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Daily Mail article on social media critical of companies that actively seek consumer feedback

It must be a slow news week, because a recent Daily Mail article by Jason Lewis titled How ‘BT Sarah’ spies on your Facebook account: secret new software allows BT and other firms to trawl internet looking for disgruntled customers seems to suggest that companies that are actively seeking our customer feedback on public websites [...]

Mind the Social Media Gap

This article first appeared in the PointZero magazine, issue 2 October 2009. It is often said that marketing helps consumers decide which product they should buy, and the customer service and operations department of any company is where this work can come undone in a flash. As rightly identified by Dave Evans in a recent [...]

Why call centres need to embrace twitter & IM for customer suppport

Like many people in the UK, from time to time I have to call a support line for an internet or mobile / service provider about some sort of problem. I am sure I am not alone at dreading the thought of making this call – being put on hold, having to push 1, 2 etc [...]

Listen, Learn, Engage and Integrate – 4 rules for brands using social media Part 1

I have been fairly quiet on the blogging front of late (inversely more active on twitter), but in between posts I have been spending a lot of time talking to large, well known companies about their social media strategy.  Like many in the mainstream press, I keep reading that social media / Twitter / Facebook [...]