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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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Do you know anyone who might be interested in seeing this e-zine? Please feel free to recommend it to them and invite them to subscribe. 

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Linda  Johnson
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