Email Essentials – Private Sector

American Corporate Video Award International Cindy Award

Since the beginning of history, we humans have found ever more effective ways of communicating with each other. Now e-mail, the fastest and most powerful communications tool ever, has arrived and with it a complex array of legal and interpersonal issues.

Organizations are struggling with what is appropriate and inappropriate personal use of business e-mail. What (if any) privacy can we expect from this technology? What are the legal liability issues?

E-mail essentials (28 minutes, Management version) 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)