LYNN WALFORD
 Writer/Reporter

Writing and Work Experience

Writer, since 1990, for publications that include: Dig-iT, The Los Angeles Times, Success, UPI, Computeredge, Business Start-Ups, Compute, The Office, PC Laptop, HomePC, FamilyPC and Income Opportunities (scroll down page for clips.)  I wrote the first-prize winning entry for Consumer Electronics Show,  Best of CES 2004. I am currently writing advertising brochures and media releases. Companies worked with include: Bright Strategic Design, Dharmata, WGD-Media, and DSLV Lawlor Advertising. I just completed an extensive analysis of demographics, marketing, security and technology for a financial institution service organization.

Feature Writer, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY -  I took the very complicated world of technology/business  and made it understandable to everyone. Cutting edge technologies/ fast-growing businesses are covered in hundreds of articles.  1998 - 2002

Author of Make Money with Your PC The Next Generation Guide to Starting and Running Successful PC/Internet-Based Businesses, Editions 1-3. 1992 - present.

Program Director of The Los Angeles Computer Society and former Director of Special Programs for Independent Writers of Southern California. Member of Alameda Writers Group and San Gabriel Valley Poets. 

Keynote Speaker at major computer user groups and speaker at The Southern California Conference for Women Business Owners.  1991 - Present.

Radio and Television Appearances over 50 appearances which include: Nationally Syndicated Shows, America's Talking, KFI, KCBS, MNN and KFJC. Audio and video available by request.  1994 - Present.

B.A. Pomona College, Claremont, CA.

Paperless Clips (PDF & RTF)
 If You Want DSL Connection, Be Ready to DIY - learn how to install your own DSL from IBD.
 E-Mail Must Go Through--Usually - IBD feature about the failure of free e-mail services.
CyberAngels -  story I broke in The Los Angeles Times, which later got picked up by all major wire services and prime time TV news shows. 
Net Revenues - Technology Edge feature, Success Magazine.
 CyberSex at Work - United Press International, feature 1995.
Why Didn't I Think of That? - about creativity software for Compute.
It's a Virtual Life? - humorous essay from The IWOSC Independent.
Touched by Feldenkrais - from New Age Journal.

Web Clips
 Computers for People with Disabilites from the L.A. Times.
 Cyberslacking  article from IBD. 
 Dig-iT -  a brand new form of digital lifestyle feature, I invented, in the premiere issue.
 Investor's Business Daily - search keyword "Lynn Walford", select "All Dates" for date of article, click search.

Computer/Business Teacher and Lecturer  - I teach Make Money with Your PC  and Business/Marketing at East Los Angeles College.  I teach computers at The Homecare Workers Training Center.  I have taught software and business classes at Valley College, Pierce, El Camino, LACC, L.A. Mission College, Santa Monica College and University of California, Santa Barbara and Riverside. 1991 -  Present.

Adjunct Professor, Emeritus College - I taught Windows, Internet,  and Microsoft Word to senior citizens.  Developed and taught one of the first authorized WebTV /Internet classes for older adults in the U.S.  1996 -1999.

Software Knowledge: MS Office, Front Page, Ventura, PageMaker, Corel Draw!, Fireworks, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Eudora, Fireworks, Quicken, WordPerfect, Fox, HTML, Adobe Acrobat, MAC OS, AOL, FTP,  Lotus, WinFax Pro, MS Works, Gem, ReaderWorks Publisher, OmniPagePro, and Netware.

Please note, for many years I had the e-mail address mspcbiz@earthlink.net.  I longer have that e-mail address.  Please send e-mail to lwriter@charter.net.

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