I'd like to thank Simon Meth and Shally Steckerel for my technological leap today.

Simon had sent me an e-mail in my ERE account on 12/10/06 which I just discovered I had yesterday. Thinking there was probably more out there that I should know about, I started to look around a bit and found a recent post by Shally where he talks about his Google reader. Well, what's all this fuss about a reader I asked myself? Well, I found out today that this is something that will make my life easier, facilitate my blog/post readings and well, it is just plain great! In a matter of minutes I set up my Google Reader with subscriptions to six blogs and now, with just one click I can see what is going on. In less than a minute, I can add additional blogs to my subscriptions . . . .yeah!

The phrase "you don't know what you don't know" seems very appropriate here!

I organized and participated in a training yesterday for the roll-out of E-QIP across the 8 medical centers in our network. E-QIP is a system that will allow candidates to submit their background investigations to us electronically. E-QIP is one of the E-Gov initiatives to automate HR administrative processes and with over 40% of my department's time spent on administrative tasks, I welcome any piece of technology I can get my hands on.

Implementing E-QIP will require some changes to our current process and the changes themselves are not significant. This will also provide us with the opportunity to make other changes to our related processes. What struck me most during the training was some of the comments I heard from another medical center along the lines of, "management will never support this" or "they will never let me do that." Comments like that drive me absolutely crazy.

Yes, there will be bumps in the road; yes, there will be resistance on some fronts; and no, I don't expect all people to welcome change with open arms. What I do expect is for you to identify those bumps, figure out how to transition over them and to, above all, keep the end gains in mind. Some we will be able to implement, others we will not and that should not stop us from even trying. We must be able to anticipate, listen to and address stakeholder concerns and show how making these changes will enable us to serve them better.

Times are changing and you can either be riding the wave or not and be in it as it crashes on the shore. I know where I plan to be, how about you?

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Lisa Rosendahl