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Running an Effective Help Desk

by Barbara Czegel
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Overview

The definitive guide to setting up and running a successful Help Desk-now updated and expanded to include the latest Web-based technologies.

This book is for you if you are:
* A business manager charged with researching, planning, and setting up a Help Desk in your organization
* An IT manager who wants to improve the level of technical support and communication within your organization with the latest support technologies
* A Help Desk manager looking for guidance on how to upgrade traditional Help Desk functions with Internet- or intranet-related processes.

The thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded Second Edition of the critically acclaimed, first-ever guide to running an effective Help Desk, this book tells you everything you need to know to plan, budget, staff, implement, track, upgrade, and even outsource your organization's Help Desk. Drawing upon her extensive experience as a leading North American expert on Help Desk planning and management, author Barbara Czegel:
* Guides you step-by-step through every phase of setting up traditional and Web-related Help Desks for the Internet and an intranet
* Provides a wealth of practical advice on all technical, management, and human-factor aspects of running an effective Help Desk
* Supplies ready-to-use templates in both Word and HTML formats for an array of Help Desk projects.

On the companion website you'll find:
* Real-life Web-based Help Desk examples
* All the templates from the book in HTML and Word formats.

About the Author, Barbara Czegel

Barbara Czegel is President of SIRIUS3, a consulting company that provides Help Desk training and seminars across Canada. She is also a member of the Help Desk Institute and the Support Services Association.

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Czegel covers all aspects of help-desk design and implementation: staffing, training, evaluation, problem resolution, tracking, marketing, and outsourcing. She covers traditional help desks with telephones and the new help desk on the Internet. Aimed at business managers and information technology departments supporting commercial products, this book will work for general circulating collections that support businesspeople as well as corporate collections. There is also a close fit between the business help desk and the public library reference desk that is providing service for walk-up patrons, voice and FAX phone access, and information via E-mail and the web; as such, this may be useful for libraries considering expanding reference access.

Book Details

Published
April 8, 1998
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pages
464
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780471248163

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