Chapter 1, At the Starting Line: Know Your Sametime Client talks about the different types of Sametime clients and why Sametime instant messaging is a good choice for you and your organization.

Chapter 2, Getting Connected: Configuring and Using Sametime for Lotus Notes is a chapter where you'll learn about the Embedded Sametime client within Lotus Notes. Included is what you'll need to know about logging into Sametime, configuring the client for your particular style of work, and how to begin chatting with others in your Sametime community.

Chapter 3, Getting Connected: Configuring and Using Sametime Connect covers the installation of Sametime Connect client onto your Windows, Mac, or Linux operating system with step-by-step instructions. Learn about configuring the client for your particular style of work, and how to install Sametime plug-ins to customize your Sametime Connect client.

Chapter 4, Managing Your Connections: Making the most of your Sametime Contacts is a chapter where you'll learn how to create and organize your Sametime contact list. Find out how you can create chats with three or more people and manage your presence awareness to let people know your current status.

Chapter 5, Power Chatting: Making the most of Sametime Instant Messaging is a chapter where you'll start using advanced chat features such as rich text, attachments, emoticons, graphics, and screen captures, as well as adding voice and video into your chats.

Chapter 6, Spread the Word: Connecting to other Messaging Communities is a chapter where you'll learn how to connect to both local and external Sametime communities. Discover how you can connect with external third-party messaging providers like Yahoo, AOL, and Google. You also learn the difference between Domino and LDAP authentication.

Chapter 7, iNotes and Sametime—Chatting from the Web speaks about using Sametime from within the Lotus iNotes browser client. Discover how easy it is to chat with your contacts, add new contacts, and manage your presence awareness.

Chapter 8, Going Mobile—Installing and Using the Sametime Mobile Client helps you determine the type of mobile Sametime client you need and how to install Sametime on your mobile device. Become skilled at configuring Sametime Mobile, managing your contacts, and chatting with other Sametime users using your mobile device.

Chapter 9, Meeting Basics—Using Sametime to Create Virtual Meeting Spaces introduces you to Sametime Meeting Center, learning how to login, schedule and attend meetings, and save meetings for later playback. Find out how to add slides and files to the meeting, conduct instant polls, and have group chats while in the main meeting.

Chapter 10, Meeting Beyond the Conference Room—Using Additional Sametime Meeting Features shows you how to use Sametime Meeting Center to share your screen with others as well as collaborate on documents using the whiteboard feature. Add video and voice features to your meeting as well as optimize your settings to get the best performance possible.

Chapter 11, Take Your Instant Messaging to the Next level—Sametime Advanced will teach us to use Sametime Advanced to go beyond the core features of Sametime and become skilled at using its features like broadcast communities, persistent chats, skill taps, instant polls, and Announcements.

Chapter 12, Speak Up—Taking Advantage of Sametime Unified Telephony is a chapter where you'll find out how Sametime Unified Telephony can be used in your company or organization from the Sametime client to route calls to various devices, make and answer calls online, and schedule conference calls instantly.

Appendix A, Sametime 8.5 and 8.5.1 New Features talks about the new features of Sametime that will be available in versions 8.5 and 8.5.1, such as the browser-based chat client and the Apple iPhone Sametime client.

Appendix B, Using Sametime in Chat-Enabled Applications shows how Sametime integrates chat features into other applications such as Lotus Notes, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Connections, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft SharePoint.

Appendix C, Additional Sametime Resources lists a variety of different resources you can use to go beyond the scope of this book to discover even more about Sametime and its various features and benefits.