When you create an individual activity or QuickStatus button you also create Availability Guidance, which is shown in green on the Console, and Non-availability guidance, which is shown in pink on the Console.
You then add the preferred contact methods for both the Availability and Non-availability Guidance.
Here are a just a few benefits of doing this:
Separating work and leisure: On a rest day you can say to friends and family that you are available, while telling work colleagues that you are not available.
Providing different contact methods to different Member Groups: trymehere helps you separate work and leisure as you can provide your personal mobile number, your personal IM alias or personal VoIP alias only to your friends and family, while providing your business contact methods only to your work colleagues.
Non-availability Contact Methods: When do not wish to be available, you can provide any number of alternative contacts that your Member Community could contact in your absence e.g. a personal assistant, a job sharer or a work colleague for example. You could also provide guidance about when you will become available.
Working for multiple organisations: You can be available to a group of colleagues working for one organisation, while being unavailable to another group of colleagues working for another company.
Always available or not available to your boss: You can define a Member Group that consists of one Member; your boss. Thus you can decide whether you wish to be available to your boss when you are not available to your work colleagues or vice versa!