WebVisions Recap on Twitter, 2009

Here’s the link to all the WebVisions chatter on Twitter, using just the #wv09 tag. I’ve been going through and reading it to see what people were commenting on — an excellent reminder about how a hashtag can unify and aggregate people’s experiences at an event. And it makes great notes to crib from later…

My Two Favorite Slides from WebVisions

1. First day, @bikehugger‘s slide about how to be interesting online: “Do Epic Shit.”
2. Each one of @erictpeterson‘s slides had his twitter handle and the (wrong) hash tag in the footer. Super convenient.

I’ll keep reading the #wv09 hashtag comments and see what other interesting tidbits I can pull out. I know @texagonian (Kevin Platt) had some good comments and nuggets, as well as at least one laugh-out-loud putdown. As you might expect if you know him.

Ambient Awareness, Social Media and Customer Service

I really can’t stop thinking about pushing clients into this idea of having proactive customer support by using the ambient awareness provided by social media. (No one’s biting, of course, because clients’ purse strings have been double-knotted.) More below about how you can use Microsoft Dynamics CRM to create ambient awareness for all your customers.

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Qwest Launches Social Media for Customer Service

Qwest began using social media for customer service recently, according to the Phoenix Business Journal. It’s remarkably nimble for a large, bureaucracy-laden, unionized labor force. I mean that as a positive — clearly, this is their social media prototype. They have not rolled social media out to their entire customer service group, but rather have just seven people tweeting.

Visit Qwest at http://socialmedia.qwest.com

Start Social Media Small, and Learn from It

For a large company like Qwest, starting with a small dedicated group with a motto of “Be Smart” will allow them to find what works and what doesn’t.

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Use Social Media for Customer Service

Twitter and Customer Service

Sometimes, I gotta write a blog post for the job. So today the focus was on how smart companies are using social media for customer service. I’d met with Martha Brooke from Interaction Metrics in the morning, and she dropped an interesting point: Her company helps businesses get the most out of their customer interactions, and social media is just another venue for those interactions. “Yes,” I thought. “Someone else who gets it.”

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Social Media Case Studies and Statistics

Social Media and Customer Service Statistics:

• http://www.coneinc.com/content1182
• http://www.churchofthecustomer.com/blog/2008/09/social-media-as.html

September, 2008: Sixty percent of Americans use social media, and of those, 59 percent interact with companies on social media Web sites. One in four interacts more than once per week. These are among the findings of the 2008 Cone Business in Social Media Study.

Social Media and Customer Service Case Study: HP

• http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/39468

As HP’s experience shows, social media is changing the way we must think about customer service. The cost of poor service, once measured in single consumers, can now have an immediate impact far and wide.

Social Media Implications on Operations, PR, Marketing, HR, Customer Relations

• http://www.experiencetheblog.com/2008/05/social-media-disasters-or-how-not.html

Just like that point in time in the Internet’s infancy, social media has not yet been understood or embraced by most organizations and brands. Even if the ROI is hard to calculate today, it would be wise to consider the harm done by NOT having an organized approach to social media.

Social Media Case Studies

• http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/05/02/a-chonology-of-brands-that-got-punkd-by-social-media/

A list of companies that were blind-sided by the internet, they didn’t understand the impacts of the power shift to the participants, or how fast information would spread, or were just plain ignorant.