" where there's a section of libraries using Meebo for their reference service. I didn't see any Idaho libraries in there. Yet.

Last updated: December 13, 2006 - 2:40pm by memo

meebo ME
Comment by: christine; December 13, 2006 - 5:24pm
I've been using Meebo (not MeeboMe) this fall for IM service for students, though I haven't marketed it...just wanted to test the waters. I think that having MeeboMe right on our main library web site would definitely generate some traffic, if I can work it into the design. It is on my post maternity leave to do list, if I can convince IT to give the go-ahead. So I'm hoping to launch a Terteling Library MeeboMe by Fall07.

Meebo
Comment by: memo; December 14, 2006 - 9:34am
I believe you're right, Christine. If you provide students with an easy to use, on-the-spot way to communicate with your library--without going through a lot of set up; Meebo is as easy as visiting a link--you will have an added value service. Your Terteling Library MeeboMe plan would be a fantastic service for your library users. I use the Meebo Me widget for my class blog (http://univ106.blogspot.com/) which allows my students to connect with me when they run into trouble. And it is super easy to implement. So please keep us updated as you implement the Terteling Library MeeboMe service.

Which one is better? Meebo
Comment by: Anonymous; September 22, 2008 - 8:16am
Which one is better? Meebo or MeeboMe ? if you know the differences please tell them.

sorry for the delay
Comment by: anna; October 8, 2008 - 3:25pm
Meebo is the IM service and MeeboMe is one of the tools that Meebo provides. MeeboMe is a widget (a little piece of code) that you can embed on a webpage.  It puts a little box there so that anyone who goes to that page can IM you.  To see it in action go to this page: http://splat.lili.org/splat101/im scroll down to the bottom of the entry - before the comments.  Does this answer your question?

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