Radian6 Monitoring and Engagement Playbook
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The Radian6 Monitoring and Engagement Playbook provides guidelines for effective online engagement strategies within organizations, specifically using Radian6 tools. It outlines objectives like tracking social media conversations, managing crises, and reporting metrics related to brand engagement. The playbook emphasizes customizing engagement strategies based on specific organizational goals while offering insights into workflows, post assignments, and what types of interactions to engage with or avoid.
Radian6 Monitoring and Engagement Playbook
- 2. Table of Contents Slide Introduction 3-6 Objectives 7 Topic Profile Setting and Details 8 Workflow 9 -16 Macros in Engagement Console 17 Escalation 18 Posts Assignment 19 - 21 Engagement 22 - 30 Reporting 31 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 2
- 3. Intro: Social Media, the Radian6 Way The soul of engagement is quite simple: Connect with people to build relationships that are mutually beneficial and emotionally fulfilling. That’s not a hard concept to grasp; in fact, it’s in our very nature to do this, as social beings. But when you put engagement in the context of the social web, then tack business use onto the end, quite a few questions and concerns pop up that can make the thought of engagement on a company-wide – or even department-wide – scale overwhelming at best. In today’s world, though, online engagement can’t be ignored or brushed under the rug. It needs to be welcomed with open arms, but not without caution – it’s okay to put a microscope to engagement. In fact, it’s necessary. Engagement is very much a personal thing, and that means personal to your organization, too. 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 3
- 4. Intro: Social Media, the Radian6 Way In the business world, making sense of online engagement needs to include discussions around employee engagement policies and guidelines, the establishing of process around engagement that make it scalable throughout your organization, and, most importantly, and the framing up of what engagement actually means in the context of your business. This playbook is part of our own engagement strategy and is tailored specifically to Radian6 internal processes that include the use of our dashboard and Engagement Console. We wanted to share this with you to a.) get you thinking about how your own engagement process might come together, and b.) help you understand the real nuances of company engagement on a very granular level. 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 4
- 5. Intro: Social Media, the Radian6 Way Before we let you dig in, though, it’s important we lay out some additional context and caveats for this playbook: • As stated above, our internal process, and thus our playbook, leans heavily on the use of our own tools, and is tailored to make sure we’re meeting our own goals and objectives for social media engagement. Your goals and monitoring tools might differ, and that needs to be taken into consideration when planning your own engagement strategy. To that end, take this playbook as an example and inspiration for your own plans. We’ll be generalizing some of the playbook content on our blog throughout the next month, to offer up a different, perhaps easier perspective for our community to think on. 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 5
- 6. Intro: Social Media, the Radian6 Way • A good chunk of our monitoring strategy is focused on Twitter, because of the real-time, fast-paced nature of the platform. We do, however, have processes for fielding, assessing, and responding to blog and forum posts and other media types, and we’ll be sharing those processes with you on our blog, as well. Do keep these couple things in mind as you move through this playbook, and please make sure you reach out to us with any questions or comments, either on our upcoming blog posts or by emailing us at community@radian6.com. So, without further ado – take a look and see how we manage our engagement. 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 6
- 7. Objectives Alert your company of issues as they occur, with sufficient detail to quickly identify how to respond. Understand the amount and nature of conversation surrounding your company in the digital communications space. Report and track metrics over time to measure the impact of your company’s reputation and engagement in social media. Understand the Competitive Landscape 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 7
- 8. Topic Profile Settings and Details In your topic profile configuration screen, select the languages you want to monitor and all media types to cover as much feedback as possible. Topic Profile name Purpose Your TP Name To track online mentions of your company with associated spellings Your Company Alerts To track online mentions of keywords you want to be alerted about regularly. Competitive Reporting To track online mentions of competitors with associated spellings. 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 8
- 9. Workflow Your company will monitor online conversations surrounding your brand to determine if engagement/response is required. On topic post is found Operator reviews the content to answer the following questions: • What product are they discussing? • What is the theme of the conversation? • Can they be added to our CRM system as a contact/lead? • What is the source, and is it considered influential? • What is the general sentiment/tone? 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 9
- 10. Workflow Engagement Stage Options • New Content Not reviewed – Default when an on topic post is found • Reviewed, Determining Best Response – Qualified post, assigned to appropriate employee for possible response • Recommend Follow up – To be managed by assignee • Commented, Awaiting Reply – To be managed by assignee • Commented Closed -- To be managed by assignee • Referred – To be managed by assignee • Resolved, no further action required – To be managed by assignee • Reviewed, Closed, no response needed – To be managed by assignee 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 10
- 11. Workflow Priority Options Rating Definition No Priority Specified Standard on-topic post, default setting Low Interesting blog/forum post, general comments Medium On-topic post about competitor’s business/complaints/ compliments High Potentially damaging, crisis 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 11
- 12. Workflow Classifications – Assignee to code appropriately Classifications are selected by assignee/traffic coordinator to track the nature of online conversations Classification Definition Product Review Product feedback/review, including RT’s Gen. Product/ Passing mention Company Industry Discussion Industry conversations, including competitive references Company Events Conferences & webinars MORE ON NEXT PAGE 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 12
- 13. Workflow Classifications – Assignee to code appropriately PART 2 Classification Definition Product Review Product feedback/review, including RT’s Gen. Product/ Passing mention Company Industry Discussion Industry conversations, including competitive references Company Outreach Mentions by an employee/partner Support/ Existing customer support/troubleshooting inquiry Troubleshooting Recommendation/Ref Positive reference to using your product or service Sales Lead Possible/potential lead Partner/Reseller Mention by a partner/resellers customer 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 13
- 14. Workflow Notes & Tags – What are they? Type Definition Notes To enter interactions with the customer/contact Post Tags Used to provide a summary of the content Source Tag Used in Radian6 to track a source when discussing on topic content 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 14
- 15. Workflow Post Tag Examples Post Tags Definition #brandbowl2010 To track online company events blogwell2010 To track conferences and events solvisconsulting To be used to track a mention regarding a partner/ (partner/resellers name) reseller ** All post tags should follow the lower case format ** Any new conferences/events should follow the format of <eventnameyear>, i.e. blogwell2010 ** Any new online (twitter) or interactive events will begin with a # , i.e. #mtv2009 #brandbowl2010 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 15
- 16. Workflow Source Tags Examples Source Tags References / Definitions companyemployee To identify an employee or employee of a partner/reseller businessline1customer To identify a customer of one individual line of your business businessline2customer To identify a customer of a different business line saleslead Possible customer in communication with Sales prospect To identify a new contact you’ve never talked to before Influential Twitter Names To identify a person as an influencer (i.e. @chrisbrogan) twitteraccountname To identify tweets from your company’s Twitter account 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 16
- 17. Macros in the Engagement Console Macro Name Settings Company Content Engagement Level: Reviewed, closed, no engagement required Classification Level: Company Content Content from Your Engagement Level: Reviewed, closed, no engagement required Employees Classification Level: Company Outreach Priority Level: Green Flag (Low) Webinars Engagement Level: Reviewed, closed, no engagement required Classification Level: Company Event Sentiment: Positive Priority: Green Flag (Low) Post Tag: webinar Company Event Engagement Level: Reviewed, closed, no engagement required Classification Level: Other Quick Close Engagement Level: Reviewed, closed, no engagement required (one for General Classification: Other and one for Spam) Post Tags: general or spam 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 17
- 18. Escalation Alert appropriate internal contacts of escalated/critical issues as they occur with sufficient detail to quickly identify whether to respond. Severity Immediate ( 1 day ) 7 Days Issue Trend High 10+ med-hot temp posts/comments on a Influential Blog, negative tone high authority site Post going viral via social networks, med 10+ unique users have the issue or hot temp A med or high temp customer post that draws media attention Medium Influencer or high visibility forum post, 5+ or more med-hot temp posts/comments med or hot temp on a high authority site Post that compels 3+ other commenters to share their negative customer 6-9 unique users have the issue experience Low Low influencer, hot temp with 12+ 5 unique users have the issue comments, or 5+ unique comments 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 18
- 19. Post Assignments List of sample post assignments provided below. These should be updated for your company as appropriate User – email address Topic Common Classification Customer Service/ Customer Support, Technical Support/Troubleshooting Support Support, Troubleshooting Product Management Enhancement recommendation Product Review Team Lead Gen Team Expressed need for a demo/to Sales Lead buy Director of Community Community and overarching Industry Discussion, industry conversations Company Content Corporate Community Corporate and brand Industry Discussion, Managers communities, niche industry Company Content conversations MORE ON NEXT PAGE 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 19
- 20. Post Assignments These should be updated for your company as appropriate - PART 2 User – email address Topic Common Classification Senior Community Higher ed, Analytics, CRM Industry Discussion, Manager spaces and social media Company Content conversations Training Team Training and education for Support/Troubleshooting product users Event Manager Company event-focused Company Event conversations Executive Team Financial, speculation of sale, Industry Discussion high-level business conversations, industry analysis Agency Community Agency customers Industry Discussion, Manager Company Content Content and Product Webinars, website content Company Events, Marketing Company Content 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 20
- 21. Post Assignments What to do when you’re assigned a post 1. Review post and ensure that you are the right person to be handling it. (if not, re-assign to appropriate person) 2. If responding publicly, follow the guidelines laid out in the Engagement section of this playbook. 3. Copy your response in to the notes section of the post you are responding to if applicable. 4. Update “Engagement Level” to reflect the current status of the post after your response/review. 5. Make sure to follow up on any posts assigned to yourself that have not closed. 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 21
- 22. Engagement What to respond to: • Mentions of your company as part of presentations or events • Compliments of your product, service, or people • Recommendations or referrals to your products and/or services • Customer Service/Support issues or inquires • Sales leads of product inquires • Feature requests 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 22
- 23. Engagement Examples of 140 character or less responses: • Thanks for the mention! • Glad we could help. • I’d be happy to to talk to you more about this. • Feel free to pass along any feedback you have. • Let me introduce you to our support/training team. They’ll be in touch to help you out. ** After a mention, compliment , etc. make sure to follow (if not following already) from your company account ** These are examples of what can be said, please do not resort to “copy/paste” answers as every response is different and should be treated that way. 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 23
- 24. Engagement What you should not respond to: • Generic mentions among a sea of competitors, without commentary that’s positive or negative • Sarcastic, snarky or potentially inflammatory comments • Retweets of blog posts or news announcements, unless in low enough volume to respond individually • Tweets from webinars or other online events • Discussions/conversations between individuals that mention your company in passing in which your involvement could be perceived as intrusive MORE ON NEXT PAGE 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 24
- 25. Engagement What you should not respond to: ( part 2 ) • Posts in a language that you don’t have the appropriate understanding or resources to respond to • Posts/forum threads that require membership to respond to, unless it’s a customer service issue, negative post or misinformation you need to correct 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 25
- 26. Engagement What not to say: • Unwarranted public apologies • Any details about future product enhancements • Any announcement regarding technical difficulties or service interruptions • Profanity or inappropriate subject matter • Reference to partners, customers, etc. that are not publicly known 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 26
- 27. Engagement Twitter Favorites: What to favorite • Positive feedback/reviews from customers and prospects • Positive customer service comments Twitter Favorites: What not to favorite • Profanity or inappropriate subject matter (even if it’s used positively) • Mentions from employee’s, partner’s, etc. Twitter Favorites: How to favorite • Give a post tag of “favorite” and tag as favorite in your company’s Twitter account 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 27
- 28. Engagement Duties for “On-Duty” Employee: • Monitor “Alerts – Your Company” topic profile for all mentions of your company ** after hours/support shift to monitor for support/ technical issues and high level inflammatory issues • Assign posts to appropriate team members for response and follow up • Email posts to partners & follow up on their engagement • Housekeep and close items (i.e. your own company posts) • Update Source Tags as needed • Ensure all users have reviewed/closed all posts they are assigned • Integrate information into your CRM system as needed 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 28
- 29. Engagement Monitoring Schedule M T W T F S S 9am-5pm Community Community Community Community Community Analyst Analyst Analyst Analyst Analyst 5pm-9pm Support Support Support Support Support Support 9pm-5am* Support Support Support Support Support Support * 9pm-5am monitoring if applicable to your company ** Community Analyst lunch time flexible depending on volume and day, community team members to provide support as needed 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 29
- 30. Engagement Post Posted on Oct 20. 2009 at 10:02PM I’m trying to copy a widget and the recipient never receives it Radian6support Support Receives Post assignment Technical Support Review Notes, source url, post details Engagement stage- Reviewed determining best response Edit Engagement stage as necessary Classification- Customer Support Add notes/tags as necessary Edit Notes/Tags Resolve post Somewhat Neg Sentiment Change engagement stage to Post assignment to Customer Support closed when resolved 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 30
- 31. Reporting Escalation scenario – as required, based on Severity Alert Guidelines • Through post assignment and e-mails if need be Weekly reports to give a quick summary of top issues and competitor stance • In the form of an e-mail summary & copied dashboard available to anyone who expresses an interest Monthly reporting to ensure Managed Listening Objectives are met • In the form of a slide deck complete with insight and summary points Ad hoc reporting for topics of interest or after specific company events • In either slide deck or dashboard format 7/30/10 - Copyright © 2010 Radian6 31