Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: What’s Your Legal Nurse Consulting Technology New Year’s Resolution?
Everyone makes New Year’s resolutions and everyone breaks them just as quickly as they make them. Lose weight, do more marketing, spend more time with the family, spend less time with the family… a week after New Year’s most people have forgotten their resolutions and are caught back up in the speed of life, all except for one thing – technology.
Technology is different. We use technology every day in some shape or form. Whether it’s our Android®-based phones, iPhones®, Windows® 7, software for our legal nurse consulting businesses or even the GPS in our cars we use to be on time for that new attorney-client. Technology is part of our lives. Some Certified Legal Nurse Consultants adopt new technology easily. Others have to be dragged forward kicking and screaming.
For 2011, my New Year’s first resolution is to learn how to use at least one new software program and my second is to improve one system at the LegalNurse.com with new technology. I’ve got some personal ones as well but they’re private (and I haven’t broken them yet!).
Regarding my first resolution: learn new software. Easy. I’m upgrading my laptop to Windows 7 and learning one flavor of virtualization software.
The second resolution will be harder. I’m always on the lookout for ways to improve our systems here at the Institute. This year I’m keeping my eyes open for new ways to improve collaboration on group projects via technology. That will be a real challenge.
How about you? What tech-related New Year’s resolutions have you made or will you be making? What new technology purchases are on the slate for your CLNC® business? Will it be software, a new computer or something else, perhaps even something at work or for your family? Your new technology may come from some place that surprises you and me both.
I wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year and look forward to sharing more Tuesday Tech Tips along the way.
Keep on techin’,
Tom
P.S.Comment and share either your New Year’s Tech resolutions, or your New Year’s resolutions in general.
5 thoughts on “Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: What’s Your Legal Nurse Consulting Technology New Year’s Resolution?”
I look forward to your Tech Tips every Tuesday! I no longer make resolutions but set goals instead. I use January 1st to contemplate where I’ve been, where I am, and where I want to go. I compare the goals from past years to see/realize what I have accomplished. I set 1 yr goals, 5 yr goals and 10 yr goals. I write them down and put them away. Somehow that kicks my subconscious into gear and I seem to accomplish goals without consciously working toward them and sometimes not realizing it until I review them. I try to keep them realistic and meaningful…now, about your second resolution…have you used Sharepoint? We have started using it in our office and I am sold! you can share documents and there is a discussion board…you control who sees what…check it out…and have a great day!
Thank You Tom for all your Tuesday tech tips!!! I am so glad you are there for Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. One of my New Year’s goals is to set up my new notebook PC I received back in early December!!! I have it set up with my cell phone service as my laptop at home is set up with my land line. Very Excited to to finish my CLNC® training now that my house is in order after the holidays and such. Have set up another new business as well as organizing my office for CLNC® studies and work. Take care!
Can’t wait to be more portable that ever with a lighter weight PC!!
I received an engraved iPad for Christmas from my awesome husband! My resolution was to get an app to transfer documents from my laptop for consulting work as well as for a medical records interpretation class that I teach. While speaking with an Apple rep. about my iPhone, he suggested the “iWork” series, specifically “pages,” to create, import & share Word documents. So sad that it took me about a month to get to it because it was ridiculously easy to transfer documents. It’s great to take the iPad to do work when I travel & teach instead of lugging around my dinosaur laptop.
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Keep on techin’,
I look forward to your Tech Tips every Tuesday! I no longer make resolutions but set goals instead. I use January 1st to contemplate where I’ve been, where I am, and where I want to go. I compare the goals from past years to see/realize what I have accomplished. I set 1 yr goals, 5 yr goals and 10 yr goals. I write them down and put them away. Somehow that kicks my subconscious into gear and I seem to accomplish goals without consciously working toward them and sometimes not realizing it until I review them. I try to keep them realistic and meaningful…now, about your second resolution…have you used Sharepoint? We have started using it in our office and I am sold! you can share documents and there is a discussion board…you control who sees what…check it out…and have a great day!
Debi, Thanks for the tip on SharePoint. It’s on my list of things to check out this year. I appreciate your feedback. Tom
Thank You Tom for all your Tuesday tech tips!!! I am so glad you are there for Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. One of my New Year’s goals is to set up my new notebook PC I received back in early December!!! I have it set up with my cell phone service as my laptop at home is set up with my land line. Very Excited to to finish my CLNC® training now that my house is in order after the holidays and such. Have set up another new business as well as organizing my office for CLNC® studies and work. Take care!
Can’t wait to be more portable that ever with a lighter weight PC!!
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I received an engraved iPad for Christmas from my awesome husband! My resolution was to get an app to transfer documents from my laptop for consulting work as well as for a medical records interpretation class that I teach. While speaking with an Apple rep. about my iPhone, he suggested the “iWork” series, specifically “pages,” to create, import & share Word documents. So sad that it took me about a month to get to it because it was ridiculously easy to transfer documents. It’s great to take the iPad to do work when I travel & teach instead of lugging around my dinosaur laptop.
Hi Tom,
Thanks for your advice. I just downloaded lookout Mobile Security for my Android. Have a great day!