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Disaster Recovery
Preparing the Contact Center for Emergencies
Tuesday May 3rd 2011 10am
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Every member of a contact center’s leadership team should ensure that each subordinate leader and each employee has an understanding of their individual roles when an emergency plan is activated. In this article we’ll explore some the characteristics of emergencies and how leaders can prepare their employees.
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Bad Things Happen to Good Companies
Thursday June 23rd 2011 12pm
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Becoming the go-to contact for catastrophe prevention and recovery... An airliner skids off the runway—how can the passengers’ friends and family know if they were safely evacuated? A software manufacturer releases a new version of a product, only to discover a serious problem that caused personal information to be available to hackers and online scam artists. A popular children’s toy was made with lead paint, and consumers need to be warned and the product recalled as soon as possible.
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Weather the Storm: Cloud-Based Call Center Solutions Make Disaster Recovery Fast, Easy and Cost-Effective
Wednesday June 29th 2011 12am
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Disaster recovery is on everyone’s minds these days, especially in the wake of the recent spate of tornadoes and flooding in the Southeast and the harsh winter of 2010-2011.
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Colorado Fires, Social Media, and the Contact Center…
Tuesday July 3rd 2012 9am
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A few observations of how Social Media and the Contact Center were utilized in the Colorado Springs Wild Fire...
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Essential Readings in Disaster Planning & Disaster Behavior
Thursday October 28th 2010 6am
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While the majority of Diaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning is managed at a different part of most organizations, having an understanding of the DR/BCP process and deliverables is a good idea for contact center managers. Equally important is an understanding of human behavior during a crisis or disaster.
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Language Services Associates
Thursday August 26th 2010 10am
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Preparing for an H1N1 pandemic: LSA rolls out a comprehensive plan to protect its staff and ensure continuous service for customers.
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COMMONSENSE DISASTER PREPARATION for the Contact Center
Wednesday November 17th 2010 11am
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Disaster recovery and business continuity planners think morbid thoughts so you don’t have to; you should listen to them!
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Hey, Which Way is the Door?
Tuesday October 19th 2010 10am
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The number of things that could go wrong in a contact center are legion, but the responses to the possible causes of a disruption mostly revolve around some commonsense and widely accepted disaster planning initiatives. The hard part for many contact center leaders is to first, accept that they could happen and, second, prepare accordingly.
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VoIP-Enabled Contact Center Continuity
Tuesday August 24th 2010 10am
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VoIP has opened the door to a world of possibilities for affordable, effective disaster recovery solutions.
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Keeping the Center Up and Running
Monday August 23rd 2010 2pm
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Is your operation prepared for the unexpected? Effective planning will help your center to weather the storm and stay on target.
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