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Ammon
Johns, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Association of Internet Marketing
Professionals is a well respected Internet Marketing Consultant.
"There
is nothing uncanny about what I do, I just spend 16 hours each day
online, and half of it is pure reading and research. My special
talent if I have such a thing, is that I can remember small scraps
of info gleaned from diverse sources over time and later piece them
together."
Born
in 1966, the first experience with computers came at school, dialing
up to the local University mainframe.
"I
spent 3 hours blackening in boxes on a card that would be used as
a template for a punch-card that in turn would be used to get the
computer to calculate a sum I'd worked out in 2 seconds anyway.
I didn't think it had much future as a labour-saving device."
In
later years first encounters with the Sinclair ZX-80 and the Commodore
Pet followed.
"I
first saw a future for computers when I played my first arcade game.
At last a practical application - the leisure industry. Much of
the internet proves that the leisure industry is still hungry for
computers."
In
1983 a job with London's largest education authority led to a City
and Guilds Certificate 734 'Certificate for Learning Resources Technicians'.
"The
course covered every form of media from art to reprographics, computers
to video. This again brought me to work with computers to create
educational material, but combined it with skills in video production
and printing. Combine those skills and you have a webmaster."
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