Help! How Do I?

15/02/2012

Let me take you back to last Monday morning. I was sitting beside my husband Steve, a technology loving, curious CIO (chief information officer).  Steve was on his iPad; me on my new Galaxy Tablet. Steve did his normal “Look at this app Debbie,   BLENDER. It’s amazing, only $1.00 and it blends two images together with fabulous touch and swipe technology.

I guess because I was struggling with that darn Tablet it was the last thing I wanted to hear.  I was personally in the middle of GRRRRR! How does this darn thing work? What are all the icons? What do they do? Ever have that feeling? I bought the Galaxy so I could see what android was like in comparison to the Ipad.  Like you, I need to know about these things for business, I didn’t think about having to learn yet another operating system, Android on top of years of Microsoft and Apple with the iphone. Not to mention the darn things don’t come with user manuals in hand (though who would read them).

Normally I love what Steve shows me but on this occasion, it made me depressed. Why? It highlighted how quickly technology is changing AND the immense amount of things you need to know, the millions of applications there are (but you never heard of) and how very, very hard it is to keep abreast of even a portion of it. 

I know what you’re thinking – if she should know this, or wants to – it’s easy to search, download manuals, look or ask for tips. Yes, you’re right. But if you don’t know there are features you don’t know about or you’re time poor like many – what is the solution?

Here is my 2012 promise to myself. Why don’t you consider something like this too.

Just like you make time for exercise classes (hopefully); time to walk the dogs; read for business education, why not start looking up the manuals and searching for more tips and apps that are applicable to your  business. Make it a twice weekly 15 minute appointment in your diary?

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Written by international speaker and bestselling author Debbie Mayo-Smith For more tips, sign up for her monthly newsletter here.