Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-30 Thread Andy Davidson
On 27 Apr 2009, at 04:24, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: If your email and phone communications are down due to a connectivity break, and your customers get connectivity from you [assume no backup links, by default .. you'd be surprised at how many smaller customers get by with a single link and

Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-27 Thread William McCall
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Mike Lewinski wrote: > > But useless if the customer's data connection is down and their local cell > phones are the only remaining method of communication. > > If 25% of our users would check their twitter feed first and let their boss > know "They are aware of

Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Lewinski
William McCall wrote: I should have clarified. Third party physical control isn't necessarily the issue, but third party administration and delivery (in the context of twitter) is. Dedicated servers are cheap and you can maintain control of the content. But useless if the customer's data conn

Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-27 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Mike Lewinski wrote: > Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > If your email and phone communications are down due to a connectivity >> break, and your customers get connectivity from you [assume no backup >> links, by default .. you'd be surprised at how many smaller

Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Lewinski
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: If your email and phone communications are down due to a connectivity break, and your customers get connectivity from you [assume no backup links, by default .. you'd be surprised at how many smaller customers get by with a single link and no backups at all. If the

Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-27 Thread JoeSox
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:13 PM, wrote: > Twitter URL is an rss feed as well. That should work then, and a reasonable solution for not having to sign up for a third party service. -- Later, Joe

OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-26 Thread William McCall
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:18 PM, JC Dill wrote: > How else do you propose getting outage information to your customers? > I should have clarified. Third party physical control isn't necessarily the issue, but third party administration and delivery (in the context of twitter) is. Dedicated ser

Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-26 Thread JC Dill
William McCall wrote: I could see someone complaining about the idea of letting a third party carry outage info like that... at least in my environment. How else do you propose getting outage information to your customers? If the information provider is under your control (not a 3rd party), th

Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-26 Thread William McCall
w how you've been affected. A lot of places still work with an MO of secrecy. The service I support is one of them. From a technical perspective, the idea is solid though. --WJM IV > > --Original Message-- > From: JoeSox > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: OOB customer co

Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
If your email and phone communications are down due to a connectivity break, and your customers get connectivity from you [assume no backup links, by default .. you'd be surprised at how many smaller customers get by with a single link and no backups at all. If their connectivity is down too - the

Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-26 Thread Charles
Twitter URL is an rss feed as well. --Original Message-- From: JoeSox To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax) Sent: Apr 26, 2009 8:08 PM On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Mike Lewinski wrote: > We're experiment

Re: OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-26 Thread JoeSox
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Mike Lewinski wrote: > We're experimenting with Twitter as a means to communicate anytime there are > system-wide outages (in addition to regular maintenance notifications). > Adoption is slow but I foresee growth once we really get the word out. > Twitter over RS

OOB customer communications (Re: Looking for Support Contact at Equifax)

2009-04-26 Thread Mike Lewinski
We're experimenting with Twitter as a means to communicate anytime there are system-wide outages (in addition to regular maintenance notifications). Adoption is slow but I foresee growth once we really get the word out. Being a data and VoIP provider, certain events can effect both email and