Your Tech Tamer

By Sandra Clitter 　http://www.yourtechtamer.com/blog/2010/10/hello-world/

Welcome to the SLC Consulting blog!!!  Here we hope to share helpful tips and tricks that we’ve picked up along the way.  I heard a wonderful description the other day of the way different (ahem!) ages among us deal with technology.

During the 20th century (yes, way back there), many people crossed the oceans to move to the United States.  For many of these immigrants, English was not their native language.  They spoke the language with an immigrant ‘flair’.  Fast forward to the 21st century.  Many of us are not native to the Technology language.  Kids today are native to it.  They are brought up with a joystick or a cell phone (or both) in their hands.

Now is the time to take a deep breath and relax.  Like many of you, I am not a technology native…far from it.  Technology is not intuitive to me.  That said, I have realized that fighting it tooth and nail isn’t going to get me anywhere, and that there is alot that technology can do for me.  So, I work to use it where it makes sense, ignore it where I feel that there is no benefit and I have no interest (beyond an occasional game of Solitaire on my computer, I do NOT play computer games – never have, don’t want to, don’t need to!).  There ARE times where I have no particular interest in the technology, but there IS a benefit, so I just suck it up, and make peace with it.

I guess that’s the bottom line:  Make peace with your technology…it CAN do so much for you.  It CAN make your life alot easier [when its not making it alot harder :-)].  It can open up the world to you.

I hope that we’ll be able to help you along the way…come and make peace with your technology…take a deep breath…you’re probably a technology immigrant – just like me.  I’ve just been lucky enough to get a pretty good hold on the language along the way.