Why Team Tweeting? The requirements of keeping your brand’s Twitter content fresh while dealing with customer service and sales leads can quickly become too much for one person with a day job. But how do you effectively share the responsibilities–while maintaining a strong personal voice? How do you establish guidelines to assure that the team communicates appropriately and on a schedule–while adding value to the conversation?
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What you need to consider:
• The right people
• Assignments and roles
• Sharing responsibilities
• Establishing guidelines
• Elements of a team strategy
• Content strategy
• Balance of promotion
• Tools of the trade
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Sharing Responsibilities
• Who is the twitter account voice/lead
• Who monitors for @replies and when
• Who responds and when
• Who schedules promotional tweets
• Who contributes what to the total content
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Establishing Guidelines
• The content strategy
• What should be responded to or not
• Who to escalate certain issues to
– Customer service
– Sales
– PR/Marketing
• Who can make a call on Tweeting something that doesn’t
fit the usual content strategy
• How to handle crisis situations and who makes the call
on what will go through the Twitter channel (stop any
pre-scheduled tweets)
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Elements of a Team Strategy
• Guidelines for team member involvement
• Engagement plan
• Team schedule
• Content strategy
• Assignments
• Crisis plan
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Content Strategy
Your industry News & tips 15%
Social media Effects on your
industry
15%
Personal/human Humanizing
conversation
<10%
Marketing / PR Promotion of
organization
< 10%
Engagement @’s and RT’s 50%
Opinion 0% ?
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Balance of Promotion
< 10%
Keep it under 10% of total tweets and
schedule them out carefully so your
promotional tweets don’t become an
annoyance to your followers
Journalists with profiles on Twitter:
2010 = 58%
According to the 2010 PRWeek/PR Newswire Media Survey: http://bit.ly/93KV0E
Survey was conducted by CA Walker for PRWeek and PR Newswire.
Email notifications were sent to 127,982 media professionals (1300 completed it), and 104,771 PR practitioners (1385 completed it).
Journalists with profiles on Twitter:
2010 = 58%
2009 = 22%
Each person should bring something unique to the team.
The right people for @PRNewswire:
@savsimon – Media Relations Manager (broadcast and wire specialist)
@thomashynes – Blogger Relations Manager
@victoriaharres – Director, Audience Development
@cpcube – Media Relations Manager (print and freelance specialist)
Each person must understand their role / their assignment, and the overall Twitter strategy and mission.