Mastering These top 10 technology Skills Will Make You Soar Higher In the Digital Age
29th March 2021
The Top 10 Technology Skills is an article meant to help you know about these soft skills so that you might become successful when you make use of them, especially in the digital world. This article is about Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills, especially computers, and how they work. With that said, let’s now look at these ten important skills below.
This general typing skill is needed even if you never planned to be a writer or an author. Some of these soft skills are needed in self-publishing, but in this post, my focus is much more general. Here, you need to learn how to type because this skill is so important and valuable in our digital age.
You can even use your typing skills to start a good business in major towns in South Sudan. You can charge typing fees differently from printing and photocopying fees. This can create for you an income-generating system. You can also learn how to type so that you can type your assignments.
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Oh yes, I learned how to type when I was doing my first bachelor’s degree in theology back in high school from 2010 to 2012. This is how I then discovered I can write and publish my own books. In this case, learning how to type with a keyboard is a great skill that will open many doors for you.
You can learn how to use a computer to edit texts like this one, edit videos, pictures, and even audio files. There are tools both free and paid for you to use to do just that. I use the Microsoft Word program to write these posts before I upload them into a content management system CMS (See point 10 below).
Editing skills can be for books, online blog posts, documents, and assignments. You can use online proofreading tools or those features found in most word processing tools such as MS Word and others. And if you know how to edit videos, you can get a job. Also, must photo studios in South Sudan use photo editing applications to polish pictures and photos before printing.
If you know how to edit audio files professionally, media houses such as Eye Radio may also employ you for that, and you can earn a living. You can get more information about these skills online for either free or for a fee. But you may need to learn more so that you create a new career that will make you feel happy and earn you money.
The thirds step in the top 10 technology skills is about using social media. I call it social media skills because you can use it to chat or simply communicate with friends and family members on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and more. All these skills require being literate in any international language such as English, Arabic, or even French or Swahili.
These languages are already in the information and communication systems all over the world. Learning how to read and write in any of these languages and more will make it possible for you to learn how to make use of these technology skills also known as soft skills.
This may be part of social media, but it is always much bigger than that. This means digital communication can be by email, live chat, social media messaging, voice calls, video calls, and much more. In this case, we are talking about communication skills through technology.
We use technology as a medium of communication, and making use of these skills can earn you a good job and money. Do you know that there is a certain way to speak into your device in order for the listener on the other end to hear you better? This is a communication skill that you may need to learn.
Web design and development is one of the top 10 technology skills that I have handpicked for you in this post. It is the hardest, but if you can master it, you can make a good career as well as good money out of it. I do web design and development, and I have learned all I know just by playing with the machine.
Learning by doing is always the best way to learn because it is always results-oriented. Learning as you work with something is much better than learning by just reading this post and never do anything with the lessons learned. The best way to learn is to act on the lessons you have learned.
For example, after reading this post, I wish you can pick one of these top 10 technology skills and play with it to see if you can be good at it. Remember, one of the ways to discover your career is by testing things out. You have to be exposed to your career before you know it is yours in the first place.
Search Engine Optimization skills are those soft skills you need to master in our digital world especially if you are building websites for yourself or for others. As we have seen above, building websites is a good business. It is a freelancing business that the world is not getting rid of sooner.
This means if you can learn SEO skills, you can get a job to help those in need of such services all over the world. In fact, there are websites that hire gigs like these so that people get the serves they need, and those who provide these digital services make money on the fly.
You can read more about SEO skills in this post. You can even take courses online about this skill if you are interested in it so that you can make use of it and earn money. It is a business opportunity for you.
Just like web design and development, you can learn how to create or design applications. This also depends on what you want the application to do for you. These days, you can create almost any app you can imagine without writing any complicated codes. This sounds amazing, right? Yes, and you can do it if you only have the interest to learn more about it.
You can design apps for your website or for others who need them, and they can surely pay you for this. You can create apps for reading digital content and books. You can create applications for both mobile devices and computers, or even for web usage. You can create any kind of apps.
Now, if you are familiar with WordPress, then you know that plugins play a key role in extending the functionality of the core WordPress system. These little pieces of software can add other functions to a website, making it do more than it would without them.
You can create security plugins, shopping cart plugins, payment plugins, and more, just to list but a few examples. First, you may need to do product research based on your customer needs. With WordPress.org, you can then list the plugin for free and see if people will love it. You can even have a free trial and the PRO version with more features or functionalities.
Just as designing and developing WordPress plugins can be a great service as well as a career for you, designing and developing WordPress can be a business opportunity for you as well. Themes play a role in how websites look and feel. Creating such designs using PHP language can be an advertising channel for you in the WordPress world where web designers can test your designs.
You can do this for your websites, or create themes for the marketplace on WordPress.org, the paid version of this open-source software used by millions of people worldwide to create websites.
But before you could tap into this potential market, you may need to invest in learning how to write PHP code and other web-building codes, such as CSS, Java, and many others. It takes time and effort to learn these skills, but they can serve you better if done well.
The last tip in the top 10 technology skills is about learning how to make use of the Content Management Systems (CMS) such as WordPress.com or WordPress.org. There are many available CMS tools and sites online, but WordPress is one of the best out there.
Now, you can learn how to use these platforms when you are creating and managing websites either for yourself or for others. I will be writing more posts about WordPress, but for now, you may want to check out a post I have written earlier about how to create pages and posts in WordPress, just click here to see the post.
We have come to the end of the top 10 technology skills, and here are my last words about the post. I hope you have read from the beginning to the end. My advice for you right now is that knowledge is only potential power until you make use of it. Take time to review the points in the post, and pick the ones that are appealing to you, and then do something, now!
This is not an order, but a bit of advice. It will help you if you can make use of the information you have in this post. The best way is to start and start right away. Waiting for tomorrow will make you wander away in the world of business, and you might forget the whole thing altogether. Getting started now is the best investment for you.
With all that said, let’s call it a post. But I want to know what you think about it below in the comments section. What do you think I can edit or update? You can also reach out to me through the WhatsApp handle below. God bless and keep you safe during and after the pandemic.