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Below you will find all the recent ACT Webinars.
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    Social Media: Getting a Grip: How to manage your independent agency's social media
    Social Media: Getting a Grip: How to manage your independent agency's social media
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    This recorded webinar provides agencies with many useful tips to assist them in successfully managing their social media efforts.
     
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    This interactive panel of industry experts will answer your questions around such topics as:
    How do I budget time on social media?
    Where do I get content?
    Who should manage my firm’s social media?
    How do I protect myself from negative comments?
     
    Webinar participants included:
     
    Rick Morgan, Aartrijk Group, Moderator
    Ryan Hanley, The Murray Group
    Chris Paradiso, Paradiso Financial Services & Insurance
    Katie Peet, State Auto
    Mike Peterson, Project CAP
    Angelyn Treutel, SouthGroup Gulf Coast
    Mike Wise, Web Wisedom LLC
    Jeff Yates, ACT Executive Director, Host
     
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    Social Media: Successful Agency Techniques to Build, Integrate and Manage your Blog, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
    Social Media: Successful Agency Techniques to Build, Integrate and Manage your Blog, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
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    This recorded webinar featuring Ryan Hanley, Chris Jordan & Rick Morgan. This webinar demonstrates how to build content and manage a blog, create an effective Facebook Fan page, leverage a Twitter account, and incorporate video into your branding and communication strategy. Find out how to get followers and fans and how all of these tools can be integrated into a comprehensive and successful social networking strategy that will help you grow your business. 

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    Social Media: Agency E&O Considerations when Social Networking
    Social Media: Agency E&O Considerations when Social Networking
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    This webinar explores the major agency E&O risks involved with social networking and provides specific guidance on how agencies can manage those risks.  Presenters were Sabrena Sally (Westport Insurance/Swiss Re), Colleen Murphy (Goldberg Segalla), David Hulcher (IIABA) and Rick Morgan (ACT Social Web Work Group Chair).

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    Social Media: Creating a Social Web Strategy & Policy for Your Agency
    Social Media: Creating a Social Web Strategy & Policy for Your Agency
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    Learn the issues two agents and a carrier executive tackled in formulating the appropriate social media policies for their organizations. Participating are Cindy Adams (Holmes Murphy), Angelyn Treutel (Treutel Insurance Agency), Katie Herbst (Westfield Insurance), Rick Morgan (ACT Social Web WG Chair & Consultant) and Jeff Yates (ACT Executive Director). (Note the visual portion of the Webinar comes on at about one and a half minutes into the recording.)

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    Social Media: Introduction to the Social Web - A New Way to Connect
    Social Media: Introduction to the Social Web - A New Way to Connect
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    View the recorded version of this highly successful webinar which outlines how agents can use the Social Web to build new relationships, explains the basics of the tools and provides agent examples as to how they are leveraging the tools in their agencies. See also the PowerPoint which includes additional information about social networking and some great links to explore for additional information and agency examples.

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    Social Media: Finding Success and Lessons Learned
    Social Media: Finding Success and Lessons Learned
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    Agents & consultants overview the lessons learned over the past 18 months and the best practices agents can use to help ensure a successful experience. Panelists include agents Claudia McClain & Angelyn Treutel and consultants Rick Morgan & Mike Wise. Some of the subjects treated were: does it really drive new business; how important is blogging; where do I get content; how does social networking fit into an overall marketing strategy; how do I budget my time for social networking?

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    Social Media: LinkedIn for Insurance Professionals
    Social Media: LinkedIn for Insurance Professionals
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    ​Learn how to increase your brand, your sales and recruit top performers via LinkedIn. This webinar was presented by Cindy Donaldson, Founders Insurance Group and Rick Morgan, Chair of ACT Social Web Work Group. Cindy and Rick provided independent agents with scores of tips on how to use LinkedIn and how to get the most out it. Recorded Webinar (May 5, 2011)

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    Social Media: Facebook for Insurance Professionals
    Social Media: Facebook for Insurance Professionals
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    Cindy Donaldson, Director of Marketing & Personal & Commercial Lines Sales at Founders Insurance Group, and consultant Rick Morgan, present the ins and outs of using Facebook effectively as an independent agent. The session covered how to set up a Fan Page, utilize Facebook to increase your brand awareness and market share, understand how Facebook Ads work, and connect with clients and prospects. Recorded webinar (August 9, 2011).

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    Websites: Creating a Successful Agency Website
    Websites: Creating a Successful Agency Website
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    This webinar gives independent agencies a great roadmap and practical "how to" tips on creating successful agency websites both for their current clients and to attract new business. This webinar was hosted by the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas as part of its "Moving Your Agency Online" series and the session is presented by agency consultant Steve Anderson. The agency's websites provide the anchor for an effective online presence and every agent will find this recording well worth his or her time.
     

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    Social Media: Measuring Social Media Success
    Social Media: Measuring Social Media Success
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    In this recorded webinar, Chris Paradiso, an agent who has had great success with social media, was joined by four prominent agency consultants known for their social media expertise-- Steve Anderson, Rick Morgan, Mike Peterson and Mike Wise-- to discuss why you should measure your social media activity; the importance of having goals; the most appropriate metric(s) to use; and how to use some of the available measurement tools.
    Recorded webinar (July 31 2012)
     
     
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    Security & Privacy: Implementing an Effective Information Security Program in your Agency
    Security & Privacy: Implementing an Effective Information Security Program in your Agency
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    This webinar highlighted the major security risks independent agencies face and the practical steps they should take to protect the privacy of their private client & employee personal information whether in paper or electronic form. The session outlined how federal and state law, as well as good risk management practice, have made it mandatory for agencies to implement an information security program that is anchored by a written security plan. The program also covered the numerous free tools and articles that ACT has produced to assist agencies with their security program-- including a prototype agency information security plan. Steve Aronson, Aronson Insurance, Ted Joyce, N B Independent Brokerage, and Jeff Yates, ACT Executive Director, were the presenters.

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    Security & Privacy: HIPAA-HITECH Requirements for Independent Agent "Business Associates"
    Security & Privacy: HIPAA-HITECH Requirements for Independent Agent "Business Associates"
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    This recorded webinar and the accompanying slides provide a great roadmap for independent agents as to how to comply with HIPAA & HITECH, if they are acting as "business associates" under HIPAA, handling individually identifiable "Protected Health Information" while producing and servicing life or health insurance. This briefing was provided to ACT's HIPAA Work Group by Bob Chaput of Clearwater Compliance.

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    Security & Privacy: Protecting Independent Agent Clients with Secure Email Using TLS
    Security & Privacy: Protecting Independent Agent Clients with Secure Email Using TLS
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    (Demo in last 15 minutes puts more focus on implementation on Microsoft 2007 Exchange Server). Features Jim Rogers (The Hartford) & Tim Woodcock (Courtesy Computers)

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    Powerpoint Slides (focusing on Microsoft 2007 Exchange Server in last 15 minutes)

    Powerpoint Slides (focusing on Microsoft 2003 Exchange Server in 2nd half)

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    Security & Privacy: ACT's Webinar "Agency E&O Considerations when Social Networking"
    Security & Privacy: ACT's Webinar "Agency E&O Considerations when Social Networking"
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    This webinar explores the major agency E&O risks involved with social networking and provides specific guidance on how agencies can manage those risks. Presenters were Sabrena Sally (Westport Insurance/Swiss Re), Colleen Murphy (Goldberg Segalla), David Hulcher (IIABA) and Rick Morgan (ACT Social Web Work Group Chair).

    Recorded Webinar

    Powerpoint Slides