David Tebbutt

David has been in the IT world for over 40 years. His principal interest is software. He is now best known as a journalist and communication skills trainer. Previously, he published software, edited Personal Computer World and taught management skills. Before that he pursued the traditional computing career from programmer to IT manager.

His contact with the library world has been primarily through his writing for Information World Review although, in 1980, he started a library initiative called ComputerTown UK.

In recent years, he has spent an inordinate amount of time in the social computing world of blogs, wikis, web 2.0, library 2.0, Second Life and so on. Although officially an observer, he just can't resist getting his hands dirty too.