You May Need A Facebook Intelligence Command Center

Do you need a social intelligence command center?

Forrester Research defines a social intelligence command center as a dedicated resource for crisis management, marketing measurement, customer support, market research, and engagement marketing.

That comes from the research company’s report released today called “Best Practices: The Social Intelligence Command Center.”

It includes a self-test to help you determine whether your company needs a social intelligence command center — we’ve got a condensed version of the assessment right here.  Forrester awards:

one point for every 1 million customers, with a maximum of 5five points for the restaurant or consumer electronics industries; 3 for automobiles, media and entertainment; and travel; and 1 for food and beverage, politics, healthcare, retail, apparel and clothing, and business servicesfive points for 1,000 or more product mentions across Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and forums; 3 points for 500-999; 1 point for 100-499; and 0 points for fewer than 100one point for each of the following: corporate or product Facebook page, Twitter handle, corporate blog, customer community, other social campaigns.five points if a crisis involving unhappy customers, business practices issues, political steps, or product decisions has occurred within the past two years;three points if the aforementioned types of crises areone point if the previously mentioned crises are unlikely.

If your total score is:

20 to 25 points: Get started on a Facebook intelligence command center immediately!6 to 19 points: Evaluate your internal resources to see how you could improve your social media presence0 to 5 points: You have no immediate need. Go ahead and breathe a sigh of relief.

Readers, how do you score on this assessment? And what do you think about turning your Facebook page into a customer intelligence command center?

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