Check out this piece over on betanews.com talking about how instant messenger use is on par with email use these days. This isn’t surprising to me. It is a source of minor frustration in that I have had at best mixed success trying to convince educators that they should begin using IM as a way to communicate with their students. I’ve also had mixed success convincing institutions they should be providing IM services to their campuses – at Bowdoin I came within a hair’s breadth of solving this before I left, but I guess after my departure it fell apart. Skidmore’s willing to talk about it but that’s about as far as it goes. I’m blogging about this mainly for myself, so I have this link around later to point to the next time I have one of my ‘would you consider adopting IM as part of your communications toolkit’ conversations at work.