This document discusses social customer relationship management (CRM). It defines social CRM as focusing on understanding, anticipating, and responding to customer needs using social data to create mutually beneficial relationships. It emphasizes listening to customers, connecting with them, and engaging them on social media. It provides examples of how social CRM can benefit customer service, marketing, and sales functions. Specifically, it finds that social CRM can increase spending and productivity for these functions. Finally, it presents principles for effective social CRM, including listening, connecting, and engaging customers on social platforms.