Plain-spoken tech help for real-life decisions.
Keeping Technology Simple is a pragmatic tech-help program built around real household and business problems. Jim Blue steers listeners through fraud prevention, college communication plans, device choices, LinkedIn job search, and Microsoft changes without assuming deep technical knowledge.
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Keeping Technology Simple is built for listeners who do not want technology explained as an abstract industry story. It starts with practical pressure points. Tax season raises identity-theft concerns, so the program turns to income tax fraud, Social Security numbers, Medicare cards, online tax providers, and the everyday habit of giving sensitive information to offices that may not need it. A child going off to college becomes a reason to review video calling, personal email accounts, cell phone coverage, international plans, laptops, cameras, and access to school information. Career transition becomes a conversation about LinkedIn, recruiters, online visibility, and the new expectations facing people who have not searched for work in many years. The pacing is traditional radio: setup, guest conversation, break, return, recap. Jim Blue keeps the tone accessible and often frames questions from the point of view of parents, older adults, and busy professionals. The show is not trying to make listeners love every new device. It is trying to help them make fewer costly assumptions. Episodes weigh PCs against Macs, iPhones against Android phones, credit cards against debit cards, and school email against personal email. Security advice is recurring and blunt, especially around identity theft and fraud. The program also uses guests to add authority without turning the hour into jargon. Steve Weissman brings scam and identity-theft expertise. Carl Mazzanti explains Microsoft and Windows 8 in relation to tablets, phones, synchronization, and Apple’s influence. Ford Myers connects technology to job search behavior and professional networking. Across its episodes, the show’s center of gravity is clear: technology should match the user’s needs, budget, privacy concerns, and family situation. It suits people who want patient explanation, not hype. It also suits listeners who are willing to take basic preventive steps before a device, account, or service becomes a problem.
Made for: The show is for parents, baby boomers, seniors, people in career transition, and business users who want technology explained through concrete decisions. It especially suits listeners concerned about privacy, fraud, communication costs, and keeping up with changing devices.
What sets it apart: Keeping Technology Simple stands apart by tying tech advice to recognizable life events: tax filing, college departure, job search, and changing computer habits. Its guest conversations stay grounded in what a nontechnical listener should do next.
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A plain, useful tax-season reminder to treat Social Security number exposure as an identity-theft risk worth managing.
Tax season gives Keeping Technology Simple a clear way into identity theft, and the episode keeps the subject grounded. Host Jim Blue speaks with Steve Weissman, a lawyer, Bentley University professor, and scams and identity-theft expert, about why the Social Security number…
A clear tax-time reminder to protect Social Security numbers, Medicare cards, and personal data requests.
Keeping Technology Simple turns tax season into a focused cybersecurity conversation, with Jim Blue and Steve Weissman looking at income tax fraud through the everyday risks around Social Security numbers.
A clear communications checklist for parents sending a college student far from home.
Keeping Technology Simple frames a college move as a practical contact plan, with Jim Blue looking at how parents and students can stay connected across distance.
A plainspoken look at Microsoft's place in the shift from regular computers to mobile devices.
Microsoft is presented at a familiar tech turning point: PC sales are down nearly 14% in the first quarter, tablets and smartphones are part of the pressure, and Windows 8 takes some of the blame.
A practical guide to choosing a tablet based on needs, budget, and business use.
Jim Blue frames the tablet boom as a practical guide for buyers, keeping the focus on needs, preferences, comfort level, and budget. It is at its best when it shifts away from market noise and toward real choices, including wireless access and whether a tablet makes more sense…
Simple answers for messy digital life.
Tech directions for small businesses, from a self-taught navigator.
Click-by-click tech tips with under-caffeinated humor
Tax identity thieves use a victim’s Social Security number and a counterfeit W-2 to file first, and the IRS may send a refund within 21 days.
Jim Blue and Steve Weissman explain how criminals use names, Social Security numbers, and counterfeit W-2s to file fraudulent electronic tax returns before legitimate taxpayers.
Jim Blue and identity-theft expert Steve Weissman explain how criminals file counterfeit electronic tax returns using stolen Social Security numbers and fake W-2 forms before legitimate taxpayers file.
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Jim Blue of Keeping Technology Simple gives parents a communications checklist for college students, including mobile coverage, smartphones, texting, email, and access to school information.
Jim Blue of Keeping Technology Simple interviews Carl Mazzanti, CEO of eMazzanti Technologies and Microsoft Partner of the Year 2012, about Windows 8 and Microsoft's market position following a 14% drop in PC sales.
On Keeping Technology Simple, Jim Blue and career coach Ford Myers examine technology's role in today's job search.
Jim Blue, host of Keeping Technology Simple, interviews IT professional Joseph Feliciano about the tablet market following Apple's announcement of the iPad mini in 2012.