
Deciding When to Use New Technology
Before we had “social media” we had “social drinking” and, of course, “social diseases” – that euphemism for those things only bad people got. While technology has surrounded this profession, the last dose of technology this industry universally appreciated was gravity. Today we talk about the new-fangled technology as if every funeral home in America has actually abandoned their push letter message boards. Nope, I am a cynic. I know better. So, when I have to write about “new technology,” I am going old school.
To me, all the technological tools available to this profession are wonderful. Some are more wonderful than others. Those that actually work are really super wonderful.
Don’t lump me in a class of those funeral curmudgeons that still brag that…