How to Create an Online Policy for Staff and Students
September 28, 2009
You arrive in the office on Monday morning, ready to meet your staff to discuss the week’s projects.
All is fine until you learn that an employee accessed sensitive information to create a video now available on YouTube.
Thousands of people watched the video in the past two days, including local media who called to ask for a comment.
There’s whispering outside your door, which tells you that other employees also know and wonder what’s next.
Articles warning you about this type of online high jinks have appeared in newspapers, but until now, you didn’t consider it a priority. “Maybe I’ll add a sentence about online practices in the employees manual,” you said to yourself but forgot just as quickly.
What happens now? How to you bring the current problem to a satisfactory end and create a policy that stops security breaches before they start?
Executives at corporations, universities, and non-profit organizations find it difficult to create and distribute online policy rules to employees, students, and volunteers. But such a policy is mandatory and required to keep private information away from sources that can inflict permanent harm.
What’s at risk?
A comprehensive, yet easy-to-manage program, which I developed for several clients and reveal in my presentation, Who Put Us on YouTube? and Other Online Sabotage You Can Stop immediately puts your plan for curtailing avoidable breaches into action.
At the end, you’ll understand problems occurring now at facilities just like yours and solutions to stop violations before someone makes your private information public.
Contact me at 973-279-2799 or Email me through the contact page to bring this insightful and timely seminar to your conference, meeting, or event.
Back to School Includes You, Too
September 9, 2009
Now that school has started for millions of children and young adults worldwide, is it also time to extend and enhance your own education?
Traditional schools are a familiar option. In my area, 12 community colleges and universities can be reached by car in times between five minutes and one hour. But these schools aren’t always accessible, especially if you’re a busy entrepreneur. Thankfully, more options exist.
What business owners want to achieve today is concentrated learning to understand technology, increase their software knowledge, and expand skills specific to their industries.
This is also my focus. Frequent travel to speak in regions outside of my home state leaves me little time to sit in a classroom. Like many of you, I enjoy the face-to-face interaction as well as the networking opportunities with like-minded people before and after class. Time simply does not allow for the traditional environment.
Education centers that increase and expand your knowledge are available online, and most times, the courses are free of charge. Here’s where I find great classes.
HP offers eight learning categories, including home office, photography, Microsoft office products, and graphic arts.
These non-credit classes are led by an instructor but are self paced so that you can learn each lesson on your own schedule. There’s also a forum for each class where you can interact with other students.
Courses, videos, articles, and tutorials come together in Sony’s BackStage 101 Learning Center.
Although the four categories listed focus on and around technology, you can apply desktop, video, and more courses to all areas of your life.
U.S. Small Business Administration
Here you’ll find 10 categories of business, marketing, finance, and other topics essential to your success.
According to the site, each course requires registration (it makes sense that the SBA gathers statistics) and will only take 30 minutes of time to complete.
Now you know about three online portals where you’ll advance your skills and have no excuse to not go to school.
Conference, college, and company meeting planners frequently request my business and educational topics for their employees, students, and association members. Contact me through this page or call 973-279-2799 to schedule a seminar or workshop. It’ll be one of your easiest events and also one that the audience will always remember.
