Technology for HR: A Legal and Practical Guide for Managing E-Mail, Intranets & Social Media

Celeste Blackburn, Author
Ralph Gaillard, Editor
Margaret (Molly) M. Dibianca, Contributor -- See Full Product Details Tab to learn about your contributors.

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.

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.

Armed with instant-access online information 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.
• And more! See the Full Product Details tab or the Components tab for more information.

Technology for HR: A Legal and Practical Guide for Managing E-Mail, Intranets & Social Media

Celeste Blackburn, Author
Ralph Gaillard, Editor
Margaret (Molly) M. Dibianca, Contributor -- See below to learn more about your authors and editors...

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.

 
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.

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.

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!

Your Technology for HR Creators:

Celeste Blackburn, Author
Celeste Blackburn is the Managing Editor of HR Insight, Diversity Insight, and Resources for Humans for M. Lee Smith Publishers. She has written about human resources for a variety of publications, including "Basic Training for Supervisors" and "Frontline Supervisor". She writes and edits for M. Lee Smith Publishers’ series of white papers. Before coming to M. Lee Smith Publishers, she was a reporter for The Daily Herald in Columbia, Tennessee, where she focused on business and community features. Celeste earned her bachelor’s degree from David Lipscomb University and a master’s from Middle Tennessee State University.

Ralph Gaillard, Editor
Ralph Gaillard is the Executive Editor of HR Insight. For nearly 20 years, Ralph has worked in the training and publishing fields, specializing in new product launches and the design and management of professional development programs. Ralph has worked for various information publishers, including Lawrence Ragan Communications, a leading provider of corporate communication information and training.

Early in his career, Ralph worked for the Chicago Tribune as an editorial researcher and at The Washington Post as the staff researcher for National News.

Ralph has edited several industry-specific books, including "Ragan’s Almanac of Top Intranets," "Integrating Print & Online: The Communicator’s Guide to Using E-mail, the Intranet and Print to Reach Employees," "FMLA Complete Compliance" multimedia training tool, and "Workplace Investigations: The HR Manager’s Step-by-Step Guide".

Margaret (Molly) M. Dibianca, Contributor
Margaret (Molly) M. DiBianca maintains a legal practice consisting of equal parts litigation and client counseling. She represents employers in a variety of industries in employment rights claims, discrimination matters, and equal employment disputes at the state and federal court level. She defends employers against claims brought by former and current employees and assists employers with enforcing restrictive covenants.

She assists clients with internal investigations, wage-and-hour reviews, and employment-practices audits. Molly also counsels employers in the facilitation of reasonable accommodations and strategies for compliance with federal leave laws.

Molly regularly provides in-house training to managers and supervisors as part of her preventive-practices philosophy. She is a frequent speaker and teaches best practices to human resource professionals, executives, and in-house counsel. Molly is a monthly contributor to the Delaware Employment Law Letter and maintains ongoing employment-law commentary at the Delaware Employment Law Blog (www.Delaware-EmploymentLawBlog.com). She is a regular contributor to the Technology for HR Blog.
 

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

Technology for HR's integrated features create the ultimate tool for using social media to HR's advantage:

• Hiring and Screening. You'll learn how to put online technology to work to streamline your applicant screening and hiring process.
• Recruiting. You'll get the latest tricks of the trade for using social media to recruit the very best of the talent pool.

• Monitoring Employees. How far can you go to monitor employee online activity and e-mail? We'll fill you in on important technological -- and legal -- considerations.
• Keystroke Monitoring Software. What's available and the pros and cons of software designed to keep tabs on employee electronic communications.
• Updates. We'll give you the latest legislative developments on how the courts are ruling when it comes to the employer's right to monitor employees.

• Mobile Technology. You'll learn how to merge laptops, smart phones, cell phones and other mobile technology into one efficient HR machine.
• Real-world Guidance. You'll get plain-English guidance on how to use e-mail, intranets and social media to your organization's advantage.
• Multi-Media Compliance Guidance. You have access to the latest issues impacting social media in the HR world, on-demand and on your schedule.

And Finally...

• Streamlining HR. You'll learn how to use social media and other technology to ease HR administrative headaches and cut down  on unnecessary paperwork.
• PLUS: You'll learn how to use wikis, podcasts, and other new tools to stream line HR procedures, how to implement a realistic electronic workplace policy, and much, much more!