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3Nov2011

Do You Tweet Happiness as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant?

A recent analysis of the stream of Twitter “tweets” reveals that people are happy in the morning, less happy throughout the day while they’re at work and then happier again after work when back at home. That’s a pretty revealing study which suggests that most people are compartmentalizing their life into a work life and a personal life. But the reality is, we don’t have two-compartment lives. We only have one life. Most of us spend more time at work than with our families. You can’t turn happiness off at work and go home and turn it on and expect to have a passionate, purpose-filled life.

2Nov2011

Certified Legal Nurse Consultants – It’s Time to Put Down the Phone and Drive!

Savvy CLNC® consultants have realized that smartphones are their mobile office and use them not just to talk with their attorney-clients, but also to keep up with their appointments, contacts and important email. No more waiting until you get to your computer to check your email or respond to an attorney-client.

1Nov2011

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Don’t Throw Away Your Old Legal Nurse Consulting Razr or iPhone3 Yet!

Like most Certified Legal Nurse Consultants, I’ve recycled more than a few older phones – flip phones, handsets and various models of the Blackberry®. I’ve always been a little uncomfortable wondering where exactly the final resting place for those phones is and if they’ve been properly broken down or just ended up in a landfill.

27Oct2011

What Do Certified Legal Nurse Consultants Who Multitask Know That You Don’t?

I always start my day with a plan and usually before 9:00am I am busting that plan. Over the years I know I’ve wrecked more than a few of my executives’ days because my management style is dynamic and priorities change unexpectedly. I believe my job is similar to an emergency nurse – to triage company priorities every second of the day.

26Oct2011

A New Marketing Strategy for Certified Legal Nurse Consultants

You’ve QA’d your legal nurse consulting business, but have you QR’d it? QR, or quick response, codes are all the rage in the advertising world. These are the small images or blocks of computer code you see in magazine ads, boarding passes and newspapers. When you see a QR code, you simply need to focus your smartphone’s camera on it (and have the right app) and it will take you to a webpage selected by the QR code’s author.

25Oct2011

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: What’s the Best Computing Choice for Your Legal Nurse Consulting Business – Your Lap or Your Desk?

CLNC® consultants often ask me, “Tom, should I buy a laptop or desktop for my legal nurse consulting business?” As always, my answer is firm and definite: “Well, my CLNC® amigo, it depends.” I love my laptop, but then again, I’m a mobile user shifting between the home office, the office office, the airplane office and the road office. On any given day I can be working from my lap in some mobile location. I’ll be logged into the Institute’s network through my Verizon wireless card from a conference room, camped out on the couch in our hotel room and once (well, maybe twice) in the backseat of a hotel’s airport shuttle van crunching away on a deadline.

18Oct2011

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: What’s Your Legal Nurse Consulting Status (Bar) Say About You?

Certified Legal Nurse Consultants who are Microsoft® Word users have long taken advantage of the built-in Track Changes function as well as some of Word’s other innate abilities, such as counting words in a document, inserting or overwriting and more. But one of the issues I’ve run into with Track Changes is that I can forget that it’s enabled, especially if I’m in Final display mode and may be inadvertently tracking what I’m doing… Not good if I forward my completed Word document to another who may then peer into the meta-data and see my changes and revisions.

13Oct2011

Certified Legal Nurse Consultants – Are You Taking Yourself Too Seriously?

One of my favorite quotes by Shinichi Suzuki states: “What we’re doing here is so important we’d better not take it too seriously!” I think CLNC® consultants excel at this in part because of our background in nursing. As nurses, we deal in serious subjects: death, disease and dismemberment – just to name the fun parts of the job. Then there are the short staffing and floating issues, arrogant doctors and administrators who are out of touch.

11Oct2011

Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: What’s the Password to Legal Nurse Consulting Success?

That’s actually a trick question. The real question is whether or not you should use a password on the smartphone or tablet you use in your CLNC® business. What’s that you say? Passwords are too cumbersome and time-consuming? Well, let me ask you, what do you think would be more time-consuming: taking two seconds to type in a 4-digit passcode each time you reach for your device, or untangling your life after someone has stolen your banking information, all of your contacts, possibly your identity, has read and forwarded your email and just wrought havoc with your life because you’ve lost your smartphone and it has fallen into the hands of some villain?

Year: 2011