The tools and services available to help you be an on-line professional are extremely powerful and flexible - although they can take a little time to get familiar with. This power and flexibility combined with continuous updates creates a real learning challenge for professionals used to a relatively fixed working environment. In addition, the many generations that make up the knowledge worker population have been exposed to very different sets of technology developments. At one extreme, individuals have just got to grips with email and a browser - at the other is the Myspace, widget, click it and see what works generation!

From my time with Web2Consultant, my take on the key IT related Skills needed to be an on-line professional are as follows:

This list may be quite a challenge for the professional used to being provided with a secretary, a telephone and a dictation machine!

Let me know which of these you'd like more info on and I will cover in future blogs.