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Facebook … Twitter … Blogs … Apps … eRecruiting … if you have questions about the use of emerging technology in the workplace, you’re not alone! To tame the technology tiger and get the most value out of new social media tools, smart Human Resources professionals have a new information, advice, and decision-making resource: Technology for HR: A Legal and Practical Guide for Managing E-mail, Intranets & Social Media

Combining an easy-reading manual with customer-only online resources, this comprehensive service delivers guidance on controlling technology abuse and turning it to your organization’s advantage. You get:

The Technology for HR manual: Over 300 pages of must-know information on how to harness technology to gain a competitive advantage, while avoiding legal missteps.
Technology for HR Online, the excluisive source for up-to-date sample policies, solutions to your immediate challenges, and news on the latest technology opportunities, legal risks, and user experiences. Available to purchasers only.

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Technology for HR Armed with this practical information resource and easy-to-use sample documents, you’ll be ready to:

Develop workplace policies that take advantage of new technologies while dodging new legal pitfalls
Stop employee time-theft that comes from runaway use of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites
Use the latest electronic communication tools to inspire performance, attract new talent, and deliver employee benefits more efficiently
Use video resumes to add the best new team members, without risking a discrimination claim, or worse
Keep key employees in the loop outside of normal work time via 3G and 4G mobile devices, without running afoul of wage and hour laws.

Technology for HR: A Legal and Practical Guide for Managing E-mail, Intranets & Social Media provides plain-English advice for mastering the latest tools:

E-mail

How HR can use e-mail
Practical tactics for using e-mail
The basics of writing a business e-mail
Connecting the C-suite
Quick documentation
Distribute notices
Essential workplace tips for e-mail

Intranet

What is an Intranet?
How HR can use this tool
Practical tactics for using your Intranet
Workplace directory
Electronic handbooks
Forms
Posting benefits
Social networking, blogging, and wikis
In case of emergency
Debate and discussion
Training
E-bulletin board
What an Intranet looks like
Essential workplace tips for your Intranet

Mobile Technology

What is mobile technology?
How HR can use this tool
Practical tactics for using mobile technology
There’s an app for HR
Don’t forget texting
Distracting devices
When employees can’t disconnect
Music
What mobile technology looks like
Essential workplace tips for mobile technology

Blogs

What is a blog?
How HR can use this tool
Practical tactics for using blogs
Essential workplace tips for blogs

Microblogs

What Is a microblog?
How HR can use this tool
What a microblog looks like
Essential workplace tips for microblogs

Social Networks

What are social networks?
How HR can use this tool
Connect employees and improve productivity
Recruiting and hiring
Socializing with customers
What social networks look like
Essential workplace tips for social networks

Wikis

What is a wiki?
How HR can use this tool
Where to begin
Making the most of your wiki
When employees go too far
What a wiki looks like
Essential workplace tips for wikis

Online Videos and Podcasts

What are online videos and podcasts?
How HR can use this tool
Podcasting
Online videos
What online videos and podcasts look like
Workplace tips for online videos and podcasts

RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

What is RSS?
How HR can use this tool
Essential workplace tips for RSS

Recruiting and Hiring

Putting technology to work
Recruiting & Hiring
The Internet
Social media
Blogs
Intranet
Virtual interviews
Video resumes

Retention, Engagement, and Productivity

Telecommuting
Teambuilding with social media
Print on demand
Video conferencing
Disabled digital access
No desktop needed
Internet search engines
Performance reviews

Training

Technology skills assessment and training
Using technology to train employees

How to Sell Tech Investments to the CFO and CIO

Why does HR have to sell the C-Suite on technology?
Practical tactics for making the sale to the C-Suite
Talking the talk
Preparation essentials
Speak for the users
Dollars and sense
Teach them well
Cutting-edge may be too sharp

Technology’s Legal Issues and Challenges

Practical tactics for dealing with technology’s legal issues and challenges
Harassment
Discrimination
Defamation
Workplace violence and technology
When your employees think they are it pros
Tech ergonomics
Wage and hour issues
Productivity drain
Texting (or talking or web surfing) and driving
Trade secrets and confidential information
Security breaches
Copyright infringement
FTC regulations
Workplace tips for legal risks and challenges

Electronic Data Issues

Practical tactics for dealing with electronic data issues
Standard document retention
Metadata: an essential part of record retention
E-discovery
E-mail: privacy, retention, and evidence issues
Document retention
Essential workplace tips for electronic data

Electronic Workplace Policies

Practical tactics for drafting an electronic workplace policy
Your equipment, your connection, your rules
E-mail policy pointers
Electronic communications on the go
Blogs and social media: creating a policy for employees
Policy for online recruiting
Essential tips for electronic workplaces

Up-To-Date Guidance at Technology for HR Online
To make sure you stay on top of new HR technology, you have access to Technology for HR Online. This service, only available to Technology for HR purchasers, keeps you current with the latest news, trends, laws and regulations affecting how you manage workplace technology. It’s loaded with sample policies, reports, podcasts, video, and other useful management tools.

Bonus: Sample technology policies for your workplace
Download prepared policies from the exclusive Technology for HR Online website. Each sample policy is ready for you to customize to your workplace manual format, or simply copy and paste into your paper and electronic communications. You get policies for:

E-mail use
Intranet use
Using social media tools in the workplace
Protecting employer data
Protecting company equipment-desktops, laptops, cell phones
Texting using cell phones/smart phones
And more!

Just $297 for the 300-page Technology for HR manual and a full year of access to Technology for HR Online

Buyers Benefit: To keep you current with the very latest technology developments affecting HR, your purchase automatically enrolls you in the Technology for HR Online annual renewal program. Each year, you'll receive an invoice for 12 months of continued access to Technology for HR Online. You may cancel at any time.

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