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  • INTERVIEW: Big Data Horrors and Highlights with Jeff Jonas

    Want to protect yourself from social engineering scams? Don’t just train yourself. Analyze Big Data. Every wonder how the Las Vegas casinos brought down the MIT card counting team?  They consulted Big Data. How do Wall Street traders figure every millisecond they speed their trading algorithms makes them $100 million more a year? Two words.…

  • How Social Media Training Can Help You Make a Difference in the World

    Sixty-two percent of companies have no social media education program, yet developing one remains a top priority according to industry research. Got what it takes to help us tap into this exploding market opportunity? Revenues for the self-paced eLearning industry in North America were $21.9 billion in 2011 and that number is set to hit…

  • How to Teach Social Media to Business Leaders: Interview with Jeanne Meister

    Jeanne Meister is co-author of The 2020 Workplace book  and Partner of Future Workplace, a firm  provides executive education to HR leaders and high-potential managers to build the skills and capabilities needed for success in the workplace of the future. Her Generational IQ™ Program helps human resource professionals gain new insights into how working with multiple…

  • Why Social Media Policies Don’t Work

    As social media matures from a marketing to a mainstream communications channel, organizations need to look beyond social media policy if they want employees to use it effectively and responsibly at work. If organization’s want to leverage the value of social media, they must engage at scale through the broadest possible constituency.  An amazing social…

  • The Dirty Little Secret about Social Media Policies

    Social media policies are certainly useful when an employer needs to take disciplinary action against and employee for misconduct. But they don’t help employees use social media effectively or responsibly. At least not most employees. And that’s because few people actually read corporate policy. And if they do, even fewer understand what they’re reading.

  • Social Media Legal Issues at Work

    Heather Bussing (@heatherbussing), California employment lawyer discusses Social Media’s Real Legal Issues.  Ms. Bussing is a labor and employment law specialist with 25-years experience.   In this episode, she explains why social media policies are not the best way to manage what employees can and cannot say on social media, Section 7 of the NLRA…

  • Homeland-Embassy Social Media Strategy

    In this post, I’m going to walk you through a social media strategy concept known as the homeland-embassy approach. It’s an idea shared first by Steve Rubel, though I’m not sure he meant to take it as far and as literal as I’m going to here, but the basic gist is that your website is…

  • How Sodexo Uses a Mobile App to Recuit Talent [PODCAST]

    Social media recruiting at Sodexo Careers involves much more than just a Linkedin presence and a blog. Under the guidance of Arie Ball, VP of Talent Acquisition, the Sodexo social media recruitment strategy encompasses the Sodexo Jobs mobile app, nearly a dozen managed communities tailored to specific job tasks and branded social media accounts on…

  • Sourcing and Screening Talent with Social Media [PODCAST]

    Social media for recruiting best practices, using social media for recruiting and sourcing and screening candidates with social media are discussed in this episode by guests Steve Levy blogs at The Recruiting Inferno and Tom Bolt who blogs at Make HR Happen.   LISTEN: [AUDIO:http://ontherecordpodcast.com/pr/otro/electronic/Social_Media_for_Recruiting.mp3]