Basic Chat Skills or Proficiencies

Test your skills with these tasks (listed in order of difficulty):

1. Practice going online, then offline using the presence feature
2. Respond to an invitation to IM
3. Chat with someone until you feel comfortable
4. Add colleagues to your buddy list
5. See if colleagues are online
6. IM a colleague
7. Record statistics
8. Use the "info" feature to get more information about a user
9. Practice pasting words and URLs into the conversation
10. Practice opening a browser and multitasking between Ask a Librarian IM and the browser
11. Practice moving between different IM tabs with different users
12. Practice logging a conversation
13. Paste a log into an email and send it