Assigning Metatags to Chat Logs "Another late-night idea: assigning metatags to online conversations, more specific - to chat logs. How many valuable information will be lost, when people chatting online. A good tip for travelling, a valuable URL, anything. Yep, there are client-side solutions to this - a IM logs, URL collectors etc. But I was thinking to do it server-side." [drop.org - community plumbing]

Now there's someone that's thinking ahead. I use AIM to ask Rich quick questions about Oracle and PL/SQL (I'm sure he doesn't think they're "quick"), and I end up just saving the logs as "rich1," rich2," "rich3," etc. I think there was one time when the conversation was contained to one topic so I could name it "portal dynamic pages" or some such thing. But as John Robb has noted, IM sessions need to be integrated into a KM system, and meta tags would certainly help with retrieval from that system.

Question for you: what do you call it when you contact someone via IM? For some reason, it doesn't seem right to me to say I'm "calling" them. I don't feel comfortable using "IM" as a verb, and "chatting" doesn't convey initiating the conversation. Will this take on the language of one of the big players? For example, "xerox" became synonymous with photocopying, so would I "AIM" you to initiate an IM session? What term do you use or would you propose?