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Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Patch the Patches on Your Legal Nurse Consulting Business’s Computer

The Internet has brought an age of convenience for Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. It gives you the ability to market and research that is unparalleled in history. With that opportunity comes some danger and today, one of the safest forms of communicating with attorney-clients has been turned against us. Documents created in the super-hand portable document format (PDF) used to be the safest form of sharing documents. Everyone could open them, read them safely and we’d all see the document exactly as its creator intended. Life with PDFs was good.

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Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Certified Legal Nurse Consultants: Time to Start Practicing Safer Wireless Surfing

I spend a lot of time in airports. Sometimes it seems that the actual flying is the shortest part of the trip. The greater amount of time is spent getting to the airport, passing through the body-cavity checks and double-TSA pat-downs (I’m a sucker for the pat-downs). Then there’s looking for the closest Starbucks®, food (preferably Popeye’s Chicken) and restrooms (in that order). Eventually I find myself sitting in the airline’s lounge chowing down on free drinks and peanuts or sitting on the floor outside the gate with the rest of the steerage passengers I boot up my laptop and log onto the closest free Wi-Fi signal I can find. Here’s a savvy geek-traveler trip – look for the largest airline club. They often have free Wi-Fi for their members and you can soak up some of the over-flow/leakage just by sitting outside their lounge with your wireless card switched on and sponging off their service.

It Pays to Be Prepared as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant

When you walk into an attorney-prospect’s office you will want the attorney to view you as a professional who produces quality and professional work. To accomplish this goal, it pays to be prepared. One Certified Legal Nurse Consultant shared with me how she learned this lesson the hard way.

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Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Certified Legal Nurse Consultants: Time to Be Alert (We Need More Lerts)!

For a busy CLNC® consultant staying up with pertinent information on the web can be pretty time consuming. There’s an awful lot of information that changes on a daily, hourly, even as-you-read-this basis. One way for you to stay on top of the news or the latest changes in a subject of interest for your legal nurse consulting business is to use RSS feeds on a customized Google or Yahoo! homepage.

You Have All the Gear You Need for Your Legal Nurse Consulting Business – It’s Time to Put It to Use

The weather has finally turned to fall here in Houston. This means that for a too-short period of time, those summer days of 104+ degrees are gone. Our recent mornings have been in the low 60’s, what we currently consider “crisp.” Morning is my favorite time and Tom and I are out well before the sun comes up for a walk around our “hood.” This morning was a little extra crisp so I went to get a light jacket and also noticed my hiking gear, my arctic gear, my rain gear and even my diving gear.

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Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Should I Put My Legal Nurse Consulting Computer to Sleep at Night or Let it Hibernate?

I was working out the other day and, in order to drive the pain as far from my consciousness as possible, my trainer and I were discussing some issues he was having with his Apple® laptop. Now, I don’t know much about Macs® and I didn’t sleep in a Holiday Inn Express Sunday night but I was more than willing to give him some free tech advice (and forestall any more sets of lunges).

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Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Should a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant be Seen in Public with an iPhone Stylus?

The longer you’re in the world of technology, the more iterations of devices you see. Some are good, some are bad. I remember when I left (unwillingly) my paper DayTimers®, was issued a PDA (Personal Data Assistant) and had to learn how to use a stylus to write that silly Palm® language. The stylus was like a mechanical pencil without lead and was constantly getting lost. I still occasionally find one under a desk or in the back of my sock drawer. The only thing cool about my PDA was that the cover flipped up like a communicator on Star Trek® (the original series). At the time, PDAs were a must-have for every Certified Legal Nurse Consulting business.

*The opinions and statements made by Vickie Milazzo, the founder of Medical-Legal Consulting Institute, Inc. are based on her experiences and expertise, should not be applied beyond the specific context provided, and do not guaranty or project actual results. Vickie Milazzo is no longer involved in the operations or management of the business, but is involved as an independent education consultant.

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