I'm not exactly a fan of instant online messaging and I don't really encourage nonprofit organizations to be beta testers, but I do take an avid interest in the latest innovations from the Google-industrial complex.    

Therefore, it's worth mentioning that Google has just launched a free telephony and instant messaging service called Google Talk.

Playing with cool free tools is a great hobby, and I'm sure that the early adopters will go wild.  For everyone else in the nonprofit sector, here are my usual words of caution:
Let someone else be the beta tester.

If it's not broken, don't fix it.

(The free technology in question) is free, only if your time is worth nothing.



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