Digital Presence

By: Jorge Torrez

Google Drive

Main utilities:

1.File savingBeing its principal utility, google drive offers to his registered users an initial saving space of 15GB which you can increase by paying a little fee. This is a great advantage because you can save safely your documents without the fear of lost your data because they are saved in a digital space that cannot be destroyed or erased only if you want. In addition the great saving space that Drive gives you its enough to save all of your important files such as documents or pdf.

2. File sharingThis is other of the important utilities that this application gives to you. With this you can share all of your files with your partners allowing you work with them at the same time in the same file, being a great advantage because you can coordinate with your partners to work in the file and can work in less time ending rapidly the work.

3.Folder creation and DownloadingWith the folder creation, you can organize all of your files preventing them may be lost and helping you to not loose your important documents.

Also you can download files from Drive to your device if you want to keep some files on it or if you will use them.

ImportanceFor me as a college student work with Google Drive it's very important because with the saving space that it offers I can save all of my important documents and presentations and I don't have to worry if I will lose them because they are secured in the cloud. Also with the function of file sharing I can work easily with my partners in a task at the same time allowing us to finish it in less time. In conclusion I can say that Drive it’s a key tool which will help me alot in my studies.

LinkedIn

How you can use LinkedIn to boost your networking and professional career? LikedIn is a professional social network which principal purpose is to help college students and professionals develop in a best way their career and to help them to find job, so for me there are two great benefit that LinkedIn gives:

1.Increase my visibilityLinkedIn profile is me when I am not there. Since LinkedIn is the place where people go to learn about me, it’s the ultimate opportunity for visibility with decision-makers who need to know me. This help them to know who I am and what are my interest, dreams and skills allowing them to know if I am the right choice for them.

2. CredibilityThe LinkedIn long-form publishing platform gives me the opportunity to convey my thought-leadership and achieve visibility in an inimitable way. It also helps me enhance credibility by reinforcing my profile with my content and my point of view allowing the decision-makers to view if I am completely trustworthy.

Why is it important to have a Digital Presence?For first, a digital presence is simply that you occupy space online, also in the scope of business having a digital presence means that you have your own company website. So have a digital presence is very important in this days because the people is most connected than before with the internet making it an important tool in order to make other people to know you or your company and to reach new consumers to it helping your company to grow in popularity. As an individual having a digital presence can help you to be known by others and by that let them learn about you and your likes.

LinkedIn Profile

How LinkedIn can help you to start creating your digital presence?As I had mentioned before, LinkedIn help me to be known by other people and to learn about me so this is practically a digital presence. In this page I can share with others my interests, thinkings and likes , this help them to know me better and to know who I am and through my profile they can see more information about my studies, university, career and so on . Also functions like Groups or Recommendations help me to know and interact with other people allowing them to interact with me too.

ConclusionIn conclusion, tools like Google Drive and LinkedIn can help me in the developing of my career. With Drive I can keep safe your files in a digital space in that they cannot be erased or lost. Also LinkedIn can help me to develop my digital presence allowing other to know about me and in a future help companies to find me in order to know if I can be the right choice to hire. So this two services can efficiently assist me in my career and in the process to find a job.