Social Watch is a
dedicated channel in
the Virtual Desktop, you might see it in your exercise if your facilitator has enabled it (it requires a special license)
There are two views of Social
Watch
1. Columns view - all
watchwords at a glance
2. Expanded view - one column
expanded for more details.
Available actions
| Add watchwords In the Virtual
Desktop, go to the Social
Watch channel. Click the + icon
and type the term you want to
monitor across social
media. Click the + icon
again to add additional
columns. You can use AND and OR operators for advanced watchwords: - virus AND vaccine - virus OR vaccine |
| Set up
alerts When adding a new column, after selecting the watchword, turn on the switch in Trending alert is on. Then customize the trending criteria. When the trending criteria are met, an alert pop-up window will appear. |
| Research
profiles Click on any
username in the Social Watch
column (in blue), to open that
persona
profile. Participants can
research the nature of the
profile by observing: - Verified
account - Number of posts
published - User handle - Bio - Account creation
date - Posts (images,
text and links to
websites) - Following and
followers, which can be
clicked to research each
persona's social graph (if
your licence allows it). |
| Filter Each column can be
filtered by channel and by
sentiment. |
| Monitor
influencers In each column, in the
section "Authors", you can
list all authors (personas,
role-players and any content
contributor) that have used
the watchword. You can filter this
view by channel and sort by
the number of followers,
following, messages and
alphabetically. |
| Generate word
cloud In each column,
click on the cloud icon to
generate a watchword-related
word cloud. You can hover over
each popular word to see the
number of
mentions. |
Search Click on the magnifying glass in each column to search for specific words in each watchword feed. | |
Expand To expand each column: 1. Click on the
graph icon 2. Click on the
increase icon To go back to column
view: 1. Click on the
decrease icon 2. Click on the list
icon |