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These Smart Social Media Tactics Will Help You Prevent A Crisis

Melissa Agnes

A company with two plane crashes in the last year asks people to post their bucket list destinations on social media. A social media manager loses their temper in a customer service post on Facebook. Everyone is using social media for marketing today. How to avoid a public relations crisis.

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Updates to note for social media professors: Teaching resources

Karen Freberg

This actually was a topic of conversation on the Social Media Professor’s Community FB group I created, and this really struck a cord for me. We are all in the same boat if we are teaching social media since it’s constantly changing. Timeline in Social Media (Buffer). Wendy’s Social Media.

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Is working in social media stressful?: Some thoughts and recommendations

Karen Freberg

Everyone thinks working in social media is “easy” and anyone can do it. I have gotten this a lot from professors who do not teach social media over the years: Karen – teaching social media is all about taking selfies and creating memes, right? How do I respond? I answer back yes.

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3 Must-Do’s (Right Now) to Make 2015 Crisis-Free

Melissa Agnes

If you aren’t yet monitoring social media and the web as a whole, then you aren’t ready for anything, never mind to implement the following three must-do strategies. Do your customer service representatives understand their responsibility when it comes to issue management ?

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Infographic: The Perennial Customer Revolution

Sword and the Script

It seems to me the same is true of customer service. Every few years there’s a new book that forewarns of a customer revolution. Mass media, the web, social media were all destined to change customer service. Good customer service isn’t the rule, it’s an exception. Litmus test?

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3 Must-Do’s (Right Now) to Make 2015 Crisis-Free

Melissa Agnes

1- Review your customer service policies and trainings. Do your customer service representatives understand their responsibility when it comes to issue management ? Review your customer service and issues management policies, and incorporate issue management protocols, procedures and guidelines within them.

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State of Crisis Communications and Social Media from a Professor’s Perspective

Waxing UnLyrical

Social media and crisis communications has become one of the fastest growing areas of both practice and research for today’s communication landscape. Additionally, “over half of respondents (52%) feel that the benefits of using social media as a crisis communications tool outweigh the risks” (page 4).