#only using those hashtags to get answers asap

[traumatizedartist]

Chat is this true question mark?

I take everything I see on YouTube with a grain of salt and I can't for the life of me fact check this

Don't mind the blatent khan hate, everyone is entitled to their own opinion :3

[hotd2025bingo]

FAQ

What’s a bingo?

It is an event in which you get a card (in this one is 4x4) and you cross out squares by creating fanworks based on the prompt displayed in the square.

Like normal bingo you can be considered to have “won” once having completed a full row, column, or diagonal line, or by completing every single square for a “full house!”

2. How do I get a card?

You would need to fill out this form: HERE in the sheduled time to get one. Each card is personalized to the recipient's preferences.

3. What do I do if I don't like certain squares on my card?

You will be able to request a maximum of 5 square changes the first two weeks of January (or two weeks after you get your card if you have received it later).

It is important to specify everything you don't want to show up in the initial form to avoid this. But if you have forgotten or just not taken into account this you can always use this opportunity to remedy it.

4. Do I get something for crossing off squares?

You will get a badge for participating in the event.

There will be one badge for completing your first fill, one for doing 4 squares in a row and one for doing a full Bingo.

As time progresses there may be extra seasonal or thematical badges you can earn.

5. I've filled out the form, when can I expect my Bingo card ?

If you sign up before the 28th of December you will get your card before the event starts the 1st of January. Any sign ups after that date will be procesed asap, but it may take up to two weeks to craft your card.

6. I have filled up the form and waited the specified time but I haven't recieved a card. What do I do?

Once you fill out the form you should recieve a copy of your answers to the email you have entered. As long as you have recieved this email your sign up has gone trough and is being procesed.

If you have not gotten this confirmation email after 24h (make sure to check the Spam forlder) please contact me to see if I have gotten it or if you need to fill the form again, because it means your sign up has been faulty.

7. Can squares be combined into one work?

No

The only exception is multichapter fics or comic pages, in those each chapter or page count as a square filled.

8. Can I crosspost with other events?

Yes, as long as that other event also allows crossposting.

9. What sort of content is allowed?

This Bingo is meant for +18 participants so as long as it's tagged apropiately and legal you are allowed to use it for a square fill.

We operate under the Don't Like, Don't Read metality. Harrasment and excessive criticism is not allowed.

10. Do I have to fill all my squares?

No, you can feel as many as you feel like. There is no presure whatsoever.

11. What happens if I fill all my squares?

Then you will get a badge and if you want I can give you the option to get a new card. Depending on how it goes I may open a new form for this matter, in the meantime just contact me with these requests.

12. Can I write or make art in another language?

Yes, non english works are welcomed!

13. Where can I post my artworks?

You can post them anywhere you like, twitter, tumblr, AO3, wattpad... The world is full of posibilities!

If you are here on tumblr please tag @hotd2025bingo so I can reblog it, if you are on twitter use the #Hotd2025Bingo hashtag and if you are on AO3 please add your work to the event's collection .

I will do my best to boost it as long as I'm aware of it's existance, and other participants are encouraged to do the same.

My question hasn't been answered here, what can I do?

You can send an ask to this blog (anon is allowed if you want extra privacy) or you can DM me at @sparkles_v1 on twitter.

As a last resort you can contact the AO3 collection email adress.

[sws00194elsa]

Week 7: I don't look so good (on social media)

Ah, the human body. A glorious (and sometimes gloriously weird) temple for our souls, a meat suit we get to rock for this wacky ride called life. But let's face it, despite how people look, they are still themselves, I know that there are reasons behind the dislike of their own images such as mirror image preference, control reflection, or selfie popularity (Blalock, 2013). Consequently, people are modifying their appearance by applying digital filters or lately, it seems like everyone's becoming a Michelangelo in training, sculpting and decorating their bodies in ways that would make even Donatello do a double-take. Elsa, myself, has experienced body dissatisfaction (just like most of us), but none of the body modification has been taken to alter the way I look, only by the hard way (by lifting, hard, you know!). So, let's explore this fascinating and sometimes perplexing, world of body modification in the age of social media.

First but foremost, the elephant in the room with the septum ring: social media's influence. Gone are the days of dog-eared magazines with airbrushed models. Now, user's feeds are flooded with a constant stream of perfectly curated bodies, all sporting the latest body mods. From strategically placed dermal anchors to technicolour hair that would put a unicorn to shame, the pressure to conform is real. To further explore this, Dorfman et al. (2017) explored Instagram as the platform is stated to be naturally suited to plastic surgery, as well as being a dominant visual social media channel where plastic surgery continues to rise. Their paper also conclude the answers to several questions:

What plastic surgery-related content is being posted to Instagram: Plastic surgery-related content being posted on the platform includes photos and videos showcasing before-and-after transformations, surgical procedures being performed, anatomical diagrams, and testimonials from plastic surgery patients describing their experiences (Dorfman et al., 2017).

Who is posting these contents: Various individuals and entities are posting plastic surgery-related content on Instagram. Among the posters, plastic surgeons eligible for membership in the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) account for a portion of the content. However, non-plastic surgery trained physicians, such as those identifying themselves as "cosmetic surgeons", also contribute significantly. Additionally, non-physicians, including dentists, spas without associated physicians, and even hair salons, are found to be posting plastic surgery-related content (Dorfman et al., 2017).

What specific hashtags are they using: The study identified several specific hashtags that are commonly used in plastic surgery-related posts on Instagram. These hashtags include #plasticsurgery, #cosmeticsurgery, #aestheticsurgery, #plasticsurgeon, #cosmeticsurgeon, #aestheticsurgeon, #breastlift, #mastopexy, #breastaugmentation, #boobjob, #breastimplant, #nosejob, #rhinoplasty, #rhytidectomy, #facelift, #tummytuck, #abdominoplasty, #brazilianbuttlift, #buttockaugmentation, #bodycontouring, and #liposuction. These hashtags allow users to identify and explore content related to specific plastic surgery procedures and topics of interest (Dorfman et al., 2017).

But here's the rub: the line between artistic expression and the ever-present threat of "pornification" can get blurry faster than you can say "body dysmorphia filter". And again, Instagram, which has become a dominant channel for business marketing to young adults (Dorfman et al., 2017), is also associated with a significant correlation between excessive social media use and body dissatisfaction, particularly among young adults (Tigge et al., 2020). Suddenly, that cute little nose ring people wanted because their favorite influencer has one starts morphing into a desperate need to alter your entire appearance to fit some unrealistic aesthetic template.

However, let's not paint social media as the villain of this story entirely. The platform has also empowered a new wave of body positivity. People are proudly showcasing modifications that were once considered taboo, challenging narrow beauty standards and celebrating the diversity of the human form. Think transgender individuals getting top surgery and reclaiming their bodies, or amputees rocking some seriously badass prosthetic limbs - these are stories of empowerment, not vanity.

The key takeaway? Body modification is a personal choice, and there's no one-size-fits-all answer. Want to get a tattoo that commemorates your love for pizza? Go for it! Feeling the urge to dye your hair a shade that would make radioactive highlighter jealous? After you, glorious "weirdo". But before undergoing any modifications, take a moment for some serious introspection:

Are you doing this for YOU, or for the Insta-likes?

Are you prepared for the commitment?

Have you researched the risks?

Ultimately, your body is your canvas. But remember, unlike a bad paint job, some modifications are permanent. So, approach them with a healthy dose of humour, a dash of self-awareness, and a whole lot of body love. Because trust Elsa (60% only, not fully), the world needs your unique brand of weirdness, septum ring and all.

References

Blalock, M. (2013). The Science Behind Why People Don’t Like How They Look In Photos. StyleCaster. https://stylecaster.com/lifestyle/lifestyle/208817/why-people-dont-like-how-they-look-in-photos/

Dorfman, R. G., Vaca, E. E., Mahmood, E., Fine, N. A., & Schierle, C. F. (2017). Plastic Surgery-Related Hashtag Utilization on Instagram: Implications for Education and Marketing. Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 38(3), 332–338. https://doi.org/10.1093/asj/sjx120

Gee, C., Maskell, J., Newcombe, P., Kimble, R., & Williamson, H. (2020). Australian health professionals’ perspectives of psychosocial adjustment to visible differences: A qualitative analysis of pediatric populations. Body Image, 33, 13–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.02.004

[battle-of-alberta]

OCtober: Cal and Ed

It’s finally over. I’m sorry for the delay but stuff has been Happening. If there’s a tourism site that attracts you more to one city or the other, let me know.

Calgary | Edmonton

Below is some meta stuff about the ‘research’ (if you can even call it   that, it was more of a vibe check) I did for re-doing the profiles. Read  on, if it intrigues you. And I gotta mention there’s a bonus rabbit hole I went down for Calgary’s self-image that is. Well. A Lot.

Major Cities: Calgary and Edmonton

We made it team, the heart of the Battle of Alberta, the major city rivalry that defined generations. Calgary is the largest city in the province and the centre of southern Alberta, a young, fast-paced major city that oscillates wildly between boom and bust and is attracting both attention and employees from the traditional major cities in Canada. Edmonton is the capital of the province and the the most northern major city with a metro population of over one million on the continent, a little older and more blue collar, somewhat more stable economically, and quickly rising to meet the challenges presented by open data and sustainable urban planning. And, as we know, they've been antagonizing each other since the 19th century, but collaborating as well.

Website Round Up Premise

While I was revisiting these character profiles, I took a look at how cities represented themselves on their municipal sites and tourism sites rather than how cities were represented in the news or in stereotypes, as the latter already tend to live in the back of my head. I was interested to see who the target audiences for each city were, what they considered their strengths, and how much effort each city put into putting its own identity on display. I was also interested into what ideas sort of fed into any pre-existing confirmation bias I had about each city's personality as well as interested in what narratives might be used to counteract negative stereotypes.The first thing I tended to notice was the overall information architecture of each city's website. How easy were they to navigate? What kinds of information did they have? How did they organize it? How did they communicate that information?

Out and About

There's a sharp difference between the websites of major cities from other cities. They are very careful to separate the corporation of 'The City of' from the cities we might know, and therefore both websites have a much more business-like tone and more distance from their civic identities. This means no traditional "About" pages as other cities might have.

At the time I'm visiting, Edmonton's page has some ADORABLE art of a nuthatch that's making me very homesick. Calgary has a seasonally appropriate snowy skyline.

Calgary does have an "Our Organization" tab which describes the City as a corporation, and likewise Edmonton has a "City Government" tab that performs a similar function. Edmonton's is in alphabetical order which is only a little annoying and Calgary's reads like a very perfectly chunked business portfolio that doesn't... really say as much as it looks like it does, but it does get bonus points for vision/organization/accessibility.

I have never seen a more concise history of Calgary in my life. It's literally three bullet points and a couple of bracketing sentences, but it does do the job. Calgary is, more or less, what it says it is (although I do take slight issue with its self identification as a trading post - it may have functioned that way but that was not what it was founded for and in fact the trading companies gtfo'd asap in those early days). It goes on to paint a very good sketch of the city in as few lines as possible in the text, and there's a little video at the end that feels like it was voiced over in 1988 even though it's clearly not.

Edmonton's City government page is even vaguer. Let's make a more dynamic and resilient Edmonton shall we, the page suggests. Resilient against What Exactly, I wonder. Winter? The boom-bust? Calgary? who knows. The majority of the sub pages are even more mysterious and essentially paint the picture of a city. It's a normal city. Trust us. We do city things. Here is exactly how government works and how to raise and lower a flag. In Edmonton, which is, in fact, a city.

I'm begging you if you think Calvin is hokey and annoying please read the Our Culture page and see it's EXACTLY how I intended to portray him because it's eXACTLY what it's already like. "The Four C's of Our Culture" give me a break.

Edmonton offers me a picture of the skyline and says "City of Opportunity: City of You". I suppose this is true. I don't know what it means. I fear slightly for its intentions.

I keep seeing "Calgary: A great place to make a living, a great place to make a life" and it's like. Stop! I won't go! You can't make me! (and again the Strong and Resilient Calgary. these kids are always catching colds because they don't eat properly.)

Although Edmonton makes literally zero attempt to define itself (outside perhaps the official symbols page hidden under Facts and Figures), what strikes me is that it is portraying itself as a very future-oriented city, which, when I was growing up we really never were. We were an inward city constantly wishing we were somewhere else which is partially still true, and we were a city with such an intense nostalgia (that unlike Calgary we failed to really capitalize on) that grated roughly against a complete failure to preserve history. It does kind of make me glad that the city is looking towards the future and just like, acknowledging basic realities (like snow) and trying to involve people in urban planning more (and throughout the website the city LOOOOVES to share data which I also called, haha). There's also an adorable animation of the city road map in its strategic planning pages. It's interesting that for a city that leaves itself up to your own interpretation, it does have a LOT of information about itself collected and available.

Tourism

Oddly enough, neither city has substantially changed their tourism homepage to accommodate COVID-related staycation plans, although each does mention that many things may be closed or unavailable as a result of the pandemic.

CaLGARy, Be PaRT of THe EnERGy!!

I like how Edmonton's self-presentation is "original" and "we do things differently". It's like a Keep ___ Weird thing but in an understated self-assured way that makes me laugh a little. Like yeah, I guess we are kind of different, I guess we're just not used to seeing that as a good thing.

In the tourism guides there isn't much to say about Calgary's that isn't just "oh, classic Calgary" but I do think the fact that they have "quick facts" to explain what timezone it's in and what currency they use is adorable to say the least. also the title of the guide is CALGARY (and the canadian rockies) and that sums up Calgary pretty well, which I'll elaborate on more.

I actually can't find Edmonton's guide, if it has one, but that's ok. The website hits all the buttons that I would and I actually use exploreedmonton quite frequently because it has a nicer event calendar than the city website does, which is important in a place nicknamed Festival City. I really appreciate how things are organized by month/season and even down to "what's happening today/tomorrow/this week" because it makes planning trips for my visitors easy, so now you know my secret : ) I wish I could just beam this site directly into people's brains when they mention "oh yeah thats where the mall is" when I say I'm from Edmonton.

Interestingly enough it's Calgary's turn to be vague, which I can only assume is part of its "exactly what it says it is" charm. This desperation to find a shred of self-description outside of things to do and places to stay led me down a rabbit hole I will elaborate on in a moment that truly showed me I Knew Nothing about how deep Calgary's branding goes. Otherwise, the website is very practical and functions more like an answer to questions you had about the what and the how and less so the why.

Also, the "Locals" page on Calgary's site has tips on hosting friends and family from around the province safely during the pandemic which is kind of cute. Edmonton doesn't really have a local page (i guess because if we had a hashtag like #loveyyc we'd ruin it)

Bonus: The Rabbit Hole

I wondered why Calgary's tourism page, which I expected to be the most in your face description of the city possible, fell kind of flat. I learned this seems to be because tourists are not the target audience that Calgary wants to attract. It's companies and corporations, and they get their own page.

Boy oh boy do they get their own page

This led me down this frightening path of getting validation like being repeatedly punched in the face by what On Brand Calgary truly means and I'm frankly quite speechless about it - all I can say is that you need to see it for yourself.

The tourism site gestures to a Billion reasons why you should hold your next meeting in Calgary and here is where the self definition as Big City Energy and Western Hospitality starts kicking the tires and lighting the fires. Likewise with the media-oriented page. Suddenly stuff like the Calgary Bucket List starts popping up and I can't help but go hang on, why not suggest this to tourists?

"It's cowboy spirit, but also refined and cosmopolitan" [sighs into hands]

Suddenly all the "Calgarians love visitors! Calgarians love the outdoors!" stuff is spilling out like water from a dam here. "Where's Calgary?" [Link that reads FIND US].

Like i literally feel like the tourism side on the left is the Kids Menu, it's the corporate stuff on the right that I'm actually finding the type of information I want on. Eventually, I somehow make my way to Calgary's Destination Strategy which is trying to make Calgary a place that... well, people go. Like, internationally. Like the Olympics but MORE of that.

Then I find the Brand Evolution. Then I find Calgary's Economic Development site. The poetry about rocky mountain prairie skies and "where a handshake still means something" starts to reach its peak.

Then back through the tourism site I find the video. And the video makes me shake because it suggests the premise of The Powerpoint.

The Powerpoint. I cannot summarize the powerpoint in any meaningful way or how my emotions were a rollercoaster further and further up and down the longer i scrolled. Everything I know and suggest about Calgary seems to be unequivocally true, including the sense that Calgary as a person is the sort of person who makes powerpoints about his own identity crisis because that's precisely what this is.

And then I get to the part of the powerpoint that suggests I imagine what kind of person the city of Calgary might be (and implied: does that person think about anything other than the mountains???) THEY EVEN DID AN OCEAN PERSONALITY TEST FOR THE CITY I KID YOU NOT

Hi, City of Edmonton, hire me to take an OCEAN test for our fair city. I'm begging you.

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“Car insurance providers” won’t pull up much news, but the more general “car insurance” gives you a better overview of the industry

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Car insurance is a pretty hot topic!

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If all goes well, you should have an article published with a backlink to your website! And if the story looks good, there’s no harm emailing the editor and asking if they’d be interested in a continued partnership. They might work at other properties or need more content in the future.

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Confusingly, both hashtags are also used by bloggers. You can either just try to ignore them, or you can type “filter:verified” after the hashtag.

This will filter out all posts from unverified accounts. As a general rule, journalists are more often verified than bloggers.

Did you know that Ikea made solar panels? I certainly didn’t…

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If they do the latter, don’t chase it up. Twitter moves fast and journalists are very busy people. If they are interested, they’ll probably give you a deadline. If not, ask for one — though assume that it’s as soon as possible.

Get them their comment ASAP. Include a link to your website somewhere in the comment, or write a short bio line at the top, with a link to your website. The comment doesn’t need to be long and the journalist might only end up using a couple of sentences anyway. About 300 words should be more than enough.

Once you’ve sent your comment over, check for the published article. If it doesn’t contain your comment, hard luck. If it does contain it with a link, congratulations!

If the article is published but without a link, don’t worry. Send the journalist a polite email asking to be credited for the story. Most are more than happy to oblige.

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♡ what is aes!ocnet? 

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keep in mind, the admin is only human and has other responsibilities than this ocnet which is only a hobby. i try our best to stay active but as the past has shown us, that is not always the case. we do try to update our members if we ever need to take a break from reblogging or any other changed occur with aes!ocnet. 

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Smosh Family Feud

WORD COUNT: 1805

A/N: so, i’m uploading this from mobile and will get back to format it asap when i get home on Tuesday morning!

You glared into the sun from your post next to Noah and Lasercorn. It was getting cooler as the hours clicked on, but the setting sun seemed to be taunting you. It was saying that this day would end and another would have to take its place. On any other day, you’d be fine with it. Today, however, the sun was a timer and it was ticking down how much longer you guys had outside before you had to wrap filming for the day.

You forced your gaze away from the sun in time to see Sarah bounce over to stand in the middle between the two groups. You refocused on your podium and took note of the person counting down behind the camera.

“Smosh Summer Games: Apocalypse!”

Lasercorn made a comment loud enough for his mic to pick it up, sending you into a small fit of giggles. You poked his cheek, a smile gracing your lips, “Old man Corn.”

He swatted your hand away, sounds of protest coming from his mouth.

“Today, we are playing Smosh Family Feud,” Sarah announced, pausing for the several whoops that were let out by the cast. “It’s gonna get nasty, it’s gonna get a little shady and we’re gonna spill all the tea.”

Sarah explained the rules of the game, which was more for the viewers than it was for us. You looked off to Toxicitea’s side, furrowing your eyebrows at what Ian and Joven were up to. They both had their foreheads pressed together while making running movements but moving nowhere.

Sarah explained the punishment, a Holi Powder Slap to the face from the opposite team. You squished your face between your two hands and pouted. A Holi Powder Slap was the last thing you needed.

Soon enough, the first question was asked. Sarah turned to us and proclaimed that we would receive the first question.

“Don’t let us down, Court!” you called, shooting her a supportive thumbs up. “You got this, I love you!”

She glared at you before dropping the mean look and giving you a cheesy grin. “Love you too!”

“My first question to team Mushroom Clout is, we’re gonna start out a little soft,” Sarah glanced down at her cards. “Who on your team would die first during the apocalypse?”

You bit your thumb before scribbling down your answer and flipping your board over.

Sarah asked for Damien’s answer first.

“Love you, Courtney, but Court!”

Courtney took offense to that, playing up her reactions for the camera. She threw her hands up and fell onto her podium in semi-defeat.

Keith’s answer came next, working down the line until it reached you.

“I’m so sorry, but I put Damien,” you flipped your board for the camera to see. You put up your hands in self-defense, rocking back slightly, “But only because I feel like he’d go back for someone or he’d make the sacrifice play for his friends!”

“No yeah, that makes sense,” Shayne shouted from the opposite end of the line. “Damien would one-hundred percent make the sacrifice play.”

The votes were tallied up as one for Courtney, one for Keith, one for Damien, and two for Noah.

“So, Courtney, who did you think would die first in an apocalypse?”

Courtney whipped around to look at Damien. “First of all,” she started, “Damien, I am hurt. I would kill it in the apocalypse. But, you know I picked the person, the only person who doesn’t have a driver’s license.”

She flipped her board to reveal Keith’s name written down. You clapped politely and stood quietly for the opposing team to take their turn. By now, the sun was on a steady decline downwards and you could see the golden hour coming into play.

The next question for your team was, “Who on your team has the worst style?”

You looked at each person individually before your eyes settled on Lasercorn. You sent him an apologetic look before quickly jotting his name down. The votes for this round ended up being five votes for Lasercorn.

“I’m sorry, dad, but have you seen what you’ve decided to wear today?”

Lasercorn looked down at his outfit and motioned wide. “What’s wrong with my outfit?”

You turned and pointed at the camera, “Nothing! Hashtag Rep Mushroom Clout!”

“Wait, no, don’t change the subject. What’s wrong with my outfit?”

“I don’t know, dad. You tell me!” You used that bit to garner a few laughs before hugging it out with your Smosh dad. You both refocused on Damien at the guessing booth and crossed your fingers in anticipation for Damien’s answer.

“Real quick,” Damien said. “Noah, your style is wacky weird. And like good is subjective, you know? And Lasercorn wears a lot of video game shirts, I wear a lot of video game shirts.”

Your eyes widened at what Damien was implying. “Damien, tell me you didn’t!”

“No, you’re right I didn’t. But I did put Lasercorn down.”

The whole group came together at Damien’s words, screaming and generally being crazy. Courtney beelined for you and snuck a kiss onto your cheek. You instantly felt your face heat up at the content and hid bashfully behind your hands.

You watched Wes get voted as least funniest for their group, though he was okay with that. The round wrapped up with Toxicitea in the lead, ten to six. The odds were not looking so good for Lasercorn’s streak.

“Alright, Mushroom Clout’s turn,” Sarah whipped out her cards again and flipped to the next question. “Who on your team would ditch you guys to hang out with a celebrity?”

“Well, you know he’s really just one of my best friends but I feel like sometimes he’s just way too cool for me,” you flipped your board to reveal Keith’s name. “Keith, I love you and I know you would never intentionally hurt me or anyone else like that, but if Michael Jackson came back to life specifically for you, you wouldn’t say no.”

By the end of the voting, the points had rallied up as four for Keith and one for Courtney.

“This has really given me some time to self reflect, but at the same time,” Keith pointed at you. “My homegirl, Y/n knows me too well, I would leave y’all motherfuckers in a heartbeat to hang at the Jackson’s house.”

The way that the votes swung put both teams on equal ground, and it stayed like that for basically the whole time, forcing a tiebreaker round to be played.

“It’s time for the tiebreaker,” Sarah announced. “This question is for everyone on the cast. Who out of everyone-two people-do you think has the best ship?”

You contemplated for a moment before jotting down Shayne and Courtney’s names, thinking that besides from you and Courtney, those two would be an obvious choice. The only reason you didn’t put yourself was that you and Courtney haven’t really told the fans about your relationship, wanting to let it flourish without any outside input.

Courtney’s final answer proved your thinking right she revealed her answer to be herself and Shayne.

Toxicitea all voted, two for Iancorn, Two for Shourtney, and one for Ian and Anthony. Ian flipped his own board, revealing Shourtney as his answer. As Toxicitea celebrated their win, Matt Raub called you off to the side. He handed you the box that you had asked him to hold onto before this video’s shooting and gave you a thumbs up. “We’ve stopped shooting for now so you could do this.”

You thanked Matt before slowly walking back over to your podium. If you did this, there would be no going back, no matter the answer though you hoped it to be yes. You blinked, running your fingers over the soft velvet of the case and making up your mind. You put the box behind you, tucking it into your waistband, and marched over to where Sarah stood.

“Okay, while Shayne and Courtney was the winning choice, I have something to say.” Celebrations stopped in their place as curiosity overtook the group.

“Listen, Courtney and I have been together for a little over a year and a half but we’ve known each other since we were both Smosh babies.” You held out your hand to your girlfriend and she walked over and took it. You squeezed her hand tightly in your own. “We may both just be two women of Smosh, but right now, I am a woman about to ask the love of her life a very important question.”

You bent down on one knee and pulled the box out from your waistband. “My grandmother gave me this ring right before she passed and told me that I’d know what to do with it. And now that I’m on my knees in front of you, I know I’ve made the right choice.”

Courtney started to cry, all attempts to stop the tears failed as more kept coming. 

“Courtney Ruth Miller, will you marry me?”

“Yes!” She pulled you up from your kneeling position and pulled you in for a kiss. The two of you separated long enough for you to slide the ring onto her finger before you were kissing again. All your friends cheered in the background, Joven going as far as to shout, “Get it, Y/n!”

Courtney laughed and pulled away and walked over to Ian, pulling him up to you. “So, get this though, Y/n,” Courtney held out her hand to Ian who had pulled out a near-identical box that was the same save for the color.

You watched as she got down on one knee. “I’ll only be accepting your proposal if you accept mine!”

Your friends started to scream in excitement, the two teams merging together. You laughed at the hilarity of it all before pulling her up and kissing her once more. “Of course, I’ll marry you.”

Courtney slipped the ring onto your finger and you both held up your hands, showing off the rings to your friends.

Eventually, Matt Raub had to intervene so that the punishment could be filmed while there was still sunlight out. After getting slapped by Olivia, you stumbled off to the side to blink out any holi powder that may have gotten into your eye, even if you were told it was safe.

Once everyone had been slapped, you found your way to Courtney’s side to watch Lasercorn tackle Ian after his slap.

“You know, people are gonna comment on our rings and we haven’t been public at all with our relationship.”

“Well then, I think it’s time we were.” Courtney kissed the side of your head. “Maybe a wedding planning video or a wedding dress shopping vlog.”

“I think that that would be an amazing idea.”

A /N: part two is a possibility with the “wedding footage”

ALSO; reminder that the red light green light survey is still up until tonight!

RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT IS NO LONGER OPEN, BUT 8/1′S SURVEY IS

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Have you ever turned down someone that you’ve liked? I haven’t been in this situation. I’ve had to turn down someone, but I didn’t like them.

When was the last time you were at a loss of what to do? Probably late May when I had *just* finished my thesis and everything felt overwhelming because it was literally the last thing I needed to do to conclude my time in college. Once my final draft got approved I felt pressured to do a lot of things in an instant – get a credit card, apply for social security and a TIN, upload my resumé in a bunch of websites because at that point that felt like the only way to go.

The last time you let someone go, was it to make yourself happy or them? Myself. I just did not blend well with my college blockmates no matter how hard I tried; and whenever I hung out with them I always had to be a little bit fake, and I hated having to do that every time. I found my true friends in my org so at some point I just stopped going out with my blockmates, but I honestly didn’t feel too bad about it because I was happy with my decision and I’m sure they didn’t mind me leaving our little group anyway. 

Who was the last person that could tell something was wrong with you? My mom. She gave me a verbal beatdown but was fine like ten minutes later, but I was no longer ok and was starting to tear up. I pretended to scratch my eyes but she could tell, and asked me “What’s wrong” as if she didn’t abuse me minutes before that. 

Anything bad happen today? I saw my uncle (who is Filipino, but grew up in the US) talking about his trip to Spain earlier this year and used the hashtags #LetsMoveOn #ColonialismSucks. That pissed me the fuck off because he’s a historian and founded an NGO essentially focused on preserving Filipino precolonial culture; and with those bullshit hashtags I just felt my head lose all its braincells at how hypocritical his words were. I don’t understand why he’d campaign for us to move on if he thinks colonialism sucks. I don’t know why he wants anyone to move on if I still have a Spanish surname, he has a Spanish surname, Filipinos still count their money in Spanish, and a big part of our cuisine is based on Spain’s, among other long-lasting effects. I don’t know where he got the audacity to tell his fellow Filipinos to move on if he never even grew up here and was always super sheltered and privileged in America, where he could very easily shield himself from the bullshit happening over here. It’s so dumb and I just rolled my eyes and moved past the stupid Facebook post.

Have you ever thought about online dating? If so, were you desperate? I’ve never considered it. As a demi, it sounds terrifying lol. But Gab and I each have downloaded Tinder on our phones at some point just to people-watch and see what it’s about.

Do you try not to take a lot of medicine or do you take it whenever? The only time I take it immediately is when I have headaches, because I hate them and wanna get rid of them ASAP. Otherwise, I’m not very dependent on medicine.

Are you ever scared of people reading your survey answers? No. I never intended my surveys to have an audience and at the end of the day they primarily serve as my journal and a place where I can vent. The people on here who’ve been nothing but super nice and non-judgey are just a great bonus and make me feel less alone on here.

Do you like cuddling with someone you like? Only if I’m already in a relationship with them. I don’t just give away cuddles lol.

What did you do last night? Hahaha welp I was in a Mood to take surveys last night so I took five, which is more than usual for me. I also watched a couple episodes of Good Mythical Morning and before I went to bed I had an Oreo Cadbury bar.

How frequently do you get fed up of doing a survey and give up before you’ve finished it? It was much more frequent before when I was busy with school stuff, but now I’m able to finish surveys. I don’t like getting my drafts all clogged, so.

Who did you last ride in a car with besides family? Gab, and I drove her home after picking her up from school.

Did you ever join a gym to look hot and get back at an ex bf/gf? I’ve never joined a gym but I have definitely done that thing where you go great lengths to look good so that an ex would feel like shit. Idk, I was 17 and thought going the petty route seemed fun. I had and still have no regrets doing it because it wasn’t my loss anyway lol.

Would you ever go back to your most recent ex? I did.

Has an adult ever allowed you to smoke a cigarette? I mean, my friends are technically adults and most of them don’t mind me smoking...

Run your tongue over your teeth. What do they feel like? Like...teeth? All that happened is that I felt self-conscious because I felt my protruding front tooth lmao so thanks for that.

Does crying mean that you’re weak or you’re just expressing grief? It means you’re expressing emotions, one of which can be grief. < There you go. Also I really hope this question isn’t implying that being weak = bad. It’s healthy to accept and acknowledge that you’ll get weak sometimes.

Wait, I forgot to ask! How are you feeling today? I’m fine but boy is it fucking hot.

[sophygurl]

Dance Apocalyptic: Dystopian Fiction and Media In a Dystopian Age - WisCon 41 panel write-up

These tend to be long to click the clicky to read.

Disclaimers:

I hand write these notes and am prone to missing things, skipping things, writing things down wrong, misreading my own handwriting, and making other mistakes. So this is by no means a full transcript.

Corrections, additions, and clarifications are most welcome. I’ve done my best to get people’s pronouns and other identifiers correct, but please do let me know if I’ve messed any up. Corrections and such can be made publicly or privately on any of the sites I’m sharing these write-ups on(tumblr and dreamwidth for full writings, facebook and twitter for links), and I will correct ASAP.

My policy is to identify panelists by the names written in the programming book since that’s what they’ve chosen to be publicly known as. If you’re one of the panelists and would prefer something else - let me know and I’ll change it right away.

For audience comments, I will only say general “audience member” kind of identifier unless the individual requests to be named.

Any personal notes or comments I make will be added in like this [I disagree because blah] - showing this was not part of the panel vs. something like “and then I spoke up and said blah” to show I actually added to the panel at the time.

Dance Apocalyptic: Dystopian Fiction and Media In a Dystopian Age

Moderator: The Rotund. Panelists: Amal El-Mohtar, E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman, Lauren Lacey

#ReadingDystopiaInDystopia - for the livetweets and comments 

(I think I missed jotting down some introductory stuff as my notes just dig right in - sorry about that!)

Amal talked about how dystopia crosses over into issues of immigration, and Cabell posed the question - “dystopia for whom?”

Lauren discussed teaching Octavia Butler’s Parable series during the November election and then teaching Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale this spring. 

Rotund asked the panelists to define dystopia and mentioned the twitter quote about current generations not being promised a future of flying cars, but rather a cyberpunk dystopia. 

Amal talked about conflating dystopia with post-apocalyptic, but that the two function differently. They can intersect, however. Dystopia is allied with ideas of oppression - the severe marginalization of a large swath of the population.

Cabell added that this kind of dystopia is somebody else’s utopia. People with privilege don’t want to lose it - that’s dystopic for them.

Lauren discussed anti-utopias, such as 1984, where the audience identifies with the people being marginalized. Compared that with a critical dystopia where there is a horizon of hopefulness - such as Parable.

Rotund brought up the positioning of Firefly as allegorical confederacy and asked how do we deal with that?

Cabell answered - fanfiction.

Amal discussed how she had not connected Firefly to the confederacy due to the lack of themes of slavery, particularly child slavery. As a Canadian, that just wasn’t her first go-to when watching it. There were so many other examples of imperial or hegemonic control without the slavery aspect in her mind - specifically Lebanon, where her own parents had fled from civil war.

Amal talked about playing with this iconography of rebellion without the ugly context of the confederacy. There’s something interesting to play with about these heroes who were on the losing side, but she acknowledges that her perspective is different than those from the U.S.

Cabell stepped in and said “hashtag socialist killjoy” but, the themes of colonization in Firefly were there even without the confederacy angle. For example, the heavy Chinese influence of the culture but we don’t actually see any Chinese people. What are the implications of that?

Lauren said that one interesting part of dystopias is getting to identify with the rebels. This can lead to an unthinking identification with resistance - the idea that all power is bad, all government is bad. This constant identification with outsiders can be dangerous. She added that Octavia Butler does a good job with the complexities of these themes in her works.

Cabell brought up prepatory vs. cautionary dystopias. Putting the spotlight on collaborators. 

Amal discussed some of Canada’s issues with how it’s dealt with it’s Indigenous cultures with truth and reconciliation commissions. An issue in Firefly is that we have no idea of any Indigenous life on the planets that are taken over and terraformed. 

In some ways, Firefly reflects America’s colonialism with the frontier themes, but what does that look like without any Indigenous populations? Canada’s attitude for a long time was “well, our treatment of Indigenous people wasn’t as bad as what the US was doing...” and that was a fantasy to make themselves feel better about it.

Rotund pointed out that people like to feel like rebels.This was the foundation of Trump’s campaign. It’s a distressing use of the dystopian narrative.

Lauren brought up Handmaid’s Tale and how despite the complexity of it’s historical notes, there were still problems in the ways many marginalizations were ignored.

Amal talked about the appropriation of resistance terms and used MRA’s use of feminist language as an example. Just as a group is gaining a voice against the powers over them, their language is taken from them and used against them. Then the people in power get to have this fantasy of being the oppressed ones.

She brought up Mad Max as this lone man trying to survive the apocalypse and how unrealistic this trope is - we need community to survive. 

(I have in my notes in the sidebar for the next page or so that I missed a lot that was said so bear with me if some of this seems extra jumpy from topic to topic)

Cabell discussed the Wisconsin cocaine mom laws that sprang up during the 90′s paranoia about crack babies (which it turns out is not even a thing, the affects were due to poverty not drugs). This was highly racialized. In 2014, California was found to be forcibly sterilizing female inmates - mostly women of color. 

The point of this discussion is that we’re already living in the reproductive dystopia. People are in situations where they’re needing to ask themselves how to stay safe in a system that is unsafe for them.

Amal brought up a conversation she’d had that day with a taxi driver when he found out she was Canadian and he immediately started talking about how badly we need socialized medicine here in the U.S. To Amal - the idea that everyone deserves health care as being radical is dystopic! She gets worked up and apologizes and Rotund says - don’t apologize for being mad at dystopias.

Lauren talked about Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time as an example where it’s not just about the privileged suddenly being in a dystopia. There’s a theme of complacency, of not paying attention to what’s happening to others. It’s a cautionary dystopia. 

Cabell brought up the SNL video of white people just in a constant state of screaming until finally there’s 2 black people and one asks what’s happening and the other answers - oh they’ve been this way since the election. 

Amal replied that she noticed a lot of people feeling sort of apocalyptic after the election, but many people of color were more like “oh, it’s Tuesday. Maybe a little more Tuesday than usual but...”

She also talked about how she saw a lot of people from the U.S. saying online that they needed to leave the country, while other people were angry at this notion saying - how dare you leave when we have work to do? Amal, coming from the perspective of her own parents having fled their country, acknowledges that the people in that first group are thinking more about survival. 

Amal found herself agreeing to let friends from the US come and stay with her as needed, while also members of her family were working on taking Syrian refugees in. “You think you’re safe until you’re not” - in Handmaid’s Tale, the main character waited too long to leave. 

[My own thoughts on the anger about people fleeing is that this is primarily directed at people who do have quite a bit of privilege choosing to leave instead of staying to fight for the people who really can’t make that choice. Example: the whole Amanda Palmer thing ugh]

An audience member asked about the common video game trope of going alone into the woods to survive after a dystopic or apocalyptic event. None of the panelists like that type of game. 

Amal really wants a game like that, but about community building. Cabell would pay lots of money for an MMO in that style.

An audience member recommends the game This War of Mine as doing community building well, and asks the question of if the panelists have noticed the need to upgrade security recently.

Amal discussed how she was detained on her way to the states this time and how horrifying of an experience it was. No one did anything particularly bad to her, but it was still awful and invasive. It did make her think both about the idea of state security and “what am putting out online?” 

She talked about how she has always self-censored, and the investment her family has put into respectability politics as a means of survival. She’s now opening up more, and finds that she’s angry all the time “that’s my secret - I’m always angry”. And yet she still tempers her rage and fury because she doesn’t want to lose the support of white liberals. 

Cabell replied to Amal’s experience about being detained and said - sure they all felt bad but they did it anyway. The idea of collaboration and following orders. When laws are unjust, the moral thing can be to break the law. 

She added that the best person to hide undocumented immigrants is someone who has never publicly said that we should be hiding undocumented immigrants, which makes it tricky. The need for networks and cells for this kind of thing.

Amal addressed that the reason the people involved with her detainment were so embarrassed had a lot to do with how she passes, has lighter skin, etc. 

(I have a whole chunk of something I wrote down that Lauren said that I added a bunch of question marks to, so not sure I got it down correctly but it was about how increased need for security has affected academia and the sense of witch hunt-ness involved in people speaking their minds freely.)

An audience member asked about examples in dystopian fiction of that use of appropriated language of the oppression.

Lauren brought up that in Parable, published in 93, the president really used the slogan “make America great again”. Also the Aunts in Handmaid’s Tale use appropriated language.

Cabell talked about another real life example, which was the laws created to protect fetuses and how proponents of it said it would never be used against pregnant women, but it ended up doing just that - specifically against women of color.

Amal talked about the idea of needing to protect men from women’s temptation and said that her story Seasons of Glass and Iron has an example of this. She also talked about how in The Hunger Games, punishment becomes entertainment.

An audience member asked about the appropriation of dystopian language and does this happen because the stories are too vague? How do we protect against this?

Amal answered that you can’t stop people in power from appropriating narratives. But you can become aware of it and try to check it when it happens. (and then a whole thing I sadly missed about exogenous settlers/immigrants)

The panelists wrapped up with some recommendations. 

Lauren: The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi, Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett, and Kate Wilhem’s early stuff.

Cabell: Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott, and a title I did not catch ... something Chronicles by Barbara something (real helpful I know, sorry)  [Edited to add from Cabell: "Darwath Chronicles by Barbara Hambly! Very fantasy alternate universe; not a "realistic" dystopia/post-apocalypse."]

Amal: the song Miami 2017 by Billy Joel and the poem Eighteen Hundred and Eleven

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Inside Look: How Two Teams Share a Social Media Inbox

Only 10% of customer messages are answered on social media.

Yet some brands find a way to answer 100% of requests.

What’s their secret?

Having many hands on deck certainly helps. We’ve found that some of the fastest-responding, maximum-delighting brands on social media employ a two-team approach to responding. Customer support teams handle all inbound product questions, and marketing or community grabs all messages related to the brand, the content, and community love.

We take a two-team approach at Buffer, and we’d love to give you an inside look at our process.

Keep reading for the blueprint on how we manage our social media responses:

1,500 customers helped each week

3,000+ messages sent each week

ASAP response times

We’re able to do what we do on social media with Buffer Reply, our tool of choice for social media engagement. Our playbook and our tool are pretty intertwined, as you’ll see below. If you want to give Reply a look, we have free trials available. We’d love to hear what you think.

The 4 keys to working together in the inbox

Set goals that complement one another

Create automation rules to get messages into the right spots

Pick a team to triage at least twice per day

Reply with a shared voice

Much more on each of these areas below.

1. Goal-setting for social media teams

One of the unique elements of a shared social media response strategy is that you have two teams working in the same area. This makes it all the more important that everyone’s goals are aligned.

In our case, we have a customer support team and a marketing team sharing duties.

We start with the vision. Here’s how each team thinks about the biggest of “whys” on social media engagement:

Customer support’s vision: Set the bar for customer support

Marketing’s vision: Deliver happiness to those who reach out seeking a connection with us.

Can you see a shared theme?

We’re fortunate that our team’s visions fit snugly side-by-side under the banner of CX (customer experience). This didn’t happen overnight. We’ve had many conversations about cross-functional goals, and we definitely see more progress we can make in order to keep perfecting this partnership.

Our advice: Make alignment a priority from the start.

In terms of exercises to help you get there, we employed a couple: HubSpot’s flywheel exercise to find opportunities to maximize delight, the Jim Collins vision framework to create a vivid description, and Julie Zhou’s strategy litmus test to create alignment.

This big-picture vision-setting helps make the conversation about goals even easier. We’ve found that you don’t have to share the same exact number goals across marketing and support as long as you’re aligned on the bigger vision. For instance, these are the numbers we track within each area:

Customer support goals

Conversations — How many unique conversations did we participate in?

Replies sent — How many total replies did we send?

Average first response time

These goals help us track the volume of social media support requests as well as how fast we’re able to respond to that volume. We’ve found that a speedy response is a great way to deliver delight to our customers, and we want to be sure we’re organizing our team in such a way to meet that goal.

Marketing goals

Reaching inbox zero twice a day, morning and afternoon (inbox zero means that all messages in our Community folder have received replies)

Many marketing messages (“Love using @buffer!” or “This blog post from @buffer is so great”) tend to be less urgent in nature. So rather than setting a lofty goal for response time, we prioritize a delightful experience by ensuring that everyone gets a response who needs one.

With Reply, it’s very easy to pull our customer support stats. All Reply plans include robust reporting on your team’s performance in the inbox. We refer to the overview report quite often:

A sample report from a 14-day time period

In addition, there are reports for engagement and individual teammate responses.

The engagement report shows how stats on open conversations and what percentages of conversations receive a reply. We use this data to track response time, volume, and how well we’re engaging with our customers.

The teammate report breaks things down to the individual level, showing the number of conversations that each of your team participates in, as well as the social networks where those conversation occurred.

2. Automation rules to filter social media messages

We would be lost without the automation rules of Buffer Reply.

This is how we take the thousands of incoming messages each week and route them to the appropriate places. It’s how we handle spam, how we filter out non-Buffer “buffer” mentions, and so much more.

Here’s a peek at the many options we have in Reply’s rules settings:

We can automate conversations according to these variables:

Contains

Contains (include links)

Contains only mentions

Begins with

Recipient is

Language is

Type is (Instagram comment, direct message, tweet, etc.)

Is in reply to tweet

And based on those “if” statements, then we can do one of the following:

Move to any folder

Assign to a teammate

Tag with any tag

Set status to “Closed”

We have hundreds of automation rules in place (literally; we add new ones all the time). We have a huge spectrum: large rules that put all comments into our marketing folder, small rules that mark very specific things as spam. If you’re curious about any in particular, please do reach out and we’ll share. Here’s a sampling of five different ones we have in place currently:

Contains #BufferSupport → Move to Buffer Support folder For awhile we were thinking of starting a new support handle. Instead, this hashtag and Reply’s automation rules allow us to easily catch support requests from anyone who uses this hashtag across social.

Contains “Swag” → Move to Community folder Since the marketing team handles swag, we route these conversations to their folder directly.

Type is “Instagram Comment” → Move to Community folder The vast majority of Instagram comments are sharing love and support for us or our content. If any of them do end up being more support-related, the marketing team can easily move them into a different folder.

Recipient is “@BufferReply” → Move to Reply Support folder We have a couple of extra handles reserved for our newer products, so we route any @-mentions of those handles into our support folders.

Contains “Stories Creator” → Assign to Mike Eckstein We have a few one-off projects that get some love on social media. We like to alert the owner of these projects anytime they’re mentioned.

3. Workflows for triage and replies

  How to Triage

A blueprint for prioritizing tweets, comments, and messages that need a reply asap

During especially busy times, a social media inbox might have dozens or hundreds of unanswered messages.

Where do you begin?

Our team begins by triaging.

The first step for triage …

We begin in our Team Inbox, which is the main landing spot for all new messages that have yet to be categorized or filtered into a separate folder. We move conversations manually from the Team Inbox to subfolders, and we have a number of automations that move incoming conversations where they belong.

Triaging is owned by our customer support team. We’ve found that triaging the messages that are in the Team Inbox folder gives us a quick sense of any current themes and emerging issues, and allowing our support team to have their finger on this pulse is extremely valuable.

What if there seems to be some kind of major problem?

If we do spot a major problem — typically multiple reports of serious trouble — we go into Slack, our team chat room, and post a message to our teammates. We have a separate playbook with our customer support plans during downtime and incidents.

Assuming there aren’t any immediate issues, we take the messages in the Team Inbox and manually move each conversation to the appropriate folder. We have a couple main folders:

Product support. We have three folders for our three products: Publish, Reply, and Analyze.

Community. This folder includes any marketing questions, blog post shares, and general #bufferlove.

In addition, we have pop-up folders that exist during particular windows of time. For instance, we created folders for bugs (FB IG Down March 2019) or customer research (IG Connection Trouble).

With Buffer Reply, we save a ton of time on this manual triaging with the quick keyboard shortcuts to move conversations. We type “M” to open up the window of folders, then type the first couple letters of the folder name we want. Voila!

How to perfect the art of like + close

Does every message need a response?

Well, it depends. (Not a great answer, I know.)

There are many different strategies and perspectives on this, and there are a number of different factors that could influence your decision: for instance, the volume of tickets, your social media team’s size, and the type of responses you get.

For us, we do not add a new reply on every message we get. For some messages, we employ a like + close strategy.

On these, we favorite, heart, or like the customer’s message, and we close the conversation, moving to the next one.

We find a number of scenarios when this makes sense for us:

After a good-bye at the tail-end of long back-and-forth threads with a customer

Conversations that are about Buffer but not addressing us directly with a question or invitation to engage

Love. We’re lucky to have conversations where people are sharing their love of Buffer. We try to ‘like’ these, and then add them to the Community folder and assign

Links to our blog content where the text is the same as the headline (If it’s the first time someone has @-mentioned, then we try to add a thank you note in response.)

Here’s how we easily tell in Reply whether an account has communicated with us in the past:

When is a “like” too ambiguous? Sometimes we’ll come across tweets like “I love @buffer, [competitor] was rubbish.” We leave these alone. No “like.” We don’t ever want it to seem like we’re agreeing with harsh opinions about our peers.

4. How we reply to customer messages

Phew! Though it took most of this article to make it to this section, replying to conversations is definitely the bulk of the day-to-day work for social media engagement teams.

Here are some of the rules and product features that we put to good use when building relationships with our customers:

Main workflow

We try to work from oldest to newest to respect the customers who’ve been waiting the longest. This is true for our support team and for our marketing team.

We are friendly, conversational, kind, and empathetic — just as we strive to be in email support, product copy, blog posts, and everywhere else online

One of the key differences to note with social media engagement: these conversations happen in public, and we have character limits to consider. Therefore …

Lean in to being brief and conversational, but not at the expense of clarity.

Leave conversations feeling open. For example, you may say “Let me know how you get on / keep in touch / let us know if anything else comes up.”

For longer conversations, add (1/2) or (2/2) as needed

Lean in to using screenshots, video walkthroughs and FAQ guides to save characters, too

The majority of replying occurs in the folders for product support and marketing. In addition, we have a couple other places to look for conversations.

The Assigned folder contains messages that have been directly assigned to another teammate. These don’t appear in any other folder, so we make a point to check in here each day to make sure nothing’s assigned to a teammate who is out for the day or on vacation. We don’t want customers waiting too long.

We have a Pending folder for our newer automation rules, and we check this folder at least once per day. It’s similar to how you check your email spam folder to make sure nothing real and authentic slipped through the cracks.

Then when it comes to the features of Reply, we find these ones extremely handy for staying organized and working together.

Collision detection

Reply makes it easy to see who else is online with you and may be answering conversations that you were about to open. Even when you’re in a conversation, you can see if others are in there already or are popping by. This helps make sure we don’t send double responses to the same person.

Customer Notes

We use the Note feature within the conversations to communicate with one another and share our thought process, next steps, links to admin accounts, and any other context as needed. These notes appear as callouts within each conversation inside Reply and are never seen by customers.

Saved Replies and FAQ articles

We will sometimes pull a saved reply for common questions. There’s a shortcut for this: clicking on the icon or typing “##” in the composer. The same goes for links to FAQ articles. We can insert these by clicking on the icon or typing “+” in the composer.

And when in doubt, there’s always an undo button. Phew!

Over to you

How does your team handle social media engagement? Any tips that we can try?

It’d be great to hear from you in the comments. We’re also around anytime on social media. Know you know from this post exactly how we’d get back to you!

Thank Inside Look: How Two Teams Share a Social Media Inbox for first publishing this post.

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How to build a better business with B2B social listening

If you’re a B2B brand, chances are you already have plenty on your plate.

However, that’s no excuse to sleep on social listening.

Think about it. Customers and competitors are sounding off like never before on social media, especially in the ever-so-opinionated B2B space.

And so the rules of succeeding with B2B social media are changing. Digging into the data behind your mentions can lead to a treasure trove of insight to help you make actionable business decisions.

That is, if you’re listening.

Want to uncover what exactly what products and features customers want? Looking to get a leg up on your competition? With the help of B2B social listening, those answers are just a few clicks away.

In this guide, we’ll highlight how B2B brands can use social listening to build a better business and how to get started ASAP.

What are the big-picture benefits of B2B social listening?

Some B2B brands might see social media as a black hole when it comes to ROI.

Harsh, but we get it.

Let’s consider how B2B social listening can be a game-changer in terms of what you get out of your social presence, though.

Every interaction and engagement with your customers via social media is a valuable data point. Meanwhile, there’s arguably no better place to conduct competitive analysis and track industry trends.

Rather than treat social media like a time-sink, treat it as a place to gather business intelligence. Below are some key ways that B2B social listening does exactly that.

Make better sense of your shout-outs

People don’t take the time to tag you for no reason.

Maybe they have something to say about your customer service. Perhaps they have feedback on a particular product or feature.

Either way, B2B social listening helps put those mentions into context.

For example, this shout-out from a satisfied Sprout customer reinforces the fact that our customer support team is crushing it.

If you want to know whether or not a new feature or roll-out will be well received, social media is a great place to gather unfiltered feedback. For example, Skype recently reintroduced its “Away” status feature which resulted in a flurry of different responses from followers.

The takeaway? Behind every @mention notification is some sort of sentiment or feedback your business can learn from and act on.

Keep up with call-out culture

Like it or not, we live in a call-out culture online.

Customers and critics are anything but shy on social media. For B2B brands, call-outs for poor customer service, bad product experiences and pricing concerns can be particularly painful for your reputation.

Ignoring these sorts of mistakes is obviously a bad look. Likewise, you’ll oftentimes see competing products recommended in social call-out threads where your name is being dragged. Heck, sometimes competing brands might even swoop in to sound off, too.

Brands are expected to own their mistakes even when they aren’t even necessarily making, well, mistakes. Take for example Slack’s recent logo change which received a somewhat mixed reaction from customers.

Although many customers absolutely adored the new design, there was some pushback as well. Slack managed to respond diplomatically to each call-out and, at times, even took the comments in jest.

And on the flip side, Slack also managed to show love to customers who were supportive of the change.

Reality check: you need to be prepared to deal with the good and the bad when it comes to your mentions. Call-out culture isn’t going anywhere, which is why B2B social listening is so important for maintaining a positive relationship with your customers and industry at large.

Give customers exactly what they want

Want to know what products, features and services that your customers want?

Look no further than the social space.

Whether it’s current customers or prospects, people are constantly asking for recommendations via social to figure out which brands deserve their business.

And if someone is thinking about bouncing to a competitor, you need to take the time to understand why.

Social listening can help highlight the unique selling propositions of your own business in addition to your competitors. Having a pulse on both is crucial to your marketing and positioning moving forward.

Conduct more comprehensive competitive analysis

Speaking of competitors, B2B social listening makes it so much easier to keep an eye on your competition.

For example, monitoring industry-specific hashtags can help you understand what terms and types of content are resonating with your audience. Here’s a snapshot of a hashtag and keyword report from Sprout Social, highlighting branded and industry tags alike.

Consider also that not all conversations surrounding your business are happening on the likes of Twitter or LinkedIn.

Through comprehensive online social listening, you can assess what brands are being talked about on networks like YouTube which are hotbeds for B2B discussion that you may have been overlooking. This again highlights why brands need to not only track keywords for their business, but also take a holistic approach to B2B social listening that spans a variety of sources.

Target your prospecting efforts

As noted, social listening isn’t solely about your current customers: it’s about finding new ones as well.

You already know that your customers are on social media, right? Contacting them directly about your product is totally fair game, especially in the era of social selling and account-based marketing.

How to come up with a B2B social listening strategy

Just like anything else in the marketing world, you can’t just “wing” social listening.

There’s so much information to sift through and plenty of networks to cover.

If it all seems daunting, don’t panic quite yet.

Below is a breakdown of how you can come up with a B2B social listening strategy that makes sense for your brand.

Pick your priority networks

There’s no denying that there’s a lot of noise in the social space.

That’s why you need to focus on your social listening on places the most important conversations about your business are happening.

In terms of B2B social listening, Twitter and LinkedIn are typically considered the “big two.”

Why, though? For starters, Twitter represents a massive customer service channel. If there’s anywhere that customers are going to shout you out or raise a concern, chances are it’s Twitter. Also, many B2B brands and influencers use Twitter threads as an opportunity to sound off on industry happenings.

That said, LinkedIn is crucial to your B2B listening strategy. Given that a staggering 80% of B2B leads come from LinkedIn, you quite literally can’t afford to ignore the undisputed professional social network.

Beyond acquiring leads, LinkedIn offers a place for B2B brands to flex their influence. For example, let’s say you’re part of a “best of” listicle or you have customers highlighting your awesome new product on LinkedIn. These are the sort of valuable interactions that cement you as an industry player yourself.

Don’t neglect “secondary” social conversations

Some of the most important conversations surrounding your business are happening where you might not even be looking

Once you’ve locked down your mentions and tags on your priority network, take the time to dig through additional social sites to see what folks are saying about your brand.

For example, Quora is a popular place for consumers to pit brands against each other. It’s totally fair game to respond to such queries yourself, although many B2B brands don’t capitalize on these conversations.

The same rings true on Reddit. Although responding directly as a marketer might be discouraged, Reddit is a fantastic place to gather real-world industry insights beyond your marketing bubble.

Also, think about the conversations happening on B2B-specific sites such as Growth Hackers. If you’re invested in content marketing or fellow B2B brands see you as an industry leader, you need to be able to leverage those mentions.

Listen beyond your brand name

If you’re just listening to your brand name, you’re inevitably hindering your B2B social listening efforts.

For example, you need to monitor product or industry-specific keywords related to your business. These sorts of queries are what’s going to lead you to prospects and conversations where you can make your brand known.

The same logic rings true for hashtags. Signaling your own content as part of a larger conversation, hashtags can also clue you in on what content your competition is creating.

Take advantage of a social listening tool

Obviously, there are a ton of networks and conversations for your business to sift through.

Rather than do it “by hand,” let a B2B social listening tool do the legwork for you.

Specifically, Sprout’s social listening features allow you to monitor the critical conversations about your business and deliver in-depth analytics that put them into context. With the help of our query builder, you can search specific brand mentions, keywords and hashtags that pop up throughout the social space. Oh, and this also includes those “secondary” networks like Reddit.

With analytics including search volume, engagement and sentiment analysis, you can take a data-driven approach to tune up your marketing campaigns. This ensures that your social presence grows while also improving your sentiment among customers and prospects. Sounds like a win-win, right?

And with that, we wrap up our guide!

Are you on board with B2B social listening?

Listen: the B2B space is crowded. Anything you can do to cut through the noise to determine what your customers want is a huge plus.

With the help of B2B social listening, you can do exactly that.

From emerging trends to improving relationships with your customers and beyond, social listening can clue you in on what your next marketing moves should be. Any B2B brand should make social listening a priority, especially when there are social listening tools out there such as Sprout that can do most of the work for you.

We want to hear from you, though. What are you doing to listen to your customers and competitors? Where do you think the most important conversations in your industry are happening? Let us know in the comments below!

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How Inbound Marketing is Like the Game of Monopoly

The recent announcement that the Monopoly game will no longer include the thimble token got me thinking.  Over 4 million Monopoly fans voted which game tokens to keep or discard.  The thimble token has been around since 1935.  It is the first time in the game’s history that the future of the game was crowd sourced.  There are over 300 versions of the game and recent variations include a cashless version using bank cards and electronic banking. 

Jonathan Berkowitz, Senior VP of Marketing for Hasbro Gaming said “We’re always listening to our fan base. They’re very engaged with the brand, especially on Facebook. We want them to continue to weigh in with ideas.” The final results of the contest are not going to be announced until Mar 19 by Hasbro; additional pieces may be retired and new token pieces, like the hashtag and emoji’s, may be added. 

So, if a board game that has been around for almost 100 years can adapt and use social media and crowdsourcing to increase interest in the game, what else can be learned?

Strategy & Luck

You may believe that a board game, like Monopoly, only requires luck or chance to win.   While luck and chance certainly plays a part (just like in real life), having a strategy to win increases your odds.  You may think a game like Monopoly can’t teach you anything about content marketing, but I have a few insights to make you think differently.

The thimble token is perhaps a symbol of “outbound” marketing techniques.  Not many people use thimbles today as fewer people sew.  Similarly, cold calling, tv advertising and other outbound techniques that do not tailor the message according to the audience are favored less by today’s modern marketers. 

You may also believe the game is purely a game of chance.  However, the wise player should have a strategy for playing the game.  Just like you should have a well mapped out strategy for your inbound marketing.  The blog content you write, social media posts and which channels are used must be carefully thought out and the message crafted to appeal to your target market on those channels.

Your website is like a game board where all the pages, including blog posts, are potential areas where visitors may land.  Keeping a visitor on your site with engaging content that answers their needs is like a killer game of Monopoly where the excitement builds until the last roll of the dice.

Free Parking

Many Monopoly players have house rules where cash is added to Free Parking and taxes and penalties paid by players is added to this fund.  Landing on Free Parking and getting a quick infusion of cash may allow you to develop properties sooner. 

In the marketing world, creating a viral post or video is like landing on Free Parking.  Having a plan for what to do with the 15 minutes of fame is important before it occurs.  That way, you can harness the traffic to lead them to the next step preferred by your brand.

On the other hand, there is no such thing as “free parking” in the marketing world.  All of your social media channels should perform for you or be eliminated.  There is no point in having a social media presence without having conversations with individuals.  Having a social media presence and not actively engaging on it is a waste of resources.  All the content you produce should fill a need or answer a question your customers have during the buying journey.

Buy Properties

A common strategy in Monopoly is to buy as many properties as possible.  Buying properties in Monopoly is like creating content in marketing.  The different property color groups are like different personas or different stages the customer may be in on their buying journey.  As a marketer, you want to cover the whole board to reach all your potential customers at every step of their journey.

Don’t Buy Utilities

Buying Electric Company and Water Works is useless or equivalent to throwing your money away.  In marketing, I would liken this to Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising without having a definitive strategy behind it.

Get Out Of Jail

In the game, at the beginning you should get out of jail as quick as possible until you have established a monopoly.  After all, you want to be a part of the action while the land grab is going on.  Once you have some properties, you can collect money while you are in jail.

The inbound marketing equivalent of jail is any activity that will cause Google to penalize your website.  Black hat SEO tactics will land your site in Google “jail”.  After all, if potential visitors can’t find your website on SERP, then you are not going to get as many customers or dollars coming into your business. 

It will take time and several trips around the board to get a monopoly.  It also takes time to see the results of your content creation efforts and white hat SEO optimization.

Keep a Few Hundred Bucks on Hand

Once you have a monopoly, mortgage everything to build as many houses and hotels.  However, keep some cash on hand.   It is extremely bad form to get elected Chairman of the Board or land on a property and have to sell back a house to pay the rent. 

Having cash on hand in monopoly is like having evergreen content already written.  It is there for you when you need it.  Got an important project deadline or meeting with an important client, deploy the evergreen content to keep the content flow consistent.

Get 3 Houses per property ASAP

Getting 3 houses on a property significantly boosts the amount of rent collected.  For example, the rent for Illinois avenue jumps from $300 for two houses to $750 for 3 houses.  The exponential increase in rent is similar to the effect of having an inbound marketing strategy working for you.  Each element in the marketing mix is working together to attract visitors to your website, convert them as leads and close them as customers.  You customer fans then leverage all your work to promote your brand; thus delivering higher revenues. 

Investing in 3 houses will pay off in increased rents like killer content continues to draw new visitors sometimes years after it is created.

For more information on how your company can use Inbound Marketing to attract and convert more customers, contact Paveya today!  Visit our blog for more marketing insights you can use. 

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10 Insights Twitter Analytics Tools Should Reveal to Your Brand

By now, most brands use Twitter analytics tools of some sort. Whether it’s for analyzing Tweet performance, monitoring hashtags or other data, measuring your Twitter marketing efforts is a necessity.

There are a ton of articles out there listing the “best Twitter analytics tools,” but here’s the thin–it doesn’t matter which tool you use if you don’t understand how to analyze the data. If you can’t turn your data it into actionable steps that will help you achieve your goals, what’s the point?

So in this article, we’re not going to list 100 different Twitter tools. Hopefully, you’ve already chosen one. And if you haven’t, go ahead and sign up for a completely free trial of Sprout Social ASAP. Instead, we’re going to look at the insights you can get from your Twitter analytics tool, and show you how to use your data to grow your business.

Here are 10 insights Twitter analytics tools should reveal to your brand:

1. Is Your Audience Growing or Shrinking?

Has your follower count been pretty much the same for the past few months? Are you losing as many followers as you’re gaining? Did you see a sudden spike in your follower count one day last week?

These are the types of questions you can answer by monitoring your Twitter analytics.

Many brands make the mistake of solely looking at their follower count number and just wait for it to go up. But in order to get actionable insight from your follower count, you need to go beyond treating it as a vanity metric. Instead of just looking at the number, dig into your analytics to understand why your Twitter follower count is growing or shrinking.

With Sprout’s Twitter Audience Growth report, you not only see the number of new people that followed you, but also a breakdown of your “net followers.” When your follower count is barely increasing, check this report to understand if there are fewer people following you, or if you’re just trading old followers for new.

If you’re losing around the same number of followers as you’re gaining on a monthly basis, it’s a sign you’re having an issue with follower retention. In other words, people are following you but aren’t captivated enough to stick around.

The moral of the story is don’t just fixate on your follower count. Look for trends in your audience’s growth and use your findings to adjust your strategy for audience growth or retention.

2. Who is Your Audience?

Twitter gives you a great deal of demographic data about your audience. Beyond just age and gender, Twitter breaks down your followers by geo and even some psychographic data as well.

The more you understand about your audience, the easier it’ll be to share relevant content with them. You might have an idea in your head of who your audience consists of, but your Twitter analytics tool will give you actual data.

A quick and easy way to put this information to use is through your visuals. People like to see themselves in the content they consume. Use photos in your Tweets that reflect the demographics of your audience. So if your main demographic is females interested in Startups, you could use photos in your Tweets that contain women working in a startup-type office.

3. What’s Driving Traffic?

Let’s be honest. All your Tweets aren’t going to bring massive waves of traffic to your website. Luckily Twitter analytics tools can help you identify which Tweets result in people actually visiting your site.

With tools like Sprout Social, you can see data such as link clicks and even add UTM tags to your Tweets for more details.

Don’t just stop at identifying which Tweets generate the most traffic. Take a look at those Tweets, and specifically look at:

The topic: What link did you share? Was it a an article related to a trending topic, how-to guide or something funny?

The time: The reason your Tweets might not be getting clicked might be because nobody’s seeing them. Make sure know the best times to post to Twitter so most of your followers will likely see it. You can also use our ViralPost feature to automatically send Tweets at the optimal time.

The copy: Don’t underestimate the power of the text you use in your Tweets. The right copy can mean the difference between getting clicked and being overlooked.

The image: If you have Twitter cards setup on your site, you should have an image included in your Tweets like the example below. For your Tweets driving the most traffic, take a look at the images that accompany them. Are there any common themes among them?

NEW: The Complete Guide to Video Content Marketing on Social https://t.co/GbDtUILm3X by @brentwrites pic.twitter.com/47KGKVjyxb

— Sprout Social (@SproutSocial) August 30, 2017

Study all four of these elements and look for common themes among your most clicked Tweets. Hopefully you’ll spot some trends that you can replicate onto your other Tweets.

4. Is Your Twitter Strategy Working?

You’re Tweeting, trying to connect with new people and investing plenty of time into Twitter. But is any of it actually working?

After you’ve defined your goals, use your Twitter analytics tool to track your progress. For instance, if your goal is to build awareness for your brand, you can monitor metrics like impressions or share of voice for certain keywords. If you wanted to drive more traffic from Twitter, you’d track referral traffic. Read guide below to learn which Twitter metric to monitor for your goals.

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5. Which Influencers Should You Engage With?

Influencer marketing is one of the most popular tactics for growing a social following and getting in front of your target audience. While a lot of brands tend to associate influencers with YouTube or Instagram, Twitter also has plenty of potential for influencer marketing.

With Twitter’s algorithm and thousands of Tweets being sent every second, organic reach has become a commodity. While influencers certainly aren’t immune to this, they still tend to get more reach and engagement than the average brand. Borrow some of their influence by partnering up or doing a promoted campaign with them.

The first step will be to identify influencers to work with. With our Twitter analytics tools, you can see your most engaged influencers. These are people with large followings that have recently engaged with your Tweets.

Use this information to jumpstart your Twitter influencer marketing campaign. Since they’ve engaged with your brand at some point, there’s some level of familiarity which makes your initial outreach less cold. You can lead with the fact that they’ve Retweeted or replied to one of your Tweets. Then open up the conversation to working together.

Keep in mind that just because they’ve engaged with you in the past, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’ll automatically be open to working with you. But with this approach, at least you’re not starting from scratch.

6. What’s Working for the Competition?

Competitive research is one of the best ways to get ideas for your own Twitter strategy. Analyzing what successful competitors are doing can give you amazing insights your brand can use to achieve similar results.

However, don’t use this as an invitation to straight copy and paste what other brands are doing. You’re looking for inspiration, not someone to replicate.

To start, use your Twitter analytics tool to run a competitive analysis report. Make sure you’re using competitors that have an active Twitter presence.

Beyond that report, you’ll also want to do a deep dive into their activity. Take note of things like:

How often do they Tweet?

What days of the week do they Tweet?

What type of content do they share?

Which Tweets get the most engagement?

7. Who Are Your Top Advocates?

We talked about using Twitter analytics tools to identify influencers, but you can also use it to find your brand advocates. Advocates are people that willingly promote your brand. Unlike influencers, they’re already familiar with your products and promote your company without compensation.

Since advocates don’t always work directly with your brand, it’s easy to take them for granted or not even know who they are. Use your analytics to find out who your advocates are. Sprout has a report that lists the people most frequently mentioned with your account, which makes a great starting point.

Beyond that, start to take note of people who constantly mention your brand. Sprout’s contact view and engagement history will help you keep track of conversations you’ve had in the past with other users, which makes it easier to spot people that have been consistently advocating for your brand.

Once you’ve identified your advocates, start building a relationship with them. You could even consider building an advocate program, similar to our All Stars community.

8. Are Your Twitter Ads Worth the Money?

If you run Twitter Ads, you need to keep a close eye on how your ads are performing. The last thing you want to do is waste money on ads that don’t perform. Twitter provides analytics for your ads that allow you to track clicks, impressions, conversions and other metrics important to your campaign.

Analyze your data to not only see which ads are failing, but also to spot opportunities to improve campaigns. For instance, if one of your ad sets is performing exceptionally well, consider doubling down or applying your learnings from that ad set to your underperforming ones.

In some instances, you might find that Twitter Ads simply aren’t delivering the ROI you hoped for. If that’s the case, you’ll have to decide whether you want to try to better optimize your ads or allocate that money elsewhere. Taking time to look through your Twitter analytics tool can save your brand money and even increase your ad performance.

9. How Do People Feel About Your Brand?

Twitter is well known for being the platform people use when they want to voice their opinion. Whether it’s politics, food or in this case, your brand, people aren’t shy about letting you know how they feel on Twitter.

While that level of unfiltered honesty might not seem very appealing, the reality is it gives you real insights into how people feel about your brand. Better yet, it gives you an opportunity to resolve issues with upset customers and reward your top advocates.

The next question is how do you extract this information?

Depending on which Twitter analytics tool you use, some may have sentiment analysis of some sort, while others (like Sprout) allow you to tag incoming Tweets. For tagging, you can categorize Tweets about your brand based on sentiment such as positive, negative or complaints.

Then, look through your data to get a pulse on the general feelings towards your brand. If you notice an overwhelming amount of negative Tweets or complaints, look for ways to address the issue. If a majority of the Tweets are on the positive side, use it as an opportunity to foster and grow your community. For instance, you could highlight a “customer of the week” or reward your top advocates with exclusive deals and prizes.

10. Are You Engaging or Broadcasting?

Without a doubt, one of the biggest mistakes brands make with Twitter is using it purely to promote their own content. Every Tweet is to an article on their site, and they rarely ever engage with their audience.

However, that’s not what Twitter is for. In fact, that’s the complete opposite of its original purpose. Twitter was initially built as an internal messaging system. Then the team realized it had use outside of their inner circle and it eventually became one of the top social networks in the world.

The point is, Twitter is a platform for conversation, not constantly spamming followers with your latest articles. Luckily, you can use Twitter analytics tools to track how well you’re balancing conversation with broadcast-type messages. Here’s a look at what our Twitter Publishing Behavior report looks like, which breaks down your Tweets by type.

For clarification, “Conversation” refers to Tweets where you’re mentioning another user, and “Updates” are Tweets sent to your entire audience. Ideally, your Tweeting behavior will sway more towards conversation than updates. That means you’re using Twitter to engage with your audience and build relationships.

Put Your Twitter Analytics Tools to Use

Twitter analytics tools aren’t just for collecting data. At the end of the day, you need to analyze the data you collect and use it to improve your strategy and get closer to your goals.

If you’ve made it this far and realized that your current tool doesn’t give you half of the insights we’ve outlined, request a demo of Sprout Social to see what you’re missing out on.

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#SproutChat Recap: Dealing With Internet Trolls

One beautiful thing about social media is that it allows customers to instantly interact with their favorite brands. Unfortunately, that easy-access also means that those brands are open to becoming the target of trolls: angry users hurling inflammatory language or even threats across social.

All savvy social media marketers should understand how to distinguish feedback from trolling, so in this week’s #SproutChat we’ve covered best practices for handling internet trolls and how a plan of action is vital for any brand.

Don’t Feed the Trolls, but Do Ask Questions

It’s critical not to stoop to their level. Responding angrily to your audience or being heavy on the snark is just adding fuel to the fire. It may not be worth your time and effort to go toe to toe with an angry customer. Instead take the time to figure out the context of their complaint in order to help them.

A1: The first DO would be DON'T answer them.. #SproutChat

— Apple Box Studios (@AppleBoxStudios) August 9, 2017

A1: Do: Respond…and be nice. Don't: Ignore…the person will only become angrier. #sproutchat

— Netvantage Marketing (@netvantage) August 9, 2017

A1: Don't add fuel to the fire. Do push them to move the conversation to a private forum. #SproutChat

— Mindvolt (@mindvolt) August 9, 2017

A1: DO have a plan in place so when it happens you don't panic! #sproutchat

— Charlotte S. Price (@_CharlotteSP_) August 9, 2017

A1: You need to distinguish: troll versus actual problem. Then follow a process. #SproutChat

— Kevin Juliano (@KevinJJuliano) August 9, 2017

A1: Gauge the convo before responding…If they seem like a REAL consumer/client w/ REAL concerns, respond #SproutChat

— Max Bailey (@maxthemarketer) August 9, 2017

1: Don’t feed them. And ignore at your own risk. Use mute and block at will. #SproutChat

— Mehul 🙂 (@mehulgohil) August 9, 2017

Keep Track of Negative Comments

By keeping track of negative comments you’re more easily able to note patterns. This means that if the same users are providing negative feedback, you’ll have insight into their conversation history to inform your next moves.

Monitoring for mentions of your brand is also vital for staying on top of any social crisis.

A2: Screenshot folders are a great tool! Although I'd try to resolve and move on ASAP, maybe check in later. #SproutChat

— Mindvolt (@mindvolt) August 9, 2017

A2 Make sure you have an official process/policy in place. Keep track via docs and spreadsheets. Screenshot if necessary. #SproutChat

— Cristy (@lacristysalinas) August 9, 2017

A2: We have a spreadsheet and sometimes have screenshots as well. #sproutchat

— Netvantage Marketing (@netvantage) August 9, 2017

A2: Use a platform where you can organize tweets by hashtag or user. #SproutChat https://t.co/wxUH56ncAl

— Robert Warren (@robofthunder) August 9, 2017

A2) Tag and code them. Work on legitimate issues for root cause fixes and track trends.#sproutchat

— Steve Cassady (@SteveCassady) August 9, 2017

A2: Monitor mentions of your brand by keeping track of replies and by searching your brand name. You won't always be tagged! #SproutChat

— Express Writers (@ExpWriters) August 9, 2017

A2: We tag them all then do an audit at the end of every month to determine what action should be taken to help us improve. #SproutChat

— Jeff Higgins (@ItsJeffHiggins) August 9, 2017

Loop Others In

Occasionally you’ll need to escalate issues to other team members, as you won’t always know the answer. Situations can quickly turn into crises, so be sure to loop in appropriate team members in order to keep issues from escalating.

A3 Escalations happen if it's a real issue. Maybe the site was down and customer had a bad experience and blasting social. (1/2) #SproutChat

— Cristy (@lacristysalinas) August 9, 2017

A3: If the issue is something I can't fix I pass it on. If it's something against my actions (as SM manager) I pass it on #sproutchat

— Charlotte S. Price (@_CharlotteSP_) August 9, 2017

A3: When a solution is outside of your sphere of ability. #sproutchat

— ICF Olson (@ICFOlson) August 9, 2017

A3: We do 3 strikes then bump. Offer apology. Get information on issue. Offer resolution. If these won't solve it, bump.#SproutChat

— Jeff Higgins (@ItsJeffHiggins) August 9, 2017

A3 When I'm not equipped with the right answer or necessary info, I escalate it to someone who can. #CustServ #SproutChat

— Katie Burton (@KatieBurton_) August 9, 2017

Inflammatory Language Not Welcome

Not every social network allows for comments to be deleted, but when possible take the precaution to do so. It’s important to act if there are posts containing personal information or inflammatory, threatening language.

Depending on if they're offensive or not, sometimes it's important to leave them as it's authentic #sproutchat

— Mollie Clarke (@mollieblog) August 9, 2017

A4: I will delete comments in our FB group if they're against our guidelines (profanity, name-calling, etc.) #sproutchat

— Jessie (@JessieAtAC) August 9, 2017

A4: Typically, a negative comment would only be deleted if it was offensive in some way. #SproutChat

— Express Writers (@ExpWriters) August 9, 2017

A4: Usually not, as long as they don’t violate policy and aren’t offensive. Need to be authentic and own mistakes. #SproutChat

— Kevin Juliano (@KevinJJuliano) August 9, 2017

A4: Negative? no. Inflammatory, yes. Honest critique should always be allowed! #SproutChat

— Charlotte S. Price (@_CharlotteSP_) August 9, 2017

A4: Most of the time if not a legitimate issue. Can't believe how people want to add political comments to vacation pages! #sproutchat

— Brad Lovett (@Brad_Lovett) August 9, 2017

Have an Action Plan in Place

When it comes to responding to trolls or negative feedback, just make sure that all team members are on the same page. This is particularly important if you have a larger social team. Consistency will help prevent growing social crises and ensure that everyone knows protocol and works toward one goal.

Everyone business should have a company procedure, to protect and guide its staff #sproutchat

— Mollie Clarke (@mollieblog) August 9, 2017

A5: ABSOLUTELY! We use the @usairforce Web Posting Response Assessment as our guide. #SproutChat https://t.co/1WLHrvRNeb pic.twitter.com/U0Hchd7Vbh

— Kevin Juliano (@KevinJJuliano) August 9, 2017

A5 Absolutely! A consistent plan of attack is essential. Have a strike policy with messaging to explain moderation actions. #sproutchat [AR]

— ModSquad (@modsquad) August 9, 2017

A5: the plan should layout different courses of action for different levels of trolls #SproutChat

— Apple Box Studios (@AppleBoxStudios) August 9, 2017

A5: Yes, for business and personal accounts. Leaders in big orgs can be targeted by trolls, too – prep them! #SproutChat

— Meg Hogan (@meghogan0) August 9, 2017

A5: If you have multiple social media managers, yes. Including a guideline of steps to take would be so helpful for that. #SproutChat

— Mindvolt (@mindvolt) August 9, 2017

Be sure to join #SproutChat next Wednesday, Aug. 16, with our special guest, Sprout All Star Jasmin Bollman of Rebel.com, to chat about Social ROI. Until then, check out our Facebook community to connect with folks in the industry.

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