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HP's Social Support Summit

by HP_Laura_Lee_B March

If you’ve ever visited one of our Consumer Support Forums, available in seven languages, to get a technical question answered about your HP product, you know how valuable that advice can be when you’re trying to get things done. Well, your experience will get even better after our global 2013 HP Social Support Summit, which kicks off in Orlando, Florida March 20th and goes through March 22nd. To find out more about what happens there -- and how you might get invited next year -- keep reading.

 

HP Experts 2012 Summit.jpgWe talked about how you can become a volunteer contributor/HP Expert on the Forums in a recent Next Bench post. The HP Social Support Summit is the annual event that brings together our volunteer Experts from all around the globe to learn best practices for helping you solve technical issues on the Forums.

 

More than 150 customer and employee HP Experts and influencers in social customer support will be at the Summit. It’s a virtual melting pot of support rock stars from across the globe – and all of them are dedicated to giving you stellar customer support.

 

Great support – now and for the future

Not only will HP Experts have the opportunity to participate in product and support breakout sessions, but we’ll also showcase the best in support technology and strategies – giving our Experts a chance to connect and learn from each other, so that we can better support our customers.

 

For example, we just participated in a panel at Austin’s South By Southwest Interactive Festival about how augmented reality is playing a pivotal role for a better social support experience (check out the Next Bench post for more info). That’s some cool stuff by any geek standards, and it’s the kind of technology that we’re exploring to give our customers the best support experience possible.

 

Summit participants will have the chance to expand their support knowledge and troubleshooting skills to give you even better technical advice on your HP computing and printing products. We’re also listening to and talking directly with our customers who use HP products every day to get their feedback – feedback that will help us give you better support on the Forums, and help you get the most out of your HP products.

 

Teamwork & kudos!

This year’s Summit in Orlando is also about working as a team to help others. For example, Pat Williams, senior vice president of the Orlando Magic NBA team, will be speaking about how, together, we can achieve peak performance for our customers – as well as the qualities of winning teams.

 

Finally, HP’s Global Digital Support Social Media team will recognize achievements in social support (think lots of kudos!) from our HP employee and customer volunteer HP Experts. We’ve helped more than 40 million customers around the globe since the Forums launched in 2009 (now that is a lot of kudos!), and we’re not done yet! This is just one way we recognize those efforts.

 

The bottom line is that – with the help of our HP Experts – we are leading the way to solve customer issues quickly and effectively – whenever and wherever our customers need support. This week’s Summit activities are helping to grow a world-class social support community that cares and has a strong desire to help others who have questions about their HP products.

 

Want to know more? Stay tuned for any post-Summit news and information here on the Next Bench. Want to attend next year’s Summit? Here’s how to get involved as an HP Expert


 

Comments
by jbarragan158 March

horrible customer service from HP!!!!! omg... i cant believe for an hour i got re-routed 8 times. i have a total of 7 numbers. the last number re-routed me to the first number i started with. all i wanted was simple information about quadro 5000 graphics card. hp site has 2 descriptions: 1) bd nvidia quadro 5000....... 2) pca nvidia quadro 5000 ...... i just wanted to know what hp uses the acronyms bd and pca for. No one helped me, i asked to speak with a supervisor and the refused. I asked for the agents name and id number. the refused. all i got was the name "priya". i talked to customer service, tech support, hp parts, spare parts,service dept, some home workstation dept. i cant believe HP is still in business. I cant wait to see HP go down like best buys. Remember when customers arent taken care off the go elsewhere..... A lot of frustration trying to give you my money!!

by flavmartins March

@jbarragan158. I'm not an HP customer or employee, but I have interacted with many. I think that you may have hit a snag that happens in the call center. From experience, I would point you to HP's Expert Forum where there are fantastic experts willing to help any customer regarding common issues that they have. This way you avoid having to try and find the right department and get quality expert service from volunteer experts.

 

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/

by HP_Laura_Lee_B April

@flavmartins ... thank you for chiming in here and appropriately pointing out the additional resource of the HP Consumer Support Forum: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Welcome-to-the-Forum/ct-p/about

 

@jbarragan158 ... I'm very sorry you have had a negative experience. I've made sure our Call Center organization has received your feedback.

 

 

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