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RightNow Connects Customer Social Interactions To Companies Via HiveLive

Posted by Natalie Petouhoff on September 9, 2009

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Natalie L. Petouhoff, Ph.D. By Dr. Natalie Petouhoff

It must be in the air... but seems like there are a bunch of announcments this week. Next up? RightNow Technology's acquisition of HiveLive. So if you were doubting that "social media" is for real or executives in your company are not sure if they should go down this path... I'd say the answer is "YEAH!" and yesterday was not soon enough.


The reality is- whether you realize it or not- your customers are talking about you in the cloud. The "cloud" here means - on blogs, on thirdparty review sites, on Twitter... And you can do the "ostrich" and continue to stick your head in the sand or you can decide to join the revolution. I know I sound a bit fanatical... but the truth is that the concept of what customers think about your company, customer as well as employee feedback is not new. If you remember... We as a nation sent Mr.

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Twitter, Tweet-Up - Where Does One Start When You Want To Get It Right?

Posted by Natalie Petouhoff on September 9, 2009

Natalie L. Petouhoff, Ph.D. By Dr. Natalie Petouhoff

Everyone is A Beginner At the Beginning


So many of you came to the @CRMe09 conference where I spoke about the ROI of Social Media, in particular that derived from customer service. And a funny thing that happened there... Lithium had a booth in the exhibitors area and they had asked me to come and speak to people about my ROI model. So there I was ready to impart my wisdom. A man came up and saw the flyer on the table - it was for the Tweet-up. He picked up the flyer and asked me to tell him about Tweet-up.

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Oracle On Demand Gets Customer Service Knowledge Management with Integration with Inquira

Posted by Natalie Petouhoff on September 8, 2009

Natalie L. Petouhoff, Ph.D. By Dr. Natalie Petouhoff

Knowledge Management and Customer Service


This quarter I've started some research on knowledge management (KM) for the contact center and customer service. This is KM for both agent-assited and self-service. One of the biggest misnomers about customer service is how important great knowledge management is to good experiences. And no, I don't mean Sharepoint. That's a fine product- but for customer service- one needs to find answers and not documents.


Customers often wonder - why, when they do a search on a website or when they ask a customer service agent for help- they wonder why the search results are awful- meaning nothing that got pulled up in the search was even remotely what they needed. And they also wonder why the agents don't have THE answer.

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