Managing digital information on a computer

• Information overload is not only about too much data but also about the different types of it. All non-essential information adds to the clutter and ends up as – garbage in…garbage out.
• Information overload decreases efficiency as individuals and organizations waste time managing it.
• Information duplication is cheap but wastes resources. For instance, digital information is often printed out. Information on paper is also digitized. These have a cost.
• Information sharing has become easier. Think social networks and think loss of privacy as everyone is available 24 x 7.
• Information is not only about receiving, but also about sending it out. For example, emails are meant to be replied to. Email overload is a real stress factor.
• Attempting to manage information (or related tasks) has given rise to the multi-tasking trend. The jury is still out on whether multi-tasking is ultimately counter-productive or not.
• Ultimately, too much information makes it difficult to decide quickly and effectively. For example, try reading a few reviews when you are planning to buy a mobile phone next time.

Online behavour

A Buggy Issue

Apart from such privacy settings, it is also necessary to make a conscious effort to stay informed about existing bugs and get them fixed before they leave you vulnerable to any privacy leak. It would be disastrous if all your private photos and postings were available to your prospective employers during a routine background search.
Facebook users have not forgotten the recent Facebook privacy glitch late last year when private messages that weren’t supposed to be public had seemingly appeared publicly on their wall page.

2. Be Public

Access restrictions aside, stay public in general. It makes sense to say that you wouldn’t have any online presence if you don’t appear online! Besides robbing your chance to impress recruiters, a blocked social network profile may also raise a red flag, giving the impression that you have things to hide.
Since an overwhelming 93% of employers use the internet to find out about possible employees.

4. Filter Your Images

That entire thing about a picture being a thousand words, well, it’s true. With Facebook becoming a daily social outlet to connect with friends and family, you know unappealing photos will turn up eventually.
They’re generally harmless, but there are some photos of your wilder days in college that need not ever

5. Integrate Your Social Network Profiles

How are you with names on the Web? It’s time to make sure that your name is consistent across all of them. Some of us may choose to use some nickname for our Facebook account while have our official name reserved for more professional uses

Keep It All Together

Apart from your name, check if the details you have put in your various profiles about your accomplishments, prior experience, employments, interests and even photos are pretty similar as well. Once you’ve done that, link all your social networks together.

6. Update Your Profile Regularly

Of course, it will be pretty pointless if you have all those badges for people to connect with you but do not have your most updated information in those profiles. It is of utmost benefit to you if recruiters can easily see your most recent job descriptions, achievements and other life changes to accurately assess your capabilities.

7. Express Yourself Across Different Platforms Regularly

If you want to maintain that online presence, you will need to be proactive in all your social networking platforms and your own website. Your goal is to showcase yourself to potential employers with your viewpoints and expertise so that they can judge you in a positive light.
Don’t just stop at blogging for your site or commenting and posting on your social network account, participate in public online forums, commenting on other blogs and even submitting reviews on books, movies, travels, etc. All these online footprints you leave out there establish your online reputation and validate the claims you make in your bio and resume.

8. Share Your Work Online

When you want to impress potential employers, one thing you have to do is to showcase your work online. This is especially so if you’re in the creative industry. You can do that by making use of a couple of well-known online communities and photo-sharing networks such as insagram and facebook.

Your Portfolio, Your Shrine

 Show your past accomplishments on your website, from published research papers, company projects, samples of your best work, presentations and speeches, to volunteering services, accolades and certifications.
Putting these up online allows the people recruiting you to have a clearer picture of your competence than what your brief and concise your CV may reveal.

9. Balance Your Posts & Updates

Much as you want to get prospective employers noticing you online, you shouldn’t restrict your posts and updates to just career materials.
The good news is you can; in fact having personal posts and updates unrelated to work produces a more holistic representation of you and make you appear more genuine. So go ahead, show pictures of your family and friends, tweet about your hobbies and rant about sports all you want!

Keep It Clean and Coherent

 There are certain posts which tend to discourage recruiters
Other taboos include poor grammar/spelling mistakes (54%), mentions of alcohol consumption (47%) and religious posts (26%). The rule of thumb is to err on the safe side by not posting anything you think might be , limit such posts to your friends and hide them from public viewing.

10. Do a Check By Googling Yourself

The best way to assess your online presence is to run the test yourself and google your name from time to time. If you want to see how popular you are on search engines, check out how frequently your name surfaces in the search results and how high up in the list they appear.
in online communities, discussion forums, social network sites and blogs.
More importantly though, find out whether there are any negative content or digital dirt that others might have written about you. These can include bad reviews, online flamings and articles that quoted you out of context and put you in the negative light. If there are any, your priority will be to deal with those first. Here are some ways you can resolve them.

Using references

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E- Commerce

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, is a type of industry where buying and selling of product or service is conducted over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at one point in the transaction's life-cycle, although it may encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail, mobile devices social media, and telephones as well.Electronic commerce is generally considered to be the sales aspect of e-business. It also consists of the exchange of data to facilitate the financing and payment aspects of business transactions. This is an effective and efficient way of communicating within an organization and one of the most effective and useful ways of conducting business.