Please introduce yourself

[admin]

So we can get to know you a bit better please provide a little information about yourself

• Who you are
• Where you live
• Your day-job
• Your blogging goals
• Your existing blogs (if any)
• ... and anything else we might find useful for getting to know you better

I will start!

I'm Chris Garrett, most of you will probably know me (you ended up here somehow!). I live in Yorkshire, England, with my wife and daughter (plus two chubby cats). This is my day job

Edit: Unfortunately only one cat now but around same time added a dog

My main blog is http://www.chrisg.com/ where I blog about online marketing, new media and blogging. Other than getting back into the technorati 100 my goal is to help other people achieve their own goals and get more out of the web.

Over to you, please introduce yourself

Added: We have also now got a Flickr map so we can see visually where everyone is from, please add yours?

[Pauli]

I guess I'll go first.

Who you are : Pauli Price

Where you live : NYC, NY USA

Your day-job : IT consultant in the securities industry - trading systems, portfolio mgmt systems, hedge funds, capital markets, etc.

Your blogging goals : indirectly market my startup, which is currently pre-alpha

Your existing blogs (if any) : Riverdale Station - www.blog.priceweiss.com - pretty much abandoned - but it does have one good post, and might be revived someday

mother of 8yr old twins, moderator in SBI forums - integrating 3rd party products, Monetize It and E-goods Resources.

Pauli

www.ContentAmplified.com

[admin]

Thanks Pauli, welcome

[AdamG]

G'day,

I'm AdamG, on account of that there was already another Adam in another forum so I have stuck with it.

I live in Darwin at the Top End of Down Under. Do I have to explain that? Australia is sometimes known by our Pommie cousins as "Down Under", and the bit I live in is about dead centre on the north coast of Oz, and known in Oz as the "Top End".

What do I do - well, I help small business owners and manager whose sales are costing them profits. Most small businesses are started by someone who is go=od at what they do, whether it be a mechanic or IT specialist. Their problem is that is becoming good at what they do they have not had the time to learn how to manage a business,, understand their financial statements or focus on building a business.

Consequently they leak profits, because they don't know how to identify profit leaks, or how to stop them if they can find them. That's my job.

My blogging goals - I want to become less dependent on one-on-one consulting locally, and leverage my knowledge and 18 years experience in doing this into products saleable to wider markets.

On-line sales are the way to do this but I have to build a list and demonstrate knowledge and expertise. Blogging, and writing articles is how I am doing this.It is a very slow process, possibly as my target market is not likely to be a natural on-line person, so I have to drive them there.

You can find my current blog here http://www.profitsleakdetective.com/blog/

I'm not sure that it is really a blog. I try to write a brief conversational piece a directed at a key person in my target market.

[admin]

Welcome Adam I don't know about mechanics but I am guessing there are a ton of IT people reading blogs

[Pauli]

Adam,

There are lots of people starting companies that might be very interested in how to start off right, operationally. You might like to look at startupping.com and GoBig.com

I'm a prime candidate for finding out how to do things right from the beginning.

Pauli

[AdamG]

Thanks Pauli,

I'll go and have a look.

[web-wahm]

Hello, my turn for an intro...

Who you are : Adele

Where you live : Wakefield, UK

Your day-job : I guess I'm a webmaster, but just for myself. I work at home 'online', building my sites with SBI and being a mum in between...or should that be the other way round LOL

Your blogging goals : To get to grips with it properly - I toy with it, and I'm supposed to be able to blog in 'just 15 mins a day'...but it doesn't work like that for me and it seems to be fairly intensive - I may as well just make pages for my sites from the content.

To me, it seems the distinctions are blurring somewhat between websites and blogs, but I think 'blog stuff' gets out there more than content pages, I dunno...I'm here to find out what it's all really about.

Your existing blogs (if any) : Not pure blogs, but I 'blog' within my websites, the main one being on my craft site
- here I started to blog about general stuff but then realised I might as well make pages, so now I'm trying to stick to 'time sensitive' stuff.

I have 2 other sites lagging behind development-wise, one which lends itself very well to blogging rather than pure content (http://www.great-kids-tv.com) and the other which is about working from home - working on my newsletter 'No Cheese Please' but I'm wondering if this should be blog-based instead.

Single mum to 2 little girls, growing a chip on my shoulder though because of the comments I get about my so-called 'job' ... I treat my websites as a proper job (the taxman sure agrees with me!) and I should be damned proud of what I do, but I'm increasingly embarrassed to admit what I do

Adele

[admin]

Hi Adele, good to have you on board

Don't be hard on yourself about "just 15 mins" - while some people can blog in 15 minutes a day (perhaps someone as organised as Darren), but I find I am way too anal to be able to knock out 15 minute posts let alone answer all my comments in 15 minutes. When I am really rocking I can turn out hundreds and thousands of words very quickly but then comes the editing ... I have stuff lying around still unpublished because I could never get it "just right"

I appreciate what you are saying about the "real job" thing. It's a little easier for me as I tell people I am a consultant which has the instant eye-glaze effect so no further questions are usually forthcoming

You might try telling people you are a writer if people don't like the webmaster/etc thing - you are!

[DamianM]

Hi, My name is Damian.

I live in Nottingham England. I am a freelance programmer specialising in .net , php , crystal and sql all the usual sort of stuff.

I'm very new to the blogosphere , I started blogging when I set up my Company and personal websites using Wordpress for content management.

I've been in computing of some sort for over 20 years doing both programming and maintenance. I have reacenlty set up my own company DCoda Ltd, after after serving 17 years in a College MIS section.

My blogging goals, well, not really sure, maybe to eventually join in the with online comunity that i've be on the edges of so far. To get my self known and maybe get a little work out of it too.