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" Leadership | 10/31/2012 @ 9:59AM |9,812 views Social Media Training Is Now Mandatory: Five Ways To Make Sure Your Company Does It Right 10 comments, 2 called-out Comment Now Follow Comments Sprint Ninjas Sprint Ninjas When I wrote my book, The 2020 Workplace, in 2010, I made a prediction some considered bold: I said that by the year 2020, social media training in the workplace would be as common as ethics and diversity training. Thanks to a turbocharged boom in social over the past two years, developments have outpaced even my own expectations. Eight years early, we are already there. Social media training is quickly becoming mandatory for an ever-growing range of companies, far surpassing the first wave of IT firms that rolled it out two years ago, like Dell, Intel and IBM. While it began as an added 'bonus' in the arsenal of the marketing spokesperson, now companies ranging from Unisys, PepsiCo, Adidas, HP and Sprint are making social not only part of the company's core training curriculum, but also a key element in their recruiting message, stressing the employee benefit of receiving social media literacy training. One obvious motivation for formalizing a company's social media programs and policies is to avoid a social media disaster. If you remember a video entitled "Dirty Dominos Pizza," you know just how dangerous the combination of social media and the workplace can be. The two Dominos Pizza employees who joke in this video while tampering with food -claimed afterward that they were just having fun when they posted this footage to YouTube. The result? Both were fired and sent to jail on charges of food tampering. And three years later, when you conduct a Google search on Domino's Pizza, this awful video is still the fifth result! Companies like Unisys, Sprint and HP are creating social media training programs to avoid these types of social media crises, but also, just as importantly, to show employees how using social media can be a

"Media literacy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Media literacy is a repertoire of competences that enable people to analyze, evaluate, and create messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres, and forms. Contents 1 Education 1.1 Concepts of media education 1.1.1 Production 1.1.2 Language 1.1.3 Representation 1.1.4 Audience 1.2 UNESCO and media education 1.2.1 UNESCO questionnaire 2 History 2.1 United Kingdom 2.2 Australia 2.3 Africa 2.4 Europe 2.5 Canada 2.6 The United States 3 See also 4 References 5 Books 6 External links Education Media Education is the process of teaching and learning about media.[1] It is about developing young people's critical and creative abilities when it comes to the media. Media education should not be confused with educational technology or with educational media. Surveys repeatedly show that, in most industrialized countries, children now spend more time watching television than they do in school, or also on any other activity apart from sleeping[2] Media Education has no fixed location, no clear ideology and no definitive recipients; it is subject to whims of a financial market bigger than itself.[1] Being able to understand the media enables people to analyze, evaluate, and create messages in a wide variety of mediums, genres, and forms. A person who is media literate is informed. There are many reasons why media studies are absent from the primary and secondary school curricula, including cuts in budgets and social services as well as over-packed schedules and expectations. Education for media literacy often uses an inquiry-based pedagogic model that encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, hear, and read. Media literacy education provides tools to help people critically analyze messages, offers opportunities for learners to broa

ref: A.M.A. Braman J, Goldberg J. Traditional and Youth Media Education: Collaborating and Capitalizing on Digital Storytelling. Youth Media Reporter [serial online]. December 2009;3:162-165. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed February 16, 2013.