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Top Contact Center Stories of 2020Top Contact Center Stories of 2020

Sheila McGee-Smith

January 4, 2021

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As I did in 2019, I looked to my top tweets of the past year to help guide my selection of the top contact stories of 2020. I am a frequent tweeter, but like so many things, the number of tweets I posted in 2020 was down — by about 35% — compared to 2019. While the live events that often had sparked hours of live-tweeting ground to a halt in February 2020, contact center and customer experience news did not. As I did last year, I have decided to let my tweets, and the responses to them by my 13,200 contact center-centric followers, guide the selection of this year’s top contact center stories. Using Twitter Analytics, I chose a top tweet for each month. The remaining slides show the tweets, with updates on the news event, conference, or leadership announcement described in each.

A month-by-month look at my top takes on the contact center industry

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.