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Friday, September 03, 2010
  • Barbara Sehr in Print
  • Barbara Sehr in Print
  • Barbara Sehr in Print
  • Barbara Sehr in Print
  • Barbara Sehr in Print
  • Barbara Sehr in Print

Barbara Sehr CV

Celebrate Diversity

Speaker, Content Writer, Blogger, Editor

Diversity of Skills

Presenter:

Barbara head shot 73109Barbara Sehr has appeared before live audiences at national conferences and at comedy clubs and a national television audience in Canada.  She brings her professional stand-up sense of humor and her inspiring  personal story to entertain and educate.

 

Among her presentation skills:

  • Frequent conference presenter
  • Multiple winner of Toastmaster Humorous Speech competitions.
  • PowerPoint expertise
  • Speechwriter for executives at two technology companies.

 

Columnist/Blogger:
SeattlePI.com City Brights

Barbara offers her written opinion in many forms, most recently as a blogger on a multitude of high-traffic sites. Before the World Wide Web, Barbara had featured columns in magazines and newspapers.

  • Blogger  for Seattle Pi.com City Brights
  • Blogger for Microsoft’s MSN Technology and Gadgets Site
  • Blogger for X-10 Electronics Community Site
  • Blogger for YES! Magazine
  • Initiated a newspaper political humor column at the Vallejo (CA) Times-Herald (1980)
  • Weekly Columnist on DEC VAX Storage Issues for Digital News
  • Weekly technology
    Columnist for Bellevue Journal American
  • Created  Political Humor from the Mining Company online  (now About.com)

Contributing Writer:
Contributing Writer
As a trained journalist, Barbara knows how to write up "just the facts" for newspapers, magazines, and now for online publications.

  • Contributor to Microsoft Office Online.
  • Contributor to Microsoft Press Pass.
  • Wrote internal Getty Images newsletter for HR linking offices around the world.
  • Regular contributor to ComputerWorld magazine in 1980s.
  • Contributor to numerous business magazines including California BusinessPuget Sound Business JournalDatamation.

Content Manager:

In the sock-puppet era of Web startups at the turn of the century, Barbara served as the creator of content for a small startup delivering 39 channels of information to aging populations, left out of the Internet revolution.

 

Online Editor:

Barbara began her career as a copy editor for a major metropolitan daily newspaper. Over her career, she has kept her editing pencil sharp.

  • Edited diverse sites for Linda Werner & Associates
  • Online Editor for YES! Magazine,  creating monthly newsletters, content for non-profit publisher
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PC Technician:

Few technical writers have the capacity to assemble a computer from the motherboard up. Barbara offers services to small businesses like Seattle's City Insurance Center that includes hardware, software installation and LAN maintenance.

 

 

HTML Coder:
Barbara learned the power of HTML from scratch, by coding from a text editor in her work for the Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 site.

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Print Media
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Barbara has been West Coast Editor for two national computer magazines:

  • Mini-Micro Systems

Magazine

  • Computer Systems News

 

Newspaper Reporter:

Barbara covered crime beat at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.