WorkoutABC.com is pleased to offer two web-based chat platforms for your use, Tribune and Mibbit. Feel free to join a conversation, or start one of your own! I am always available when working on the website -- which is to say, whenever I'm not training clients! But to best reach me, you should use the Contact Form.

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Tribune for Drupal comes courtesy of Mssr. SeeSchloβ, and is an advanced discussion space that offers an unique way of managing your conversations: a time-stamp, called a "clock," precedes each message, and can be used as a reference point for responses to it, so that it is clear what is being responded to. This is useful when there are many people talking, or even when there are only two people, but different topics are being discussed simultaneously. Try it and see how clear your web-chat experience becomes! Simply click on the clock of the message to which you mean to respond, and your response will automatically point to it, making for effortless real-time chat at last! No more scrolling through lines of dialogue to track down the genesis of the thread of the conversation; simply point your mouse over the clock of a message to see its antecedents and descendants. Tribune also offers the advantage of intelligent loading, and only new messages are fetched, instead of refreshing the whole page, which mostly consists of old messages. This reduces server load, proving a real benefit when there is a full house! Finally, in addition to the standard smileys, French totoz emoticons are also supported, providing a very rich range of visual expression to accentuate your thoughts.

Everyone's favorite features of traditional IRC conversations are offered by Mibbit, with its familiar interface and functions, including WhoIs, PM, and skins, plus the ability to create your own channels and invite as many people as you wish! Unlike Java-powered chat applets, however, it is quick-loading and won't freeze your computer for a whole minute while configuring itself for use or go on to hog system resources and slow down your browser. You can chat right away, in around three seconds! And Mibbit works with Google to offer near-instant machine-translation in over three dozen languages -- perfect for practicing your typing and your French! ;-)