Brightstone Minutes are bite-sized podcast episodes designed to break down complex tech topics into practical, easy-to-digest insights. Our goal? To help you navigate the fast-moving world of technology with clarity—not just quick fixes, but real solutions. We publish frequently, so check back for more episodes.

Richard HermansonMarch 26, 2025Comment

We're wishing you a bright 2025

The new year is a time to celebrate, reflect, and look ahead to new possibilities. We’re excited to keep supporting you and your tech goals in 2025—and beyond.

Richard HermansonJanuary 10, 2025Comment

Case Study: Bringing New Function to Fashion

Organizational anxiety can destroy time, drain resources, and stifle the ability to innovate. For Portland Fashion Institute, getting past the blockers that were creating anxiety started with a phone call about improving their on-campus wireless connection.

Richard HermansonAugust 21, 2023Comment

Boost Your AI Literacy to Support Your Micro Businesses

There are a lot of AI tools for small and micro businesses. They can help with marketing, sales, customer service, customer experience, hiring, or something else. To gain a better view of AI’s benefits and risks, start by boosting your AI literacy.

Richard HermansonJuly 31, 2023Comment

The Right NAS for Your Surveillance Solution

People and businesses turn to NAS devices to store large amounts of data. The Synology NAS is quickly becoming a go-to data solution for home and business surveillance systems. With Synology software and hardware, we can create a customized security solution for nearly any application, from simple home systems, to complex business or enterprise installations.

Richard HermansonJuly 31, 2023Comment

Tech Challenges, Trends and Solutions for Law Firms and Legal Departments

Among a number of emerging legal tech trends and challenges, many point back to law firms needing to maximize smaller staffing budgets, solve overhead challenges, shift toward a new talent pool, and ease the workloads of specialists.

Richard HermansonJune 5, 2023Comment

The Ins and Outs of Co-Managed IT

Brightstone’s co-managed IT solutions help you get more out of your in-house IT team, reduce IT costs, and access the right expertise when you need to escalate IT support. And that’s just the start.

Richard HermansonMay 31, 2023Comment

Creating Hybrid Learning and Work Environments

We’re well into the days of hybrid learning and working. For classrooms and meetings, setting up the right environment onsite is a big step toward making everyone feel included and involved.

Richard HermansonApril 10, 2023Comment

Passwords Are Dead. Long Live Passkeys.

Passkeys do a great job saving you from worrying about hackers, and even data breaches. For instance, when you use your passkeys, the public key remains with the website or app you’re on.

Lynn MoyersFebruary 23, 2023Comment

Is UniFi the Right Phone Solution for Your Business?

More and more, UniFi is becoming a go-to approach for businesses that require flexibility, ease-of-use, and options that play nicely with remote staffing options.

Lynn MoyersFebruary 22, 2023Comment

Technology Planning For Now and the Future

The future has never been knowable, and never will be. When you accept that premise, it frees you up to an even bigger idea: Just because something is unknowable doesn’t mean you can’t plan for it.

IT PlanningRichard HermansonNovember 28, 2022Tech planning, business technology, BrightstoneComment

Taking a Consultative Approach to Business Technology

As technology consultants, we work to identify challenges, opportunities, & new ideas. In doing so, we make sure that opportunities always point back to a client’s stated objectives and goals.

Richard HermansonNovember 22, 2022business technology, technology consultsComment