Monday, July 25, 2011

How About a Free Web Chat Widget for Microsoft Lync? (no silverlight needed) #lync


Up until now the solutions available to provide chat capability to your website using Lync have been:


http://www.evangelyze.net/smartchat.asp
Cons: Silverlight requirements, cost $1800 per agents seems a bit high if low functionality needed
Pros: Very slick and nice features

http://unified-communications.blogspot.com/2010/09/ocs-webchat-also-works-with-microsoft.html
Notes: Hosted

Now developer Thomas Stock from Orbitone has a produced a free Lync presence and chat widget that will allow your customers to chat to you from your website. I haven't had a chance to test it yet but my first impression is: Someone did a very nice job on this. I glanced at the documentation which looks well laid out and thorough as well. Go check it out!

Blog and Download:
http://www.orbitone.com/en/blog/default.aspx
http://lyncwidget.codeplex.com/

Try it out right now:
http://lyncpresence.orbitone.com/

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