Company chat rooms. Then if you have to concentrate you can leave the discussion alone and catch up on it later. Also, when you are out of house, you can still

Company chat rooms. Then if you have to concentrate you can leave the discussion alone and catch up on it later. Also, when you are out of house, you can still follow along on the discussion "at home". Github seems to do that, here are their chat bot: http://hubot.github.com/ http://hubot.github.com/ but it is also a lot of fun to write your own bot with specific functionality for your company. We have had (and still have) a great experience with a chat room for group of ~20 students at our university, even though we are often located in the same room right next to each other.