Conversations is the main source to see engagements with your social media channels. Here, you will find the content streams from each of your connected channels. You can read and respond to your inbound messages, share messages with team members, and tag messages for trend reporting and filtering.

This article will outline some best practices for using Conversations for your social community management by different use cases.

Below are the best practices that you should be utilizing for all Conversations use cases.

Using Saved Responses allows you to create a shared repository of frequently used messages to respond back to fan messages. This allows you to standardize your responses and increases your efficiency in responding. Saved responses are channel and message type agnostic, can be accessed by all Engage users, and can be edited when applied, to allow for personalization.

It is a best practice to use a naming convention when saving your responses, to allow you to search for, and find them quickly.

Example Saved Responses:

By assigning posts you've received to your social media profiles, you can make sure the right teammate is notified of and responds to incoming Conversations. This is one of the best ways to efficiently work through your queue, and offer excellent customer service.

Assigning a message to another teammate will notify them of a message that requires their attention, even if they are not logged in to Meltwater. You can include notes with your assignment, to provide further context on the message and reason for the assignment.

Assignments can be used for collaboration, or escalation, of any inbound fan message. Assignments can be changed to move through a dedicated escalation path or sent back to the original escalator with notes on how to handle them.

Members that are often escalated to can use the Content filter to display only messages Assigned to themselves.

Click the magnifying glass at the top of the content stream to open the Find bar. You can search for @mentions, hashtags, and keywords within your fan messages. Inserting more than one search term treats the search as an AND statement. For example, if you search "tracking" and "delay", results will only return messages that contain both of these words.

You can use this to quickly find messages that require your attention first, assign them to another team member, or clear them out of your queue.

Find is also a great way to search for older messages after they have already been completed and are no longer in the queue.

Tagging fan messages is a great way to track your inbound message trends, using the Cross Channel Tags report in Analyze. This allows you to see if your volume is going up or down, per tag.

You can also use tags to segment and filter inbound messages. This allows you to easily filter down by tagged messages to create additional queues.

Tagging can be done individually per message, or in bulk.

Example tag types

Each fan interaction is recorded and kept as a history for that particular fan and channel. To access a fan's profile, click their profile picture in the viewing pane.

There are two tabs available, Notes, and History.

Notes are internal only and can be left so other team members can have more insight into who you are interacting with. You can leave notes on how to interact with the fan, or what follow-up items are requested.

History displays all inbound messages from that fan to the specific social account. You will see each interaction in descending order by date.

Bulk Actions

Save time by bulk marking messages Complete, as well as bulk tagging.

Most organizations measure customer care success by resolution time. Using the below settings, you can optimize Conversations to help achieve higher resolution times.

Sort your content stream by date, with the oldest messages first. Doing so allows any new messages that you receive while working to enter the bottom of your content stream, instead of the top. This prevents new messages from pushing older messages down in your queue, which would extend the time it takes to get to them, resulting in longer response times.

Status

Date range

Protip: for mature customer care teams, set your date range to All time, to make sure there are every message in the queue is handled.

Sentiment

Content

Custom Filter Sets

Conversations about your brand don't only happen on your pages, handles, and content. It can be important to not only see these conversations but to join them. That is where Meltwater Explore comes into play.

Meltwater Explore Integration

Meltwater's Social Listening tool, Explore, can integrate Twitter listening data directly into Engage. This allows you to join conversations that you would not normally be able to within Conversations.

Explore Saved Searches

If you have influencers/ambassadors/advocates that represent your brand online, you can also view and interact with their social messages via Conversations. Once again Meltwater Explore helps accomplish this.

Meltwater Explore Integration

Meltwater's Social Listening tool, Explore, can integrate Twitter listening data directly into Engage. This allows you to join conversations that you would not normally be able to within Conversations.

Author Lists

Conversations allows you to view the posts you've posted to your social pages and handles with the Brand Posts message Type filter.

Filtering by Brand Posts (Brand Tweets for Twitter), allows you to filter only for your page posts, and tweets. This allows you to easily moderate messages by post, rather than by when they were received.

You can also tag outbound posts via this view as well.

The Meltwater Engage Mobile app allows you to quickly work through your content stream when not at a computer. You can easily respond to fan messages via your phone. Great for during an event, while in a meeting, or just away from your desk.

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