Group chat allows for persons to be be able to instant message either directly to another person or to groups of persons. They are often proposed as a faster collaborative solution than e-mail alone and typically offer features such as
- ability to group instant messages into group of members or via topics (or both)
- mobile clients so you can respond on your phone
- ability to search messages
- messages are seamlessly synced to all devices, mobile and desktop
- integrates with other third party services (Dropbox, etc)
Group chat services
The TTF will be evaluating several of these group chat services to see if these could be used by At-Large
- Slack (http://www.slack.com) - The At-Large Social Media Working Group used Slack https://icann-at-large.slack.com/ during the ICANN 50th London meeting to coordinate content for sharing during the At-Large Summit II.
- HipChat (https://www.hipchat.com/)
- Hall (https://hall.com/)