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Top Contact Center Stories of 2019: A Data-Driven ViewTop Contact Center Stories of 2019: A Data-Driven View

Sheila McGee-Smith

January 1, 2020

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Top Contact Center Stories of 2019

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For the past eight years, I have done an annual post for No Jitter on the top contact center stories of the year. Since 2014, the post has taken the form of a slideshow. As I sat down to evaluate what to include in this year’s slideshow, I decided to let data and analytics lead the discussion. I am a frequent tweeter — I posted 1,400+ tweets in 2019, averaging about four per day. Most of these tweets center on the topics I cover as a contact center industry analyst and here on No Jitter. With data from TweetStats, I created the above word cloud of the hashtags I used in my tweets this year. In addition to #contactcenter, #CCaaS, and #EC19, hashtags for vendor and industry events I attended figure prominently. I looked to my tweets, and the responses to them by my almost 13,000 contact center-centric followers to select the top contact center stories of 2019. Using Twitter Analytics, I chose the top tweet for each month. The remaining slides show the tweets, with additional commentary on the news event, conference, or leadership announcement described.

Which contact center-related stories struck a chord among my Twitter followers? Click through this slideshow to find out.

About the Author

Sheila McGee-Smith

Sheila McGee-Smith, who founded McGee-Smith Analytics in 2001, is a leading communications industry analyst and strategic consultant focused on the contact center and enterprise communications markets. She has a proven track record of accomplishment in new product development, competitive assessment, market research, and sales strategies for communications solutions and services.

McGee-Smith Analytics works with companies ranging in size from the Fortune 100 to start-ups, examining the competitive environment for communications products and services. Sheila's expertise includes product assessment, sales force training, and content creation for white papers, eBooks, and webinars. Her professional accomplishments include authoring multi-client market research studies in the areas of contact centers, enterprise telephony, data networking, and the wireless market. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, user group and sales meetings, as well as an oft-quoted authority on news and trends in the communications market.

Sheila has spent 30 years in the communications industry, including 12 years as an industry analyst with The Pelorus Group. Early in her career, she held sales management, market research and product management positions at AT&T, Timeplex, and Dun & Bradstreet. Sheila serves as the Contact Center Track Chair for Enterprise Connect.