IBM Lotus Sametime 8 Essentials: A User's Guide电子书

IBM Lotus Sametime 8 Essentials

Table of Contents

IBM Lotus Sametime 8 Essentials

Credits

About the Authors

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Conventions

Reader feedback

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. At the Starting Line: Know Your Sametime Client

What's all the fuss about instant messaging?

Why use Sametime?

Types of Sametime clients

The Sametime system offerings

Summary

2. Getting Connected: Configuring and Using Sametime for Lotus Notes

So exactly what is the "embedded" Sametime client?

Getting connected to Sametime

Starting Sametime with single sign-on

Making Sametime work the best way for you

Adding a contact

What is Sametime "status"?

Starting a chat with a contact

Summary

3. Getting Connected: Configuring and Using Sametime Connect

Installing Sametime Connect on Windows

Installing Sametime Connect on a Macintosh

Installing Sametime Connect on Linux

Setting up the connection to the Sametime server

Setting up user preferences

Installing Sametime Connect add-ons

Upgrading Your Sametime Connect client

Summary

4. Managing Your Connections: Making the most of your Sametime Contacts

Managing your contacts

Contact list and "type ahead"

Adding contacts

Adding contacts from your inbox

Removing contacts

Importing and exporting contacts

Displaying online contacts

Setting preferences for contacts

Understanding different directory types

Contact nicknames

Managing contacts with contact groups

Sorting the group or contact list

Managing groups and contacts between different Sametime clients

Contact lists and business card information

Managing your online presence

Sametime status settings

Sametime privacy settings

Contact list awareness using alerts

Sametime automatic status changes

Group chatting

Summary

5. Power Chatting: Making the most of Sametime Instant Messaging

Spice up your text communication

Rich text and text styles

Date stamps

Chat history

Spell-checking your chat messages

Uploading and displaying files, graphics, and web links

Sending files

Sending graphics

Sending links

Sending announcements

Explain yourself with the screen capture tool

Get emotional with emoticons

Audio/video services

Voice chatting

Video chatting

Telephone to telephone chatting

Integrating Sametime with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft SharePoint

Summary

6. Spread the Word: Connecting to other Messaging Communities

Connect to your local Sametime community

Connecting to external Sametime communities

Connecting to other instant messaging users: AOL, Google, and Yahoo

Directory types: Domino versus LDAP

Summary

7. iNotes and Sametime—Chatting from the Web

Using Sametime in iNotes

Enable instant messaging

Chatting from iNotes

Displaying Sametime contacts in the sidebar

Adding and managing contacts

Set and edit your status message

Help! I need somebody!

Summary

8. Going Mobile—Installing and Using the Sametime Mobile Client

Supported devices for Sametime Mobile

Packaging the Sametime Mobile client for download

Downloading and installing Sametime Mobile

Using the Sametime Mobile client

Logging into Sametime Mobile

Beginning a chat

Sending an announcement

Multiple chat conversations

Quick responses

Adjusting Sametime Mobile client preferences

Changing display preferences

Setting notification preferences

Setting up customized status messages

Managing and chatting with Sametime Mobile contacts

Managing your groups from Sametime Mobile

Chat history preferences

Securing Sametime Mobile

Getting help with Sametime Mobile

Summary

9. Meeting Basics—Using Sametime to Create Virtual Meeting Spaces

What is Sametime Meeting Center?

Browser requirements for Sametime meetings

Getting started in Sametime Meeting Center

Security and authentication for Sametime meetings

Creating a new online meeting

Creating a meeting with the Sametime instant messaging client

Breakout meeting sessions

Chairing a meeting

Participating in a meeting

Participant list

Adding web pages to your meeting

Web Polling

Group chat

Leaving or ending a meeting

Need help?

Summary

10. Meeting Beyond the Conference Room—Using Additional Sametime Meeting Features

Screen sharing

Whiteboarding

Communicating with voice, video, and audio

Saving and using meeting materials

Best practices for online meetings

Best practices and etiquette for online meetings

Need help in the meeting center?

Summary

11. Take Your Instant Messaging to the Next Level—Sametime Advanced

Getting started with chat rooms

Using chat rooms in a web browser

Using chat rooms in the Sametime Connect client or Notes Embedded client

Managing broadcast communities

Using instant share

Sametime geographic locations

When you need help

Summary

12. Speak Up—Taking Advantage of Sametime Unified Telephony

What is Sametime Unified Telephony (SUT)?

Using Sametime Unified Telephony features

Getting help

Summary

A. Sametime 8.5 and 8.5.1 New Features

New features in Sametime 8.5

Browser-based client

Sametime 8.5 meetings

iPhone and Sametime 8.5

Summary

B. Using Sametime in Chat-Enabled Applications

Lotus Quickr

Sametime and Lotus Connections

Sametime and custom applications

Sametime and Microsoft products

Summary

C. Additional Sametime Resources

Sametime basics

Sametime client feature how-to's

Sametime Advanced

Sametime Unified Telephony

Sametime 8.5 information

Miscellaneous Sametime information

The "Official" Sametime song

Index