Alright, back in the day, I hosted a site for media. Gaming, movies, etc. (Yeah, this was before I realized how awesome catfishing was). We had forums, we had news, kinda set up like this. It was on VBulletin, but we used a different CMS.
Anyways, it got to the point where someone there had recommended that we implement a system some how, that would alphabetically list members user-names on the forum, and then next to everyone's names list their AIM contact info with a button (the little AIM walking guy) or their MSN Hotmail account or something.
We implied it and everyone used it. Great success. I'd like to see that here, so that if you're looking for a quick convo. with someone on the forums, it'd be easily accessible. That site is ClanHalo.net and the URL where you can see the system is...
http://pc.clanhalo.net/index.php?page=aim
I found one site on the net that has it, just to give you reference of what I'm talking about. However, the difference, admin, is that they are using PhpBB.
Mmm, well, yeah, just putting an idea out there.
Zach.