E-consultancy Launch New Event: "Digital for HR Professionals"

E-consultancy announce their first HR training event 'Digital for HR Professionals', February 13th, 2008.

[ClickPress, Tue Jan 15 2008] The event will bring together experts from HR and Resource Management, social media and legal professions to share their insights, experience and views on how the growth of digital channels, web 2.0 technologies and websites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube and blogs impact recruitment, company internet usage policies and staff learning and development.

The end of 2007 saw the total number of UK social networks users grow to 25million* and staff, competitors and recruitment agencies increasingly harnessing the power of social networks, blogs and other forms of User Generated Content. But, 2007 was also the year of a corporate backlash against social networks as many businesses blocked work access to the likes of Facebook and MySpace and disciplined staff for time-wasting.

The event will look at some of the legal and corporate issues for businesses but also aims to provide HR professionals with useful ‘social media’ tools and tips to help with recruitment, internal communications and corporate reputation building.

Expert speakers will include LinkedIn, the world’s most successful business professional social networking site, with 17 million users, and Schillings, a leading law firm specialising in the reputation of individuals, corporate and brands.

Craig Hanna, Training Director at E-consultancy, said: “HR professionals are often tasked with sourcing digital staff training and creating staff social media usage policies. Our experience is that many HR staff use the Internet as consumers but need advice about the digital industry and the impact that it has on their business from a legal, recruitment and PR perspective is not being offered to them as a specific audience.”

“This event is specifically for HR professionals. We will be using examples and case studies to demystify the terms and technology and to help them make informed decisions about staff internet usage policies, recruitment using web 2.0 tools and digital skills training.”
Key topics that will be covered at the event include:
• A whirlwind tour of the web and what all those words mean
• The questions to ask when buying digital training
• Beyond the CV: how social media can help identify potential candidates and provide additional personal and professional information
• Staff and corporate reputation management – understanding potential HR issues when staff use Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, blogs and forums
• Legal and ethical guidelines for you and your employees and the advantages of creating a social media usage policy or guidelines
• HR digital case studies

Training event URL: http://www.e-consultancy.com/knowledge/events/1595/digital-for-hr-professionals.html

Media contacts:
Michelle Goodall, Online PR Consultant, E-consultancy
(e: michelle@e-consultancy.com t: 020 7 681 4092)

Chris Lake, Editor, E-consultancy.com
(e: chris@e-consultancy.com t: 0207 681 4052)

About E-consultancy

E-consultancy is an online publisher of best practice internet marketing reports, research and how-to guides. E-consultancy, which was named Publisher of the Year at the 2006 AOP Awards, also publishes buyer’s guides and has a directory of 100,000+ third party internet marketing white papers. Since moving to a paid-content model in 2003 E-consultancy has amassed thousands of paying subscribers, 58,000 registered users and 145,000+ unique user sessions per month (audited by ABC Electronic).

*Source – www.comscore.com November 2007

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