MERRIETECH
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Hello
Hello, and welcome to our latest outpost on the intra super webby highway thing.
I’m really excited about the launch of MerrieTech. I’ve been very lucky to have the equivalent of a resident IT Director as I’ve navigated MerrieGroup and MerrieMarketing out there on the Internet.
I know from talking to many of you that you don’t have your own IT expert on hand. Well, why not borrow mine?
I’ve convinced Peter to provide content related to technical matters. This content is very different to the marketing and business based content we usually provide and so we decided it needed its own site.
Welcome to MerrieTech.
Train Yourself
It came as something of a shock to myself just how uncomfortable some people are around PC’s, It was less of a shock to Peter, he has in a former life managed IT Help Desks.
If you’re serious about using computers for any significant area of your business, you need to be comfortable around them.
You do however need to be honest with yourself. If the very thought of turning on a computer leaves you rigid with fear and you can’t tell your URL from your search bar then it’s possibly time you invested in yourself and did a little hands on training.
There are lots of cheap cheerful short courses around that will get most people over the basics of driving a computer pretty quickly. Try local colleges and schools, libraries, village or town community centres. If all else fails, talk to the local teenagers!
After all, as Peter has often remarked. Computers are just dumb insolent beasts that only understand 1’s and 0’s programmed by others you’ve never met to do things you didn’t know you wanted! If your TV or home telephone behaved like your PC does, how many people would bother watching?
