Trillions of e-mails travel each year through corporate networks€”and they're not all work-related. But for organizations wishing to protect themselves from liability, e-mail is no longer the only danger€”they now have to contend with blogs, social networking sites, and other new technologies. Packed with electronic rules, step-by-step guidelines, sample policies, and e-disaster stories, this revised edition of The e-Policy Handbook helps readers: implement strategic electronic rules €¢ prevent security breaches and data theft €¢ safeguard confidential company and customer information €¢ manage new and emerging technologies €¢ write and implement effective policies €¢ train employees Updated to cover new technologies, including instant messaging, social networking, text messaging, video sites, and more, this is a comprehensive resource for developing clear, complete e-policies.

The e-Policy Handbook: Rules and Best Practices to Safely Manage Your Company's E-mail, Blogs, Social Networking, and Other ElectronicCommunication Tools

Business & Money

Flynn, Nancy

Business Culture

Amacom Books

Regulating company e-mail and Internet usage isn't a "big brother" tactic. These days, it's just smart business. 
That's because trillions of e-mails travel each year through corporate networks- -and they're not all work-related. From off-color jokes to pornographic images, from software pirates to eBay addicts, digital abuse has left companies wide open to liability risks, security breaches, and productivity nosedives. 
The most effective--and least used--way for a company to protect itself is by developing clear, comprehensive e-policies. And this completely thorough, up-to- date, and readable e-policy survival kit will make it easy. 
Packed with step-by-step guidelines, sample policies, and e-disaster stories, THE E-POLICY HANDBOOK helps readers: Realize the magnitude of e-risks * Understand cyberlaws * Gauge the vulnerability of their organization * Purchase protective cyber-insurance * Write and format top-notch e-policies * Train employees about on-line policies * Draft an e-crisis communications plan, and more.

The E-Policy Handbook: Designing and Implementing Effective E-Mail, Internet, and Software Policies

Computers & Technology

All companies rely on e-mail as a critical business tool, but few have considered the policies and systems necessary to safeguard their interests. Important information including transaction details, trade secrets, and confidential documents contained within messages are business assets with serious legal and financial implications. If an organization is to be safe, it needs a practical system for handling everything that comes into-and leaves-its computers. A toolkit for protecting any company's electronic capital, E-Mail Rules shows how to: 
* Use technology, policy, and employee training to minimize the loss of data * Create enterprise-wide retention rules for the saving and disposal of messages * Gain control of transmission and ensure a secure electronic environment * Develop strategies for related technologies like instant messaging, list serves, and online chat 
E-Mail Rules shows readers how to maximize the effectiveness of their organizations' e-mail systems, and put an end to lost or compromised information.

E-Mail Rules: A Business Guide to Managing Policies, Security, and Legal Issues for E-Mail and Digital Communication

Kahn, Randolph

Management & Leadership

Instant Messaging is a powerful business communications tool, but it can get companies into a big mess - quickly. The "Instant Messaging Handbook" addresses the potentially costly legal, regulatory, productivity, security, training, and management challenges that IM brings to the workplace. This timely guide offers workable solutions for establishing and enforcing rules and policies, controlling IM content, deploying security and monitoring technology, maintaining employee productivity, and maximizing the business potential of IM technology. A best practices toolkit for workplace IM usage, the "Instant Messaging Handbook" will help employers keep their organizations out of harm's way, while giving employees access to a cutting-edge, productivity enhancing tool.

Instant Messaging Rules: A Business Guide to Managing Policies, Security, and Legal Issues for Safe IM Communication

Education & Reference

According to Fortune magazine, online journals known as blogs--short for web logs--are "a force business can't afford to ignore." With 9 million U.S. bloggers currently operating, and an astonishing 80,000 new blogs appearing daily, companies must quickly devise ways to take advantage of this new tool while protecting themselves from legal liabilities as well as critical or defamatory remarks. To complicate matters, the threats aren't all external. Consider the employee who reveals confidential company information on his personal blog. Or even the official corporate blog that misrepresents the company's finances. Blog Rules is a best-practices guide to establishing the blog-related policies and procedures businesses need. Readers will learn how to: 
* legally and ethically regulate employees' personal blogs that mention the company * protect trade secrets and other proprietary information * manage the legal and business exposure associated with corporate blogs * respond swiftly and effectively to blog assaults against the company--and much more.

Blog Rules: A Business Guide to Managing Policy, Public Relations, And Legal Issues

Marketing & Sales

What to do with all those old pairs of blue jeans? They no longer fit, or they’re no longer fashionable, but somehow you just can’t bring yourself to toss them away. Jeaneology is the solution. From cool flapper skirts and hair bands to laundry bags and handbags, Jeaneology features 25 innovative sewing projects aimed at turning boring old blues into hip fashion news. From clothing to accessories to great gift ideas, the projects inside all have detailed step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations that make sewing easy, even for the beginner. Packed with full-color photos of the finished projects, and fun sidebars on jean trivia and history, Jeaneology is the ultimate craft book for a girl and her blues.

Jeaneology: Crafty Ways to Reinvent Your Old Blues

Zest Books

Bible Songs All Year Long

Creative Team Publishing

The Social Media Handbook is a comprehensive risk and compliance management toolkit that walks employers step-by-step through the process of developing and implementing effective social media policy and compliance management programs that are designed to minimize―and in some cases prevent―social networking and web 2.0 risks and other electronic disasters. 
Throughout this important resource Nancy Flynn (an internationally recognized expert on workplace social media) offers a guide to best practices for creating safe, effective, and compliant electronic business communications. The book contains a thorough review of the risks inherent in employees' social media use and content and explores how organizations can help manage behavior, mitigate risks, and maximize compliance through the implementation of strategic social media compliance management programs. These programs combine written policies, supported by comprehensive employee education and are enforced by proven-effective technology tools. Once these policies and programs are in place employers can safely take advantage of the marketing and communications benefits offered by social media. Covering a wealth of material, the book includes vital information on topics such as social media and the law; managing records and e-discovery compliantly; regulatory compliance; privacy and security; blog risks and compliance rules; mobile devices drive social media risks; a seven-step plan for social media policy and compliance management; conducting a social media audit; creating social media policies; content rules and compliance; policy compliance and education; reputation management; and more. In addition to addressing pertinent topics on risk management, the book contains cautionary, real-life social networking disaster stories that show how organizations can lose revenue and reputations, reveals how employees can lose jobs, and explains how individuals can face public humiliation. The Social Media Handbook is a hands-on guide written for human resource professionals, information technology managers, legal professionals, compliance officers, records managers, and others who need to manage today's technology tools with up-to-date employment rules.

The Social Media Handbook: Rules, Policies, and Best Practices to Successfully Manage Your Organization's Social Media Presence, Posts, and Potential

Human Resources

Pfeiffer

From PR nightmares to security breaches, electronic business communication tools and technologies are fraught with potentially costly risks for business. Organizations need to develop online tool policies in order to avoid legal issues and alleviate confusion among employee. The ePolicy Toolkit is a complete resource to help HR Professionals recognize and manage risk, develop policies, and train employees around social media and other online communication tools. Written in a readable style without legal jargon, this covers the key legal, regulatory, and technical issues, including online writing tips, electronic rules and policies, risk control, electronic business records management, and best practices for training managers and employees.

The ePolicy Toolkit: Social Media, Mobile, and Messaging Management Facilitator's Guide Package

Skills

E-mail is very much an integral part of business communication today. Originally intended as a productivity-enhancing, time-saving tool, e-mail has evolved into a time-consuming, productivity-draining obligation that takes up much of our time and attention during business and personal hours. E-MAIL MANAGEMENT was written to help you regain control of e-mail. The 50 tips in this book will help you learn how to manage your inbox, use Microsoft Outlook's time-saving features, limit your personal use, and incorporate productivity-enhancing policies in your workplace.

E-Mail Management: 50 Tips for Keeping Your Inbox Under Control (CRISP FIFTY-MINUTE SERIES)

Software

Crisp Pub Inc

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