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Hyperconnectivity, and Gen Y
Posted Mon 28 July 2008 @ 1:15 p.m. by Ernie
Hyperconnectivity! Its a wonderful word and sums up beautifully the presentation being given at the TUANZ Contact Centre lunches this week.

In one of the most thought provoking and engaging presentations for some time, Darren Leffler of Nortel in Australia told the audience at our bulging Christchurch venue today about the impact of Web 2.0 on the contact centre. The new way Generation Y customer interact in Web 2.0 is a historic inflexion point, he said.

Leffler - a Gen X who got an iPod for his 40th and now feels really young - gave an insightful account of the different mind set of Gen Y coupled with the range of communications channels that make up their world. The old Internet 1.0 had the company in the middle controlling the brand, the messages and the interaction, but in 2.0 the position is radically different, he opined.

His concluding message: embrace the Internet, embrace multiple channels, empower the agents, and establish communities.

This Nortel/Gen-i hosted event is one of the best presentations on generational differences and technology that I've seen for a while. Don't miss it - limited space still available at Wellington, Hamilton and Auckland later this week. Free to TUANZ contact centre members.

 

 

 

 
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Comments (4)

4 Comments

Ernie Newman says:
I've just heard that the Auckland venue has reached capacity - sorry we cannot take any more registrations.
Added: 29 July 2008, 7:43 p.m.

Sarah says:
Presentation now available at the new Contact Centre section on this website: www.tuanz.org.nz/contactcentres
Added: 31 July 2008, 8:22 p.m.

Gideon Clewlow says:
Really interesting presentation, well delivered. Particularly interesting that Nortel are having a conference of 6000 people with no travel involved.
Added: 1 August 2008, 9:31 a.m.

Mick SC says:
How do we convince the City Councillors and their ever so independent and retro-thinking officials that huge convention centres are no longer the way to revitalise a City? As half a dozen big cities in the USA have expensively discovered!
Added: 14 August 2008, 11:36 a.m.

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