Integrated Professional Skills in Digital Age

Integrated professional
skills in digital age
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Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
a) Compare and contrast between the positive and negative aspects of an individual and businesses
being online and offline...........................................................................................................................3
b) Discuss the challenges and measures of security and privacy that individuals and businesses take
when they go online.................................................................................................................................6
c) How is blog different from a website and discuss different tools that could be used to create a blog.
Can blog be a communication tool?.........................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................9
REFRENCES............................................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
The digital age is also known as information age which is considered as time period
which is starting from the 1970 along with the introduction of the personal computer which have
subsequent technology. This will provide ability to transfer data or information quickly as well
as freely (Allen, Cain and Meyer, 2020). Now a day every person is adopting advance
technology because through that they able to gain various benefits as well as it is also helpful for
the business unit because through it they able to cover market in effective manner. Moreover by
adopting digitalization business unit as well as individual conduct communication at the
international level easily. The main aim of respective report is to understand about online and
offline medium. Topics covered in respective report are positive and negative aspects of online
and offline for a business as well as individual. In addition to this, it will also include challenges
related to being online as well as it also include difference between website and blog and tools
used while developing it.
MAIN BODY
a) Compare and contrast between the positive and negative aspects of an individual and
businesses being online and offline.
In today’s time every individual prefer online medium for everything because it help in
saving time and easy but there are some factors which makes offline is more effective. So it can
be say that everything has positive as well as negative aspects similarly there is positive and
negative side of becoming online and offline (Arnold and Boggs, 2019). These are also different
for an individual and businesses because their usages are also different. Below some of the
advantage and disadvantage of becoming online and offline are given in respect of both
individual and businesses.
Positive aspects of becoming online for an individual
 An individual able to conduct studies and enhance skills by attending online classes from
anywhere and at any time.
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 An individual can conduct shopping through online sites like Amazon, eBay, Flipkart and
so on. They can also conduct banking activities and pay their bills of electricity, water,
food etc.
 An individual can conduct communicate from one location to another through being
online and using different tools like facebook, google duo, instagram and so on.
 One of the main positive aspect of being online for an individual is they can entertain
themselves through different source like YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime and so on
(Bilyalova, Salimova and Zelenina, 2019).
Negative aspect of becoming online for an individual
 One of the main negative aspect of being online is it make an individual addicted, waste
time as well as cause distraction.
 Though online medium a person or hacker can hack individual personal as well as private
information and then threaten to them for money or any other interest.
 Through online medium one can easily cheat another in respect of relation, online
products or any other aspect.
 In the life of individual being more online leads to depression, self isolated and
loneliness.
 Being too much online also impact on the individual education which leads to low grade
as well as there is huge change that student may move to wrong track.
Positive aspect of becoming offline for an individual
 If an individual become more offline then they can properly focus on their studies which
help them in getting more grade which lead to development of successful future.
 An individual get better sleep from those who are always preferred online.
 Offline medium help in developing more effective communication as well as relationship
because through it they can conduct interaction through face to face (Bjola, Cassidy and
Manor, 2019).
 Being offline help in connecting with self as well as through it a person can explore their
talent and skills.
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