Are you the sole community manager or social media practitioner for your company? It can be tough to go it alone. Here are 5 tips to help make life easier where you wear multiple social media management hats.
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5 Tips for the Solo Community Manager or Social Media Practitioner
1. 5 TIPS FOR THE LONE WOLF
COMMUNITY/SOCIAL MEDIA
MANAGER
2. 1. SET UP YOUR COMMAND CENTER
Monitoring tools are your friend
Password management
Multiple access points (laptop, mobile, etc)
3. 2. ADVOCATE FOR YOURSELF
If you need
something, ask
Claim your seat at the
table of decision-makers
Share your successes
Track your metrics to
prove your worth
4. 3. TRAIN COWORKERS TO HELP
Create a formal
training program
Create internal
policies and
procedures
Be the go-
between if
necessary
5. 4. HAVE “SUB PLANS”
Schedule for absences
Save up topics for
others to post on your
behalf
6. 5. DISCONNECT,
OCCASIONALLY
Go somewhere
without internet or
phone service!
Editor's Notes
When I was a school teacher and was out sick, I had “sub plans” for the substitute teacher.Nowadays I have written instructions for substitute chat manager, co-admins on the FB account who I trust with canned qotd, scheduled blog posts for known absences