Includes bibliographical references and index.

"How 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 learn how to: Empower employees and teams to utilize social media effectively throughout the organization Measure the ROI of social media investments and ensure appropriate business value is achieved over time Make smarter decisions, make them more quickly, and make them stick Get the most out of your social media investment and fully leverage its benefits at your company with The Social Media Management Handbook"-- Provided by publisher.

I. Social media strategy for organizations -- The power and business risks of social media / -- Nick Smith and Robert Wollan -- How to develop a social media strategy / -- Chris Boudreaux -- Social media ROI: new metrics for customer health / -- Kevin Quiring -- Selling social media within the organization / -- Rober Wollan -- II. Marketing and sales in social media -- Social media and the voice of the customer / -- Chris Zinner and Catherine Zhou -- Integrating social CRM insights into the customer analytics function / -- Rayid Ghani and Sarah Bentley -- Using social media to drive product development and find new services to sell / -- Adi Alon and A.J. Gupta -- Social community marketing and selling / -- Robert Wollan and André Trochymiuk -- III. Customer service and support with social media -- Using social media in customer service and support / -- Stephanie Sadowski -- Social media: responding to customer complaints / -- Todd R. Wagner -- Staying out of trouble: complying with FTC disclosures / -- Chris Boudreaux -- IV. Beyond the "pilot" phase: the core components of the agile digital enterprise -- Creating and implementing a social media technology platform / -- Anatoly Roytman and Joseph Hughes -- Social CRM on the move: mobility implications for social media programs / -- Greg Jenko, / Lars Kamp, and / Saj Usman -- New rules for tools: IT infrastructure implications and options for supporting enterprise social media / -- Robert Wollan and Kelly Dempski -- V. Empowering employees for social media success -- Culture traits, employee incentives, and training / -- Christine Eberle -- New roles and responsibilities / -- Chris Zinner and / Vanessa Godshalk -- Social media policies / -- Chris Boudreaux -- Social media, collaboration, and value creation in organizations / -- Robert J. Thomas.