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		<title>Instant Messaging Misfires</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some would say that there&#8217;s never been any real etiquette on this unruly and often rude Internet. So, I&#8217;ve put together a list of six tips for acceptable instant messenger behavior that addresses some of my biggest pet peeves. View the original here.]]></description>
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		<title>E-Mail and Instant Messaging Face Compliance Challenges</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the financial workplace, e-mail and instant messaging (IM) are becoming essential enterprise tools. Once the province of teens chatting with their friends, instant messaging is now relied on by brokerage firms and other financial companies to maintain contact with clients. An ever-increasing number of government regulations and industry-specific rules make compliance with secure-messaging criteria [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Instant Messaging Proves Useful in Reducing Workplace Interruption</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employers seeking to decrease interruptions may want to have their workers use instant messaging software, a new study suggests. A recent study by researchers at Ohio State University and University of California, Irvine, found that workers who used instant messaging on the job reported less interruption than colleagues who did not. View the original here.]]></description>
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		<title>Teens Reach Linguistic Peak in Online Chat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOL, OMG and TTYL: parents and teachers worry that teenagers&#8217; use of these and other forms of online shorthand is harming their language skills. Perhaps they will take comfort from a study suggesting that instant messaging (IM) actually represents &#8220;an expansive new linguistic renaissance&#8221;. Sali Tagliamonte and Derek Denis at the University of Toronto, Canada, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Instant Messaging Is Surprisingly Formal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instant messaging (IM) is a relatively new form of communication. . . Although written, the fact that IM is more immediate and direct than e-mail makes it seem more like speech than writing. But a recent study of IM-ing by college students found that the communication was more formal&#8211;in use of vocabulary and abbreviations&#8211;than might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foundations of Instant Messaging</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download this PowerPoint file This 19-slide presentation covers the foundations of instant messaging.]]></description>
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		<title>Instant Messaging Online</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download this PDF file Instant messasing, or &#8220;IM,&#8221; is one of the simplest forms of synchronous online communications available. IM has become firmly entrenched in the lives of the younger generation. As a result, IM usage is expanding into both higher education and the workplace.]]></description>
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		<title>I.M. Generation Is Changing the Way Business Talks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[INSTANT messaging has come of age. No longer the province of chatty teenagers, it is now part and parcel of advanced communications networks at many corporations. And as instant messaging takes hold, companies are benefiting from new productivity gains and improvements in customer response time. &#8220;I almost never get e-mail from my Sun colleagues,&#8221; said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Instant Messaging &#8212; A New Language?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instant messaging &#8212; a new language? OMG! LOL. TTYL. For many adults over the age of 30, the former groupings of letters would seem incoherent, but for a newer generation of technologically-savvy young adults it can say a lot. &#8220;Instant messaging, or IM, is not just bad grammar or a bunch of mistakes,&#8221; says Dr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RU Kidding? Research Finds That Chatspeak Has No Impact On Children&#8217;s Spelling Ability</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will probably comes as a bit of a shock to UR system, but findings from a group of University of Alberta researchers show that language commonly used in instant messaging has no effect on your child&#8217;s spelling abilities. If anything, says study author Connie Varnhagen, using language variations commonly used in instant messaging and [...]]]></description>
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