Yesterday (when I began to write this) Allegiance (a Voice of the Customer – nee Enterprise Feedback Management vendor) announced they were launching their platform to deliver Voice of the Customer functionality via Social Media channels. I saw a demo of SocialVoice last week, and there are some very interesting features.
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I attended the opening Keynote this morning with Paul Greenberg at CRM Evolution 2009. There were some very interesting things that Paul discussed that I want to share with you and elaborate on.
First the summary of what he covered.
Started by ensuring we all understood that the Social Revolution is not new (remember epinions.com? [...]
Value, the final frontier.
That is not just a bad attempt at a pun, it is a reality of what people through times have thought of value. There are many “types” of values: legal, economical, ethical, quantitative, qualitative, and financial value – just to name a few. There are also issues of perceived, realized, and [...]
Twitter is dying.
Here are the symptoms:
Microblogging peaked and began the descent into the trough of disillusionment in Gartner’s 2009 Hype Cycle for emerging technologies Twitter has long suffered unscheduled outages due to architecture, scalability, and now Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. And they lose users each time they are down. Facebook acquired FriendFeed [...]
Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Strategic Measurement Framework Part 3 – Design Part 4 – Validation
If you had not had a chance to read through previous installments, please do so you can [...]
How do you measure the effect of a conversation?
Until now, and still continuing in most contact centers, Customer Service has been measured on the efficiency of its performance: number of calls per hour, times it takes to answer a question, time to answer an email, etc.
Organizations that moved to managing experiences migrated their [...]
Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Strategic Measurement Framework Part 3 – Design
If you had not had a chance to read through previous installments, please do so you can find the proper context.
OK, so far we have [...]
It has been a flurry of activity around these parts with the discussion of what is Social CRM, whether it exists, and what to call it.
First, I read this post from Brent Leary in Inc. Unfortunately, Inc is not very social and comments are not allowed.
So, when someone else Twitted that [...]
A Methodology for Crafting Awesome Experiences – Part 1, Introduction A Methodology for Crafting Awesome Experiences – Part 2, Strategic Measurement Framework
In this installment, we are covering the first of the four stages of the Methodology, Designing the Customer Experience.
Designing [...]


Three Reasons Comment Moderation is Wrong (and one why it works)
Moderating comments is interrupting a conversation.
If you are running an age-appropriate blog and want to ensure that the comments are kept in line with the law, you may have a case.
The idea behind a blog is to spark the imagination of the reader, get them engaged, have them contribute. That the community and [...]