Define: Social CRM

Social CRM is a philosophy and a business strategy, supported by a technology platform, business rules, processes and social characteristics, designed to engage the customer in a collaborative conversation in order to provide mutually beneficial value in a trusted and transparent business environment. It's the company's response to the customer's ownership of the conversation.

Define: Proprietary Content

Almost any textual content your organization stores such as:

• instant message chat logs
• customer service and support transcripts
• internal documentation

Any proprietary data can be imported into the Collective Intellect Social CRM Insight platform.

Contact us about mapping your data to the ci-insight format. info@collectiveintellect.com

Define: Snippet

Snippets are subsets of a posting based on your specified search criteria.
These snippets enable you to more accurately capture consumer sentiment across any topic, theme, dimension or term.

Define: Blog

Websites that have an RSS feed (people can subscribe to them), and they are personally authored.

Define: Message Board

Forums or threaded conversations where one person can comment, and anyone can view the comment and respond back.

Define: News

Online news, includes WSJ, NY Times, Local News, etc

Define: Social Sites

Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn.

Define: MicroBlogs

Twitter, where content is limited to 140 characters.

Define: Social Media

"Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media use web-based technologies to transform and broadcast media monologues into social media dialogues." more from wikipedia here