Speaker, Content Writer, Blogger, Editor

Presenter:

Barbara 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:

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:

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 Business,  Puget Sound Business Journal,  Datamation.

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

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.

Print Media:
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.