ShopTalk – Web Chat for Online Discussions and Meetings
http://shoptalkapp.com/

If you instant message your coworkers, you should try ShopTalk. Keep your teams in touch with real-time group chat rooms. Sit in multiple chat rooms at once, without having to monitor each manually. Background tabs highlight to indicate activity in other rooms. Direct messages cause an audible alert and a glowing tab. Every chat room can be scrolled all the way back to day one. You can refer back to conversations that took place months ago. Institutional knowledge just became permanent. Quickly select one or more files to share with your team. Everyone gets a link to your files in the chat room. Thumbnails for image files are displayed in the chat automatically. Sending direct messages is a snap. Just start typing your colleague’s name and hit the Tab key to auto-complete the rest. Every keystroke counts. Group chat rooms combine the rapid collaboration power of instant messaging with the broadcasting capability of internal micro-blogging. There’s absolutely nothing to install. Your colleages can join the conversation from any computer that has internet access. It’s a solution for today’s mobile and distributed workforce. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.