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Social Networking at Work

Navigate social media at work with confidence and security. Learn to protect your privacy, identify threats, and use platforms responsibly.

Created byTerri Wagner
BeginnerUpdated May 16, 2023

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleAnalyze privacy expectations when using social media and the potential risks associated with sharing personal information online.
  • check_circleEvaluate the potential security threats that arise from social networking, such as phishing scams, malware distribution, and social engineering.
  • check_circleApply strategies to protect personal and business-related information when using social media and networking online.
  • check_circleDevelop a plan to effectively use social media for business and networking purposes while minimizing the risks and maintaining personal privacy.

About This Course

Social networking is becoming ubiquitous and a recent survey notes 22% of time spent online is associated with social networking activities. Since many workers use social media to promote business and network with other professions, social networking is now also a workplace concern. Facebook scams were the most common form of malware distribution in a recent survey and over 31 million false Facebook accounts exist according to one report. False accounts have been used to connect for purposes of gaining access to systems or gain information on the victim’s other contacts and connections.

This course will review different types of social media, review expectations of privacy, explain the risks of social media and provide ideas on how we can protect ourselves while using this technology.

Course Content

5 activities • 13 videos • duration: 56m

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Introduction2 videos • 5 min
  • videocamWelcome
    Duration 0:33
  • videocamSocial Media History
    Duration 4:53
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Social Media Explored6 videos • 22 min
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Mitigating Social Media Risks3 videos • 19 min
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Conclusion2 videos • 8 min
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Final Assessment1 quiz

Your Instructors

Terri Wagner

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Terri Wagner is former founder of Mentor Source, Inc., a Colorado-based business leadership and project management coaching, mentoring, consulting, and training company. She is an experienced instructional designer, coauthor, and technical editor who produced several business leadership, project management, and business analysis textbooks and educational programs. Terri has also taught domestically and internationally to state agencies, governmental entities, corporate clients, and at the graduate level in the university system.

Todd Edmands

Senior Security Engineer

Todd is an engineer with over 20 years of experience working in the Information Technology field. I have held the positions of systems administrator, systems engineer, security engineer and most recently information security engineer. Given his security background Todd is familiar with the challenge of trying to maintain the security of an environment and the security of products being released to customers. Todd is an honorably discharged veteran of the Air Force. Completed CompTIA Security+ course.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

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    Interesting material

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