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	<title>Comments on: Proactive Support &#8212; Something from the comments</title>
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		<title>By: Rick Klau</title>
		<link>http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2006/10/proactive-support-something-from-the-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-17238</link>
		<dc:creator>Rick Klau</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is one of the reasons I decided to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2006/10/09/added_a_comments_feed.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;promote my comments feed&lt;/a&gt; more explicitly; I added our (FeedBurner) PingShot service so that Technorati, Google, etc. will get notified whenever it&#039;s updated, so that the content in the comments will be more visible...

Personally, I&#039;m also relying on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cocomment.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CoComment&lt;/a&gt; more and more, so that I can see when anyone follows up to posts I care about. (These are normally synonymous with posts I make, but CoComment allows you to also track a conversation without leaving a comment.) It&#039;s a good tool, and has really helped me stay engaged once I start chatting with someone.

--Rick (one of an apparently growing number of ThinkPad-for-life customers)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is one of the reasons I decided to <a href="http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2006/10/09/added_a_comments_feed.php" rel="nofollow">promote my comments feed</a> more explicitly; I added our (FeedBurner) PingShot service so that Technorati, Google, etc. will get notified whenever it&#8217;s updated, so that the content in the comments will be more visible&#8230;</p>
<p>Personally, I&#8217;m also relying on <a href="http://www.cocomment.com/" rel="nofollow">CoComment</a> more and more, so that I can see when anyone follows up to posts I care about. (These are normally synonymous with posts I make, but CoComment allows you to also track a conversation without leaving a comment.) It&#8217;s a good tool, and has really helped me stay engaged once I start chatting with someone.</p>
<p>&#8211;Rick (one of an apparently growing number of ThinkPad-for-life customers)</p>
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		<title>By: site admin</title>
		<link>http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2006/10/proactive-support-something-from-the-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-16888</link>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 22:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nonny, we monitor Thinkpads.com as well, although it doesn&#039;t go through the blog filters  I use for obvious reasons due to lack of RSS. Our CSAT master, Mark Hopkins, is on Thinkpads pretty religiously and we reach out there as well. Please give me details on the TP mailing list, that could be a godsend.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nonny, we monitor Thinkpads.com as well, although it doesn&#8217;t go through the blog filters  I use for obvious reasons due to lack of RSS. Our CSAT master, Mark Hopkins, is on Thinkpads pretty religiously and we reach out there as well. Please give me details on the TP mailing list, that could be a godsend.<br />
dc</p>
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		<title>By: Nonny</title>
		<link>http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2006/10/proactive-support-something-from-the-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-16886</link>
		<dc:creator>Nonny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve been following your blog and the one at Design Matters with interest for a while now.  How, since we&#039;re not a blog, does the concentrated population of TP users in the forum at thinkpads.com and in the TP mailing list fit into your efforts?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been following your blog and the one at Design Matters with interest for a while now.  How, since we&#8217;re not a blog, does the concentrated population of TP users in the forum at thinkpads.com and in the TP mailing list fit into your efforts?</p>
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		<title>By: Esteban</title>
		<link>http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2006/10/proactive-support-something-from-the-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-16882</link>
		<dc:creator>Esteban</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey David. 

There&#039;s no possible way you&#039;ll catch ALL complaints in blogistan or forumland. Search engines might fail, people might not use the words &quot;Lenovo&quot; or &quot;ThinkPad&quot; while referring to a certain problem they had and so on. But may I say you have done a terrific job. For once, the mere fact of having your cell number displayed and asking people to call you (and actually answering, I hope you turn the thing off while sleeping!) talks enormouly about the effort Lenovo is willing to take to please it&#039;s cutomers. 

I have been performing some of the same searches you do and thus found you&#039;ve been there before. But keep in mind you can&#039;t possibly reach every single string about the company out there in the world. 

Which takes me to one of my usual crazed ideas. Why not building up and hosting a hall of shame. Have a public place where people can complaint and show it publicly. Lenovo&#039;s answers should come in &quot;actions&quot; more than comments (I can think of less things more pathetic than trying to indulge ourselves when we do screw up). That way not only will you be sarching for problems but people will have a very public place to rant thus ensuring we will hear. 

Final word: try NOT to go to Dell or Apple ;-)

Regards, 

Esteban</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey David. </p>
<p>There&#8217;s no possible way you&#8217;ll catch ALL complaints in blogistan or forumland. Search engines might fail, people might not use the words &#8220;Lenovo&#8221; or &#8220;ThinkPad&#8221; while referring to a certain problem they had and so on. But may I say you have done a terrific job. For once, the mere fact of having your cell number displayed and asking people to call you (and actually answering, I hope you turn the thing off while sleeping!) talks enormouly about the effort Lenovo is willing to take to please it&#8217;s cutomers. </p>
<p>I have been performing some of the same searches you do and thus found you&#8217;ve been there before. But keep in mind you can&#8217;t possibly reach every single string about the company out there in the world. </p>
<p>Which takes me to one of my usual crazed ideas. Why not building up and hosting a hall of shame. Have a public place where people can complaint and show it publicly. Lenovo&#8217;s answers should come in &#8220;actions&#8221; more than comments (I can think of less things more pathetic than trying to indulge ourselves when we do screw up). That way not only will you be sarching for problems but people will have a very public place to rant thus ensuring we will hear. </p>
<p>Final word: try NOT to go to Dell or Apple <img src='http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Regards, </p>
<p>Esteban</p>
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		<title>By: Juan deFuca</title>
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		<dc:creator>Juan deFuca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 15:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>be very arraid that you&#039;re going to get stalked by head hunters looking for a Veep of Customer Service at Dell, Toshiba or Apple. Be Very Afraid of the sweet smelling carrots. there ain&#039;t decent fish in Round Rock and upper newport Bay freaking catches fire. An the clams from Newport are uniformly fatal if eaten.
You&#039;re doing well, David.  The truck i wrote about last night in my email to you is still at the bottom of a ravine in Rescue being charged to its renter at the daily rate  by the rental company.

jim</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>be very arraid that you&#8217;re going to get stalked by head hunters looking for a Veep of Customer Service at Dell, Toshiba or Apple. Be Very Afraid of the sweet smelling carrots. there ain&#8217;t decent fish in Round Rock and upper newport Bay freaking catches fire. An the clams from Newport are uniformly fatal if eaten.<br />
You&#8217;re doing well, David.  The truck i wrote about last night in my email to you is still at the bottom of a ravine in Rescue being charged to its renter at the daily rate  by the rental company.</p>
<p>jim</p>
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