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LO 8.1. Discuss the impact technology has on business and professional communication

Video 1: 5 Principles on Using Information Technology to Improve Your Business
Description: A video that discusses principles that can bring the most improvement to businesses

Audio 1: How Startups Are Using Tech to Try and Fight Workplace Bias
Description: Tech firms are trying to fight workplace bias using technology.

Web 1: The Impact of Technological Change on Business Activity
Description: A discussion on the ways business technology has changed the way in which companies conduct business

LO 8.2. Explain how emotion is expressed with technology

Video 2: Why Is Technology Important?
Description: A positive video that shows the importance of technology in business

Audio 2: Will Our Screens Soon Be Able to Read Our Emotions?
Description: A discussion of the future of capturing and detecting our emotions

Web 2: Why It's So Hard to Detect Emotion in E-mails and Texts
Description: An article discussing strategies to employ to deal with the lack of emotion indicators in emails and texts

LO 8.3. Discuss how the drawbacks of technology can prevent you from excelling as a professional

Video 3: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Description: A video on the danger of the vast power of instant access to a lot of information

Audio 3: Are You Willing to Share Your Wearable’s Data With Your Boss?
Description: This audio story tackles the balance technology is providing about employee movement and privacy.

LO 8.4. Explain how to use professional etiquette with technology

Video 4: One Minute Wonder: Technology Etiquette
Description: This is a quick and to-the-point video about the time and place usage of technology.

Audio 4: Magazine Writes New Rules for Polite Digital Society
Description: The struggle to come up with new etiquette rules for using technology in our lives

Web 3: The 10 Social & Tech Etiquette Rules for the Workplace
Description: A tech etiquette guide for companies