Integrated professional skills in the digital age

Integrated professional skills
in the digital age

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
PART 1.......................................................................................................................................3
Comparison and contrast between positive and negative aspects of an individual and
business being online and offline...........................................................................................3
PART 2.......................................................................................................................................6
Challenges related to security and privacy faced by individual and businesses when they go
online......................................................................................................................................6
PART 3.......................................................................................................................................7
Difference between blog and website along with tools for creation of blog.........................7
Blog as a communication tool................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Digitalisation is the process which is used by individual and businesses so as to
translate some information into a noticeable digital method. This information are stored in the
form of bits and then processed for further use. In current scenario every company and
individual are using online platform so as to sell their product or services or to stay social on
social media with the help of digitalisation methods (Alalwan and et. al.., 2017). So it can be
said that internet is the interactive technology which is having computer as mediator which
helps the business and individual to trade and to share valuable information which could be
helpful for someone. This report is prepared so as to understand benefits and disadvantages
for individual and businesses when they use online and offline platform. Furthermore this
report discusses challenges and issues faced by individual and businesses when they go
online and at last benefits of blog over websites are showcased.
PART 1
Comparison and contrast between positive and negative aspects of an individual and business
being online and offline
In modern time every business and every individual is having social existence which
is based on internet and being online. When businesses are running on online and offline
platform they face some benefits and negative impact and similarly when a person interacts
with people by using online media and offline modes that is also having positive and negative
impacts. These impacts are enlightened as below:
For individual being online
Social media is one of the greatest aspects which are used by individual in order to
communicate and interact with their known or unknown persons. So it is require comparing
and contrasting negative aspects in an effective manner. In this regard below is the through
bifurcation in an efficient manner:
Positive aspects Negative aspects
 This helps the individual to connect
with huge number of people which
enhances knowledge and skills of
 Social media is having various
viruses and scams which may lead to
various frauds that can affect the

individual.
 With the help of online channels an
individual is able to enhance his or
her visibility.
 With the use of internet social media
can be accessed which renders high
opportunity to individual so as to
share their ideas with others.
 With the assistance of internet any
information can be obtained at any
time when required (Bradshaw,
2017).
 Internet is helpful for employees,
students and trainees as with its use
they may have certain training session
so with their assistance they can make
them educate.
emotional balance of an individual.
 Sometimes it is seen that information
available on social media is fake and
fabricated which leads to generation
of distrust among people.
 The major problem faced on internet
is leaking of personal data; this may
hamper privacy of an individual.
 With the use of online platform
several financial transaction can be
performed and during this transaction
the fear of cyber hacking is high that
may lead to financial losses to
individual.
For individual being offline
When an individual is willing to interact and to get information on offline platform
the differentiation of positive and negative aspects are explained as below:
Positive aspect Negative aspect
 When a person connects to other
person on such offline platform this
assist them to maintain personal
relationship with each other which
may last longer (Chawinga, 2017).
 When information is gathered offline
then resource is easily obtained which
creates trustworthiness. For example
if information is gathered through
books then it can be verified and
 Offline communication does not have
any record so it is hard to preserve the
message or conversation for future
use.
 When information are shared with the
use of offline channels then words
can be distorted which may lead to
reaching of wrong or inaccurate
information.
 Sometime the words of speaker are