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Book SynopsisHow do organizations manage social media effectively?
Every organization wants to implement social media, but it is difficult to create processes and mange employees to make this happen. Most social media books focus on strategies for communicating with customers, but they fail to address the internal process that takes place within a business before those strategies can be implemented. This book is geared toward helping you manage every step of the process required to use social media for business.
The Social Media Management Handbook provides a complete toolbox for defining and practicing a coherent social media strategy. It is a comprehensive resource for bringing together such disparate areas as IT, customer service, sales, communications, and more to meet social media goals. Wollan and Smith and their Accenture team explain policies, procedures, roles and responsibilities, metrics, strategies, incentives, and legal issues that may arise. You will le
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Well worth a read if you are thinking of going down the social media road . (HR Magazine, June 2011). provides a complete toolbox for defining and practicing a coherent social-media strategy. (EFMA Journal, June 2011). A breezy read, the compelling discussion by the authors makes a solid case for corporations to revamp their views and policies on social media Human Resources
Table of Contents
Introduction: What is Social Media? ix
I Social Media Strategy for Organizations 1
1 The Power and Business Risks of Social Media 3
Nick Smith and Robert Wollan
2 How to Develop a Social Media Strategy 16
Chris Boudreaux
3 Social Media ROI: New Metrics for Customer Health 36
Kevin Quiring
4 Selling Social Media within the Organization 54
Robert Wollan
II Marketing and Sales in Social Media 65
5 Social Media and the Voice of the Customer 67
Chris Zinner and Catherine Zhou
6 Integrating Social CRM Insights into the Customer Analytics Function 91
Rayid Ghani and Sarah Bentley
7 Using Social Media to Drive Product Development and Find New Services to Sell 104
Adi Alon and A.J. Gupta
8 Social Community Marketing and Selling 120
Robert Wollan and Andr_e Trochymiuk
III Customer Service and Support with Social Media 139
9 Using Social Media in Customer Service and Support 141
Stephanie Sadowski
10 Social Media: Responding to Customer Complaints 160
Todd R. Wagner
11 Staying Out of Trouble: Complying with FTC Disclosures 175
Chris Boudreaux
IV Beyond the ‘‘Pilot’’ Phase: The Core Components of the Agile Digital Enterprise 187
12 Creating and Implementing a Social Media Technology Platform 189
Anatoly Roytman and Joseph Hughes
13 Social CRM on the Move: Mobility Implications for Social Media Programs 209
Greg Jenko, Lars Kamp, and Saj Usman
14 New Rules for Tools: IT Infrastructure Implications and Options for Supporting Enterprise Social Media 220
Robert Wollan and Kelly Dempski
V Empowering Employees for Social Media Success 231
15 Culture Traits, Employee Incentives, and Training 233
Christine Eberle
16 New Roles and Responsibilities 250
Chris Zinner and Vanessa Godshalk
17 Social Media Policies 274
Chris Boudreaux
18 Social Media, Collaboration, and Value Creation in Organizations 286
Robert J. Thomas
Appendix 1 299
Appendix 2 301
Notes 307
Index 315
