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name: social-media-management
description: Manage social media strategy, content creation, community engagement, influencer partnerships, paid social, and performance analytics. Use when developing social media strategy, planning content calendars, managing communities, running paid social campaigns, or analyzing social performance. Triggers on phrases like "social media strategy", "social content", "community management", "influencer marketing", "paid social", "social listening", "social analytics", "content calendar", "engagement".
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# Social Media Management & Community

Build brand presence, drive engagement, and grow communities across social media platforms.

## Workflow

### 1. Social Media Strategy

1. **Platform strategy and selection**:
   - Platform assessment by target audience presence
   - B2B platforms: LinkedIn (primary), Twitter/X, GitHub, YouTube
   - B2C platforms: Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube
   - Platform role definition (awareness, engagement, support, recruitment)
   - Resource allocation by platform priority
   - Emerging platform evaluation and testing

2. **Content strategy by platform**:
   - Content pillars definition (education, entertainment, inspiration, advocacy)
   - Platform-specific content format optimization
   - Content mix: original, curated, user-generated, promotional
   - Posting frequency and optimal timing by platform
   - Content calendar development and management

3. **Community strategy**:
   - Community goals and KPIs definition
   - Community guidelines and moderation policy
   - Engagement approach (proactive vs reactive)
   - Community ambassador and advocate identification
   - Crisis management protocol for social media

### 2. Content Creation & Publishing

1. **Content development process**:
   - Content ideation and research (trends, audience interests, competitive)
   - Content brief creation (objective, audience, platform, format, CTA)
   - Copywriting following brand voice guidelines
   - Visual content creation (graphics, video, carousel, story)
   - Content review and approval workflow

2. **Platform-specific optimization**:
   - LinkedIn: professional tone, thought leadership, long-form posts, articles
   - Instagram: visual-first, Reels, Stories, carousel, IGTV
   - Twitter/X: concise, real-time, conversational, thread format
   - TikTok: authentic, trending audio, quick cuts, educational/entertaining
   - YouTube: long-form educational, product demos, customer stories
   - Facebook: community building, events, longer content

3. **Publishing and scheduling**:
   - Scheduling tool configuration (Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout Social)
   - Optimal posting time scheduling by platform and audience
   - Real-time posting for trending topics and newsjacking
   - Content approval and quality gate before scheduling
   - Publishing error monitoring and alert

### 3. Community Engagement & Moderation

1. **Proactive engagement**:
   - Daily community monitoring and response
   - Engagement targets by platform (response time, interaction rate)
   - Conversation starter and topic seeding
   - User-generated content encouragement and curation
   - Influencer and partner collaboration engagement

2. **Reactive engagement and support**:
   - Customer inquiry response protocol
   - Complaint and negative comment handling
   - Crisis response escalation framework
   - Social support ticket handoff to support team
   - Response template library (with personalization)

3. **Community management**:
   - Community growth strategy and tactics
   - Community event planning (AMA, live Q&A, challenges)
   - Member recognition and rewards
   - Community health monitoring (sentiment, activity, retention)
   - Community insights and feedback collection

### 4. Paid Social Advertising

1. **Campaign strategy and planning**:
   - Objective definition (awareness, engagement, traffic, conversion, lead gen)
   - Audience targeting (demographic, interest, behavior, custom, lookalike)
   - Budget allocation by platform and objective
   - Creative strategy and testing plan
   - Campaign calendar and flight planning

2. **Campaign execution and optimization**:
   - Ad creative development and platform specification compliance
   - Ad copywriting and A/B testing
   - Bidding strategy optimization (CPM, CPC, CPA, ROAS)
   - Audience testing and refinement
   - Daily performance monitoring and optimization

3. **Performance analysis and reporting**:
   - Campaign-level performance reporting
   - Platform comparison and ROI analysis
   - Creative performance analysis
   - Audience performance analysis
   - Budget reallocation recommendations

### 5. Social Analytics & Listening

1. **Performance measurement**:
   - Engagement metrics (likes, comments, shares, saves, clicks)
   - Reach and impression metrics
   - Follower growth and audience demographics
   - Conversion and attribution tracking
   - Platform benchmark comparison

2. **Social listening and insights**:
   - Brand mention monitoring and sentiment analysis
   - Competitor social media analysis
   - Industry trend and conversation monitoring
   - Audience insight generation
   - Content opportunity identification

3. **Reporting and optimization**:
   - Weekly performance review
   - Monthly social media report
   - Quarterly strategy review and adjustment
   - Annual social media assessment
   - ROI measurement and attribution

## Templates & Frameworks

### Content Calendar Framework

```
SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT CALENDAR — May 2025
==========================================

CONTENT MIX TARGETS:
  Educational: 40% (tips, how-tos, insights)
  Engaging: 25% (polls, questions, interactive)
  Promotional: 20% (product, event, offer)
  Advocacy: 10% (customer stories, testimonials)
  Cultural: 5% (trending, timely, social cause)

POSTING SCHEDULE:

  Platform    | Frequency | Best Times     | Content Focus
  ------------|-----------|----------------|----------------
  LinkedIn    | 5/week    | Tue-Thu 8-10AM | Thought leadership, industry insights
  Twitter/X   | 7-10/day  | M-F 9-11AM, 1-3PM | Real-time, news, engagement
  Instagram   | 1/day     | M-F 11AM-1PM   | Visual stories, Reels, behind-the-scenes
  YouTube     | 2/week    | Tue/Thu 10AM   | Educational content, demos
  TikTok      | 3/week    | Mon/Wed/Fri 6PM | Quick tips, trends, authentic

CONTENT THEMES BY WEEK:
  Week 1: Product deep-dive series (educational)
  Week 2: Customer success stories (advocacy)
  Week 3: Industry trends and insights (thought leadership)
  Week 4: Engagement campaign (polls, Q&A, UGC)

HASHTAG STRATEGY:
  Branded: #[BrandName], #[BrandCampaign]
  Industry: #[IndustryHashtag], #[TopicHashtag]
  Trending: [rotating based on weekly trends]
  Maximum: 3-5 per post (platform-specific)
```

### Social Listening Alert Framework

```
SOCIAL LISTENING MONITORING FRAMEWORK
======================================

MONITORING CATEGORIES:

BRAND MENTIONS:
  Keywords: [Brand name], [product names], [executive names], variations
  Platforms: All major platforms + forums + news
  Alert frequency: Real-time for negative, daily digest for neutral/positive
  Action: Respond within 2 hours (negative), 24 hours (neutral/positive)

COMPETITOR MENTIONS:
  Keywords: [Competitor names], [competitor products], comparative terms
  Alert frequency: Daily digest + real-time for major announcements
  Action: Competitive intelligence capture, response opportunity identification

INDUSTRY CONVERSATIONS:
  Keywords: [industry terms], [trending topics], [regulation changes]
  Alert frequency: Weekly digest
  Action: Content opportunity identification, thought leadership positioning

CRISIS TRIGGERS:
  Keywords: [crisis terms: lawsuit, scandal, data breach, complaint]
  Alert frequency: Real-time always-on
  Action: Crisis team notification, response protocol activation

SENTIMENT THRESHOLDS:
  Positive: >70% positive mentions (normal)
  Watch: 50-70% positive (monitor closely)
  Alert: <50% positive (investigate, respond)
  Crisis: <30% positive or >50% negative (activate crisis protocol)

REPORTING:
  Daily: Brand mention volume, sentiment score, top conversations
  Weekly: Trending topics, competitor activity, content opportunities
  Monthly: Share of voice, sentiment trend, audience growth
  Quarterly: Comprehensive social listening review and strategy update
```

## Integration Points

- Social media management (Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout Social, Sprinklr): Publishing, scheduling, analytics
- Social listening (Brandwatch, Talkwalker, Meltwater): Mention monitoring, sentiment analysis
- Paid social platforms (Meta Ads, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, TikTok Ads): Paid campaign management
- Content creation tools (Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud, Loom): Visual content development
- Community platforms (Discord, Slack, Circle): Dedicated community management
- CRM platforms: Social lead tracking and attribution
- Analytics platforms (Google Analytics): Social traffic and conversion tracking
- Influencer platforms (Aspire, Upfluence): Influencer partnership management

## Edge Cases

- **Social media crisis or viral negative content**: Activate crisis protocol; pause scheduled content; unified response across platforms; executive approval for all responses; legal review of sensitive topics; post-crisis review
- **Platform algorithm changes**: Monitor reach/engagement impact; adjust content strategy; test new format recommendations; diversify platform presence; avoid single-platform dependency
- **Influencer partnership issues**: Contract compliance monitoring; content approval before publishing; brand safety monitoring; crisis plan for influencer controversy; relationship management
- **Global audience with cultural sensitivity**: Regional content adaptation; cultural review by local team; sensitive topic monitoring; localized crisis response
- **Platform ban or account suspension**: Appeal process execution; alternative communication channel activation; community notification; preventive compliance review

## Output

### Social Media Dashboard

```
SOCIAL MEDIA PERFORMANCE — April 2025
=======================================

OVERALL METRICS:
  Total followers: 487,200 (↑ 3.2% this month)
  Total reach: 2.1M (↑ 8% this month)
  Total engagement: 124,300 (↑ 5% this month)
  Overall engagement rate: 3.4% ✓

PLATFORM PERFORMANCE:

  LinkedIn:
    Followers: 142,800 (↑ 4.1%)
    Avg engagement rate: 4.2% ✓
    Top post: Industry insight article — 12.4K engagements
    Follower demographics: 67% B2B decision makers

  Twitter/X:
    Followers: 98,400 (↑ 2.1%)
    Avg engagement rate: 2.8%
    Top post: Product announcement thread — 8.7K engagements
    Impression share: 1.2% in category

  Instagram:
    Followers: 156,200 (↑ 3.8%)
    Avg engagement rate: 3.9% ✓
    Top post: Reel — tutorial series — 23.1K engagements
    Story completion rate: 78%

  YouTube:
    Subscribers: 89,800 (↑ 5.2%)
    Avg view duration: 3:42 (62% of avg video length ✓)
    Top video: Product demo — 45.2K views
    Watch time: 124,300 hours

COMMUNITY HEALTH:
  Sentiment: Positive 78%, Neutral 17%, Negative 5% ✓
  Response rate: 94% of comments (avg response time: 1.8 hours)
  Community growth: +1,847 new members this month
  Active community members: 23% of total

PAID SOCIAL:
  Total spend: $47,200
  CPM: $8.40 | CPC: $0.67 | CPA: $23.40
  ROAS: 3.2x ✓
  Conversion rate: 4.1%
  Top performing ad: Lead gen carousel — ROAS 4.8x

CONTENT PERFORMANCE:
  Posts published: 187 (34 LinkedIn, 56 Twitter, 30 Instagram, 8 YouTube, 2 TikTok)
  Best performing type: Educational Reels (avg engagement: 8.3%)
  A/B tests completed: 12 (winners implemented: 9)
```

## Trigger Phrases

"social media strategy", "social content", "content calendar", "community management", "influencer marketing", "paid social", "social listening", "social analytics", "engagement rate", "social media management", "platform strategy", "social posting", "social campaign", "social ROI", "brand mention"