David Leonard

This blog is for my clients, my potential clients, and myself.

Issues covered will be those typically encountered by this hoped-for readership. Not deeply technical – just useful. So, the average person I have in mind is probably self-employed and quite probably working from home. He/she certainly doesn’t have an IT team around, but needs his computer system to work well enough to be a help rather than a frustration in his/her business.

I’m also now seeing a growing number of my clients expanding their computer activities into leisure use – mainly music and photography – so these subjects will probably be included.

The other probable way in which this will develop is to store and keep references and articles that I think may be useful to clients and myself in the future.

I’m not trying to compete with any whizz-kids or nerds out there writing blogs. I’m too old now to be spending 16 hours a day glued to a computer screen learning all the latest bells and whistles. And I’m certainly old enough to have serious doubts about privacy issues and changing ideas of personal space that the social networking phenomenon introduces (you only need to see my “Linked-In” entry to pick up on that ambivalence). So, instead, I’m going to try and concentrate on that main potential readership and what it could realistically gain from spending a few minutes a week at this site.

I’m keeping open the possibility of adding advertising to this site. It’s a subject I’m very ambivalent about. Maybe I see it as a “necessary evil”. Certainly I myself have been seeking new clients by advertising with Google for a year now and I’m also interested in the possibility of using a blog for another “income stream”. On the other hand, advertising can be so very IRRITATING! We’ll see.

I’m learning about blogging as I’m going along. Don’t know anything yet about feeds or subscriptions or anything like that. Until I get all of this sorted, anyone wishing to contact me should just email me at email@davidleonard.net.

One final introductory comment: I referred to “he/she” above. Very cumbersome. Most of my clients are female. Hope they’ll forgive me if I revert to the old-fashioned inclusive “he” – the alternatives are just too much of a pain to use.

Thanks for reading this far. I hope you’ll come back again when there’s something to read.