Volume 1, June 1, 2001: Welcome Charter Members!
Hi to all.....and Welcome to ABC
~All 'Bout Computers~
Happy Birthday to US! This is the first issue of a
newsletter I have been wanting to create for a long time.
Now, thanks to all of your encouragement and suggestions,
here it is.
Interested in joining my fleet of expert contributors? I can sure use
your help! If you are an expert in some area of computing and would like
to contribute about 2 to 4 hours a month to this endeavor, please send an email linda@personal-computer-tutor.com.
Though I
cannot pay you, I would be happy to promote you and your website through
this medium.
Don't be
shy! Write to me and tell me what you are good at!
First, let me tell you what I hope to include inside each newsletter.
The first part will always be an up-to-date report on what's new on
my website. Obviously, what's new and consuming most of
my time right now is THIS newsletter and the online ezine. This
online version is still under construction, but you should bookmark
it and check it out often.
Right
now I'm trying to construct a Discussion Forum so you can have
another avenue to get your questions answered without having to wait
for the next issue of the newsletter. But, this only works if you
use it, so go to the Lounge give it a try! Also, I want to start
collecting all of your
favorite computer websites so you can clean up your Favorites Folder.
Send them to me and I will post them at our ezine site. Then you can
take them off your hard drive and access them from here. (At least
here, I can promise you they will stay in alphabetical order! LOL) I
also want to start collecting computer humor here, so send me all
you got!
Eventually I hope to have a fleet of experts who will be able to
contribute tips and suggestions in each issue. Presently,
Parker Renaud has signed up to be my expert on Outlook in the
Corporate Environment....so I'm looking forward to his words of
wisdom when it comes to Outlook and how it plays with the Exchange
Server.
And, Tina Clarke from
AccessFP has agreed to give us excellent FrontPage advice.
When it comes to FrontPage, I may use it but Tina
knows it.
Also, I am very happy to say that Hal Cardona,
PC Sleuth has volunteered to be the Hardware expert for this
forum. I'm telling you gang that we couldn't ask for better. I
met Hal through a Windows email group and he saved my butt many
times. I trust him so much that I ended up buying my newest computer
from him. And Hal doesn't only know hardware....he's a whiz at
networking and all Operating Systems too. So, I'm here to tell you
that you can completely trust any advice he gives you.
If
anything, all of the members of my Expert Fleet have shown me that
their advice is not only sound, but conservative. I've never seen
any of them give advice that could be harmful to someone's computer
or operating system, without full warning. These experts are
good. To learn more about them, click on
MEET THE FLEET
Hopefully, by the time the first REAL newsletter comes out, (probably
mid June 2001),I will have added some more to my fleet. Until then, I
will have to fill in the gaps as best I can. If anyone reading this
feels they can contribute to this newsletter in any way, please
feel free to contact me at linda@personal-computer-tutor.com.
My most urgent needs are for experts on Access, VBA,
and Web Design, or whatever you might think these readers need to know.
Of course, I'll be better able to determine that if the readers let me
know what they want. Don't be shy!
Along with the collections of tips and advice on all the Microsoft
software and operating systems, I would eventually like to include some
stuff on Adobe, Macromedia, and PowerQuest. Any experts lurking out
there?
Also, in this newsletter, I would like to include a question and
answer section, where your questions can get full coverage. If nothing
else, I will answer them as best I can. And, if I'm stumped, I will
check with the fleet and see if they can help me out. But, I assure you
I will do everything I can to get you an answer or two.
Send your
questions to linda@personal-computer-tutor.com
(I can't
promise to answer all questions, but I sure will do my best.)
Another part of the newsletter will address current issues
regarding software upgrades, patches, etc. Though I will not be advising
you of every virus that comes around, I will occasionally mention those
that I feel are especially dangerous.
So, this is just some of what I'm dreaming of. I hope you all will
bear with me until I get things smoothed out and running. I'm thinking
the format will be plain text so it reads well on all systems......but
there will be a table of contents at the top that will link to an online
version, for those of you who would prefer HTML versions. This also
should appeal to those of you who would rather check out specific
articles to jump to instead of reading the entire plain text newsletter.
This is the best solution I can come up with at this time. If it doesn't
work, I will adjust it in the future.
Now, the last point I want to cover is TIMING. At this time, the
newsletter will be published when I have enough info to publish it.
Since all of the contributors to this newsletter are doing this on a
voluntary basis, we must all be patient and give them enough time to fit
us into their schedules. I'm assuming this will be published about
once a month. If information starts coming into me more often than that,
I will get it off to you as soon as possible. If it's a slow month and
no one contributes or asks questions, then it might be 6 weeks between
issues. I'm gonna have to play this one newsletter at a time for now.
Anyway....Thank you all for being charter subscribers and I hope I
won't let you down.
Please send any questions you might want answered, or any suggestions
for tips or tutorials you would like, or just a note to let me know what
kind of things you would like to see included.
Send all requests to linda@personal-computer-tutor.com
Or drop
by Linda's
Computer Stop and drop me an email from there.
Interested in joining my Fleet of expert contributors? I can sure use your
help! If you are an expert in some area of computing and would like to
contribute about 2 to 4 hours a month to this endeavor, please send an email to linda@personal-computer-tutor.com.
Though I cannot pay you, I
would be happy to promote you and your website through this medium.
Don't be shy! Write to me
and tell me what you're good at!
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