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26Aug2015

Tom’s Tech Tip: Put Windows “Previous Versions” to Work for Your Legal Nurse Consulting Business

Like most Certified Legal Nurse Consultants, when typing a new document I’ll use an earlier version of a similar document as a template. As a best practice, I immediately retitle the old document with the new document name and save that new document with its new name. By doing so, I don’t accidently overwrite the old document. Sound confusing? It’s not. And, as long as you do it religiously, it works great and any reasonably disciplined CLNC consultant can, and should, do it.

19Aug2015

Tom’s Tech Tip: What a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant Should Do with Email from the Living Dead

Yesterday I received an email from someone I know who passed on about this time last year. It isn’t the first time he emailed me posthumously, and it won’t be the last. In fact, he isn’t the only dead person that emails me. What is so urgent that this legion of apparently living dead have to communicate from the other side? Well, as you can guess, it was spam and not for life-extending supplements.

12Aug2015

Tom’s Tech Tip: Certified Legal Nurse Consultants – Here’s Your Second, Second Chance

Last week we discussed a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant’s ability to delay sending an email long enough for your conscience to kick in and delete it, thus stopping you from doing something extremely dangerous to your legal nurse consulting business and professional reputation. This week I’m going to push the envelope a little further and give you another useful tool – the ability to delay sending a text message long enough to recall or delete it.

5Aug2015

Tom’s Tech Tip: Certified Legal Nurse Consultants – Here’s Your Second Chance

Admit it, every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant has been there. In the heat of the moment you compose an email to an attorney-client, CLNC subcontractor or expert witness, click the send button and then, for some reason best left to your particular imagination, immediately decide it’s best if you could un-send or recall that email. But you can’t, what’s sent is sent, and the damage whether it is misspelled words, a badly constructed sentence or a bridge burned completely to the ground, is done.

29Jul2015

Tom’s Tech Tip: Even Certified Legal Nurse Consultants Need Back-UPS

If you’re a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant who is a laptop computer user, you probably don’t have to read this Tech Tip, although I would recommend you do anyway. If you’re a CLNC® consultant who uses only a desktop computer – read on!

22Jul2015

Tom’s Tech Tip: Certified Legal Nurse Consultants Enjoy Easy Fixes for What Ails a Windows Computer

The Windows operating system and its associated Microsoft Office applications, in all of their various forms, can often be buggy and frustrating to use. MS Office programs run normally for months, then for no apparent reason, crash every time you put in a period (.).

15Jul2015

Tom’s Tech Tip: One Step Every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant Should Take on Facebook

This Tech Tip isn’t about protecting your personal information, it’s more about preserving or deleting it. Every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant has probably run across a Facebook page belonging to someone who’s deceased. It might have been a friend, a nursing colleague from your RN hospital job, a CLNC subcontractor or an attorney-client (which explains the unpaid invoices). The problem with Facebook is that if someone doesn’t have the log-in credentials to close an account, after someone passes, the page(s) remains forever.

8Jul2015

Tom’s Tech Tip: It’s Time for All Certified Legal Nurse Consultants to Reboot!

How often you reboot your computer depends on a number of factors. If you use a laptop in your legal nurse consulting business you probably reboot it more often than a desktop user. Some laptop users (like me) have a dock armed with dual monitors, keyboard, mouse, etc. Others simply put their laptop on a desk and snap it open or closed as necessary.

1Jul2015

Tom’s Tech Tip: All Certified Legal Nurse Consultants Should Search Before They Call (Tech Support)

Something I’ve learned about computer problems is that I’m not the only one experiencing them. Yes, Mr. Thomas Tech-Tip has computer issues – probably more than most people. But something I’ve learned is that no matter what your problem may be, there is a high probability that someone else is experiencing it or has experienced it in the past.

24Jun2015

Tom’s Tech Tip: Bluetooth and Padlocks – the Perfect Combination for Certified Legal Nurse Consultants

Remember that old-fashioned combination lock you had on your locker in gym class, nursing school, your RN hospital job or at your CrossFit® class? If you do, I’m sure you also remember that you always had trouble remembering the combination.

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