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Social Media Awareness Training
This Social Media Awareness Training course raises awareness of the risk of using social media and how using these platforms inappropriately can have severe consequences. It touches on social media policies and confidentiality when using social channels. This course can be used by all levels of employees across all industry sectors and provides a printable certificate upon completion.
4.6/5 based on 90 course reviews
Learning outcomes
- Understand the risks surrounding social media
- Understand the importance of following your organisation's social media policy
- Understand why you should never publicly share confidential or private information
Covered in this course
Course contents
This training course is broken down into 2 sections
- 1 Defining Social Media
- 2 Social Media at Work
SECTION 1
The opening section of this training course looks at the term "social media" and analyses what it covers, it's risks, and it's benefits.fi
SECTION 2
The final section of this training course looks at how social media can be used in the workplace, including best practices for using it safely.
About this course
Social media has changed the way the world interacts with each other, both personally and professionally. In fact, the average internet user spends 145 minutes per day on social media!
With that said, there are a number of risks associated with social media usage that both organisations and their employees must be aware of and know how to mitigate.
This short online Social Media Awareness course explores how social media might be used at work, and also when it shouldn't be used. Additionally, it covers the importance of following an organisation's policies and procedures surrounding social media usage and why publicly sharing confidential or private information can be extremely damaging.
This Social Media Awareness course isn't just for those who work in Marketing or Advertising either, it's for anyone who might use social media within the workplace, for whatever reason.
Presented by
Elena PitsiaeliThe importance of Social Media Awareness Training
It’s important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.
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Social Media Awareness Training certificate
Download and print
Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Social Media Awareness Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your Social Media Awareness Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
90 real user reviews
Interesting and informative
Very interesting, it gave me a better idea of how my posts could affect my Company. I also updated my Security settings following the course.
Very informative.
Great to have insight into 'social media' issues etc. thanks.
Mostly what i already know, but ....
Mostly what i am already aware of, with a couple of little extras that made me think about a couple of risks i had not considered.
Very clearly presented
I enjoyed this course. It covered all the points without being unnecessarily long and tedious. The presenter was very clear and background setting lovely and subtle.
Short and clear. Good job¡¡¡
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Quick and very informative
Easy learning and good general reminders of the risks of social media.
Very informative.
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
It covered all the main topics
thought it was ok, nothing mind blowing, it covered the main points including; how it affects your employer, which was good but on the whole did not introduce anything new to me. I felt it focused a little too much on the basics, which most people will be aware of but I suppose it has to cover all levels of understanding. The points on work and personal social media posts potentially impacting your employer were good, it is an area that I want employees to be aware of, as I don’t think that some know that if their place of work is identified on their social media by any posts that could be perceived as negative or inappropriate could cause reputational damage to their employer through association. I did not think the test was very good, it did not really touch on some of the key points including; impacts on your employer so would worry that some topics would not be consolidated
Why is this training important?
Business benefits
Social media is often depicted as a pass time to be enjoyed outside of working hours, but in the modern workplace social media usage is ever increasing. Many professionals are divided on whether social media in the workplace is helpful or harmful, but the fact is that social media is here to stay and its usage will likely continue to increase.
With that said, those using social media must be aware of the implications of using these platforms inproperly.
Providing employees with awareness training, as well as appropriate policies and procedures, will help to ensure that social media usage is safe.
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