The present world of information technology requires you to be completely updated on the technical skills. But before you should know what all what all technical skills you should possess, you must know why these technical skills are important. Learning technical skills are essential not only for your career development but even though it may not directly help in your career, having them as additional skills can boost your career in general. It will help you grow in your career and will no doubt help in income increase too. It is also important to know what all technical skills you should learn since it would be too tedious and virtually difficult to learn all most all technical skills. At the same time, learning all technical skills may not be all that relevant to you. As an entrepreneur even if you learn few technical skills, it may prove to be the greatest asset for you.

What all technical skills you should have?

· You should essentially know about wireless technology without which your knowledge of technical skills are incomplete. You should know about LAN and WAN which is essential for your enterprise networking.

· Voice over IP is essential to generate more business and so it is a preferred choice over the traditional phone lines. A fair knowledge of VoIP running on TCP or IP network is essential.

· With the increasing need for virtual-machine based networking, there is a need to know about virtual servers and hypevisor technology. Microsoft in association with VMware offers a range of virtualization products.

· The emergence of Unified Communications which brings together email, voicemail, fax etc. all need to be learnt on order to further the today's business environment.

· With the recent upcoming of Ubuntu and Linux with it's new versions, the time has come now for the users to use these as hybrid networks. So, you must also be updated on the new launches.

· The IT enterprises often have remote teams which needs effective usage of VPN and SSN technologies in order to manage these teams.

· You should then also know about SAAS (Software As a Service) which can deliver applications over the web.

· Also you should learn the method of securing your database, mails and other anti-spamming techniques.

Now, what steps you should take in order to learn these technical skills which are basic to the IT, yet essential?

· If you are net savvy, then the best way to learn is to look for the online tutorials which are available on good websites. For this you can go to Google, search for your requirement and then you get to know of these sites who offer these online training for either free or on payment basis.

· You can buy some technical books from the leading technical bookshop which will have easy to use training guide for your easy learning. Or you can also order on internet.

· Also, reading newspapers and magazines related to technology field will have you the latest update. In every newspapers, there is a column or page dedicated to new launches.

· You can also subscribe to newsletters by different IT companies.

· You can join the networking communities which will have you the experts in the IT field from whom you can lean a lot. For those who love talking and interacting, this is the best solution.

· Get attached to geeks and who are gadget friendly. They will let you know of the latest launches.

· You can join associations which are especially meant for the software professionals.

Above all, the most important is you should have an intrinsic desire to learn. While some say, you should marry a technocrat or a perfect geek, but just think if that will serve your purpose. If you think, you can but make sure you should be obstinate and gradually make progress towards becoming perfect at technical skills.