[SOCIAL MEDIA, MONITORING] Breakdown of a Dedicated Social Media Engagement or Command Center
Left: Dell’s Social Media Command and Listening Center, Austin Texas.
The purpose of this post is to be an industry reference for this social business use case, please leave comments with further additions.
Many a year ago, I worked at a web hosting company that had a Network Operations Center (NOC) that looked like NASA’s mission control. Enclosed in a glass ‘fishbowl’ the 20-50 staff, systems, training, technology were all used in conjunction to support the network traffic of the customers websites, see Google images. The “NOC” was externally packaged and marketed as a cutting edge feature of a top performance center, touted on customer tours at HQ, and had internal mystique and prestige of those who were there.
Today, we similar centers emerging at top brands, event managers, as well as offerings from a variety of marketing and customer service providers for social. With India’s recent crises on social channels causing a shut down in websites, expect government bodies and agencies around the world to open these for daily interaction with citizens, and as well as dealing with high urgency situations.
A really comprehensive guide to the necessary details involved in the creation of a listening centre/station. The reality is that most brands won't need most of this, but the considerations remain. Far from being the domain of the big brands, this is the starting point of evolving into a social business - where the outside world that customers own, needs to have a direct impact on your company inside.
