Chatter Messenger — Generally Available from Summer 12 Release

Available in: Group, Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, Contact Manager, and Developer Editions

Chatter Messenger will allow for secure instant messaging for people that follow one another using Chatter. By default, Chatter Messenger will be enabled for any organization that uses Chatter, including Chatter Free and Chatter Only licenses.

We can:

 

ü  Enable and Disable Chat from our Salesforce.com Org completely or for only Visualforce Pages

ü  Change Chat Status

People can see our status and collaborate real-time

•       In their chat lists

•       On our profile page

•       On people hovers

ü  Chat Real time and collaborate with People

§  We can start a chat with anyone we follow, whether it is a colleague or a partner

§  Optionally, we can add up to 10 people to the chat when we for greater collaboration

ü  Adding/Removing People to the My Favorites List in Chat

§  The list of people we follow in Chatter can be long. Add up to 100 chats with one or more people to our My Favorites list and they’ll always show up at the top of our chat list.

§  Remove chats with one or multiple people from our My Favorites list if we chat with them less often

ü  Popping Out Chat Windows

§  Keep chatting—even when we minimize our browser or use other applications—by popping out a chat or our chat list into a separate browser window.

ü Adding Emoticons to a Chat like  :-), :), :], =)  :/, :-/, :\, :-\

ü  Edit Chat Options like changing status to away and sound notifications to make it more friendlier