Communication and Awareness
BSCW users who want to get in touch with one another via
real-time communication (computer conferencing, instant messaging) may
enter their personal communication details into their personal profile.
BSCW supports contacting a user based on these data either from the personal
info page of this user or via the 
action offered in the action menu of the user’s entry.
BSCW offers two awareness tools for finding out which users may be available online:
• online status display – indicating the “BSCW presence” of members of a shared workspace;
• user view of JMonitor – monitoring the activity of users listed in your address book.
To be kept informed about the events in your workspaces in a more online fashion than provided by daily activity reports, BSCW offers two possibilities:
• event view of JMonitor – displaying recent events in your workspaces;
• RSS news feeds on BSCW events – containing recent events in your workspaces in RSS 2.0 format (to be read using specific news aggregators or the RSS features of current browsers).
Messaging services