Comments on: Communication: Kill Email Autoreplies. http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2008/04/28/communication-kill-email-autoreplies/ Digital Media Engineering Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:38:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Steve Ellwood http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2008/04/28/communication-kill-email-autoreplies/#comment-21384 Steve Ellwood Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:26:28 +0000 http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/?p=360#comment-21384 We need robust widespread presence services. Reluctant though I am to praise stuff from MSFT, I quite like Microsoft Office Communicator. That tells me when when colleagues are available, busy, in meetings, on the phone - or on leave. Would that it were the same for people outside the office. I think it was @ChrisBrogan who used folk's Twitter postings to determine of they were about or not... One colleague used to sent an out of office *telling* people their mail had been deleted unread, and could they resend it when he was back. Shame when he missed a pay review because of it. As you say, Gmail could do this. GoogleTalk/Pandion can exchange status messages - my son once asked me how long I was making coffee for when I forgot to change my status message. We need robust widespread presence services. Reluctant though I am to praise stuff from MSFT, I quite like Microsoft Office Communicator. That tells me when when colleagues are available, busy, in meetings, on the phone - or on leave. Would that it were the same for people outside the office.

I think it was @ChrisBrogan who used folk’s Twitter postings to determine of they were about or not…

One colleague used to sent an out of office *telling* people their mail had been deleted unread, and could they resend it when he was back. Shame when he missed a pay review because of it.

As you say, Gmail could do this. GoogleTalk/Pandion can exchange status messages - my son once asked me how long I was making coffee for when I forgot to change my status message.

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