Social Media CRM & dashboards are NOT ready for Prime Time

The focus of many companies who have now jumped into Social Media efforts has been to work out their strategy and tactical implementation but the tool sets they have to manage them aren't finished being built. Social CRM and Social Media dashboards are still in the development stage. No one has it right yet. Well, almost no one. It's not that they're not trying, the problem stems from what their perception of the requirements of what is needed by the consumer. Each approaches it from a different 'starting point" so the functionality, although similar, isn't quite the same. Let's take a look at CRM and Social Dashbaords separately & you'll see what I mean.

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