Capturing IM text

[Ari]

We would like to conduct research interviews through Instant Messaging and save the interviews for analysis. Does anyone know how this could be done or if there is a software program that does this? Thanks for any ideas.

[mack]

Hi there.

You could use cheeta chat to save your transcript to a file on your computer.
cheeta is compatable with yahoo massenger.
you can download it for free from

[cheetachat.com...]

[Marcia]

With AOL Instant Messenger you can save the entire conversation to a file, in either HTML or plain text, or copy and paste it.

[chiyo]

yahoo chat latest version also has an option to archive all chats/conferences.

[Ari]

Great, thanks for your help!