Social Media for Finance Professionals

Social media is a powerful tool for supporting your professional activities. It can help you build networks, enhance organisational processes and work practices and boost your personal career development.

If you’ve ever wanted to exploit the power of social media but didn’t know where to start, this course is for you. You’ll consider how social media can help you achieve your own professional goals, explore some of the most common social media platforms and discover how other organisations and individuals use social media in a professional context. You’ll develop your own personal social media brand, start to build an online professional network and discover diverse new sources of specialist information. Finally, you’ll consider how social media can be used for marketing, organising events or managing collaborative and remote-working projects.

Throughout, you’ll access targeted information delivered across a range of blogs and social networks.

Social Media for Accountants is one of our peer-enriched e-learning courses. Peer-enriched learning courses stimulate intelligent dialogue and debate and provide a valuable and evolving resource of professional knowledge and experience. These courses are topical, practical and highly relevant to today’s changing market. Each module is split into two activities: Understanding the issues and putting it into practice. The first encourages you to think about a topic, drawing on your own professional experience and knowledge. The second helps you to put ideas and/or theories into practice as part of your day-to-day work.