NU Online News Service, March 30, 1:47 p.m. EST
The Agents Council for Technology (ACT) will host two free webinars next week on the subjects of social networking and e-mail security.
ACT will host its first webinar at 2 p.m. on April 7. The seminar is titled "Introduction to the Social Web–A New Way to Connect."
The second webinar, titled "Protecting Independent Agent Clients with Secure E-mail Using TLS (Transport Layer Security)," will be held at 2 p.m. on April 8.
The social Web seminar will feature Ryan Hanley of the Guilderland Agency; Jason Hoeppner of the B.H. Burke & Co.; Chris Jordan of Atlanta Insurance Live; Liz Kittell from the Independent Insurance Agents of Nebraska; and Rick Morgan, ACT Social Web Work Group chairman and principal of Rick Morgan Consulting.
"This webinar is designed to cover the basics for getting started and implementing a successful agency social Web strategy using tools such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn," Jeff Yates, ACT executive director, said in a statement. "It is the second in a series of webinars ACT will host this year on the social Web, and it will demonstrate the business applications independent agencies are finding most effective when using social media."
The April 8 webinar on e-mail security will feature Jim Rogers, director of distribution technology with the Hartford, and Tim Woodcock, president of Courtesy Computers.
The first 45 minutes of this webinar is designed for agency business leaders and explains the risks of unsecured e-mail, the availability and handling of TLS on various types of servers (whether in-house or hosted), securing a security certificate, activating TLS with insurance carriers, and detecting TLS encrypted emails.
The final 15 minutes will be a more technical demonstration of TLS implementation using a 2007 Microsoft Exchange server as an example.
Mr. Yates, who will moderate both meetings, said agents need to protect sensitive information sent by e-mail and this webinar is intended to help with that. ACT, he noted, does not endorse any vendor, but does endorse an industry standard approach to secure e-mail transmission.
ACT was founded by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America.
Registration for the Social Web webinar is online at: www1.gotomeeting.com/register/487344785
Registration for the e-mail security webinar is at: www1.gotomeeting.com/register/829398416
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