Internet /E-Commerce

This program is also available for online training. See details below.

E-mail essentials is intended to help employees in public and private sector organizations think through the appropriate and inappropriate uses of this powerful communications tool. After viewing the program, employees will have a clearer idea of...

• how e-mail works
• what if any privacy you can anticipate
• what if any personal uses of an organization's e-mail are appropriate
• some of the rules of e-mail etiquette
• the illegality of e-mail harassment
• confidentiality concerns
• disclosure issues (public sector version)

E-mail essentials is made up of short theatrical dramatizations that explore each of the issues the program seeks to address. A diverse group of legal, human resources and technology experts discuss the significance of each scenario and suggest guidelines to use in determining whether you are using your e-mail system in a manner that is legal, appropriate and consistent with the values of your organization.

There are management and employee versions of the program available for public and private sector organizations.

• Scene #1: Lose Weight Now - use of workplace e-mail to promote a personal business
• Scene #2: Taking Initiative - political campaigning over the e-mail system
• Scene #3: Sorry, Wrong Address - sending inappropriate personal messages
• Scene #4: Flame Out - using e-mail to express anger or other emotions
• Scene #5: The Joke's on Me - playing jokes on co-workers using the e-mail system
• Scene #6: What Does "No" Mean? - e-mail harassment is still harassment
• Scene #7: Adding Insult to Injury - inappropriate personnel discussions (management version only)
• Scene #8: Leaks Hurt - sending confidential e-mail documents

Support Materials

and Facilitator's Guide. This flexible guide includes participant handouts, a bibliography, an e-mail etiquette dictionary, exercises and questions for discussion.

Online Training Option:

This program is also available over the web or over your company’s network. This option makes it is easy for you to deliver video to any employee’s desktop at any location with web access. The online program includes:

Produced - 1999

Buying and selling like lightning, a 27-year-old multimillionaire day-traded his way to a fortune via the Internet, while two Cornell University students launched an online community that, at its initial public offering, was valued at $194 million. In this program—filmed at the height of the Internet boom—day trader Scott Friedman and the "twenty-something" founders of TheGlobe.com discuss their remarkable successes. In addition, financial experts including Deutschebank’s Ed Yardeni and Richard Quest, the BBC’s U.S. business reporter, voice their views on the new Internet/Wall Street synergy. (23 minutes)

• The Internet Money Machine - DVD $149.99 [Add to Cart]

Produced - 2001

It can sway what we do. It can affect what we buy. It can even alter our views of the people around us. This fast-paced three-part series investigates the pervasive influence of the media in American culture. Commentary by Temple University’s George Gerbner, New York University’s Todd Gitlin, and Seventeen senior editor Melanie Mannarino is combined with on-the-street interviews and visual examples to provide eye-opening insights into how television, newspapers, the Internet, and other media shape people’s perceptions. 3-part series, 25 minutes each.

The Series Includes: Why We Do What We Do | Why We Buy What We Buy | Sexual Stereotypes

• Media Interrupted: The Dissection of Media in American Culture - DVD $399.99 [Add to Cart]