Technical Specialties: Awards, Accolades & Affiliations

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Awards

Digital Instruments website:

Designated as a "Cool Site" by the Netscape Open Directory Project
Given the "5%" award by Pointcom
Named a "Successful Technical Website" by R&D Magazine

Accolades

Western Regional Meeting, American Chemical Society, [the conference is long over, and like a good steward, the pages have been removed, sorry.]

Hi Bobbie, Just saw your new WERM page. GREAT! good show, so much more attractive and accessible than earlier version.
Dr. B. F. Rickborn, UCSB Chemistry Department
Your pages for the meeting are spectacular. Thank you so much, everything does look beautiful! . . . Thanks again for doing such a great job for the section.
Dr. Sandra Lamb, UCSB Chemistry Department
Your website is FANTASTIC ! You have done a wonderful job on the WERM 2001 web page!
Great work!
Nancy Todd, Regional Meetings Manager for ACS

Academic Image display

It is great page! Well balanced contents and aesthetically pleasing. Very interesting postings of two maps: the Moravian missions map, and the English land claims map . . . Shows that you did a lot of hard work. Where can I buy your map?
Jacek Purat, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley
The Moskitia photos are great -- thanks for posting them on the web. . . Thanks very much.
Jerry Mueller, jmueller@igc.org

Santa Barbara Audubon Society

Bobbie, maybe now's as good a time as any to say that your prompt and efficient web support for field trips, including cheerfully correcting my mistakes, makes my job easier; thanks, Paul,
Paul Keller, Field Trip Chairman, Santa Barbara Audubon Society
Bobbie: Thanks for fixing up the Web page & putting all the Christmas Count stuff on it. That's a lot of work & I think it's great to have it on the Web page for all to see! Fondly, Joan,
Joan E. Lentz, Christmas Bird Count Chairman, Santa Barbara Audubon Society
thank you for taking on our website development. . . . I have visited your site and it looks just great. I dabble with websites a little bit myself,
Gabriele Drozdowski, Wildlife Care Network, Ventura County
"Bobbie, I really like the general layout--much more accessible."
"I like it! . . . Thanks for your assistance."
"The site is really looking good. Thanks for all your work,"
"Kudos to you and all those who've assisted in updating the website for SBAS!"
Darlene Chirman, President, Santa Barbara Audubon Society
Splendid job, you folks! This is a really nice web site. . . . it's a great website! Congratulations!
Dr. Mark Holmgren, UCSB Life Science Department
The photos are really fabulous. I find it especially rewarding to see the author and a description of the locality or subject.

Digital Instruments website:

" . . .thank you for your good work organizing the NanoTheater," from Switzerland
"Bobbie, You have a great site. I love your cinema approach. It's original, creative and well thought out. I am a graphic artist and a web weaver myself. Your site is a refreshing change from all the static sites out there. Good work."
"Your site was one that I came across that would be of great use to teachers. I appreciate the time and effort that you have put into your site. Your site includes many valuable resources for the busy teacher, it is for this reason I am asking your permission to include your site along with many others in an educators resource guide. I hope that. . . allow me to share this site with many other educators in our efforts to improve the educational opportunities for teachers and students."
"I could certainly use some of your expertise with my web site."
". . . your web page is a good place for finding out about the latest developments in AFM."
"We have recently upgraded . . . website was very useful for this, as it allowed me to obtain the Technical data required for these upgrades without calling upon the Technical support staff. . . resources are saved, and the company image also benefits as the user has easy access to additional sources of information," (from Australia)
"BTW Great Homepage," (from Sweden)
"I stumbled on your website by accident...looking for some as-yet-untaken domain names, and was absolutely delighted by it. Great creativity, imagination, technically well put together...a first class job. Congratulations!
"Subject: Your site: Intelligent, interesting, technically helpful...and very FUN...great job . . . I have not had this much fun at a website or a movie theatre in a long time...And thanks again for your excellent work product. The Internet has been hyped so much that most people believe it can cure AIDS...but once in a while, you actually do find a site that provides excellent technical information in an extraordinarily accessible form!" (from a judge)

St. Vincent's Voice, Newsletter:

"Hi! Wow! Thanks for doing a beautiful job with the St. Vincent's newsletter! It looks great and everyone is commenting about it."
Sister Fran Ciulaga, D.C.

HMC Website and Keynotes Newsletter:

". . . put out a Newsletter. The "product" is so attractive, the layout - excellent. We are so lucky to have your expertise."
". . . since you really know what you are doing, use your own good judgement as to the format, . . ."
". . .everyone was pleased with our web page and wanted you to know we appreciated your work on it and on the great newsletter . . ."
"Thank you so much for sending me HMC Keynotes which I thoroughly enjoyed reading and re-reading."
"You have done great things for the HMC and are very much appreciated."

STC Presentation:

"I want to thank you for your informative talk last week and . . ." Steven Brooks, Alias|Wavefront

Contract Employee:

"Bobbie reported directly to me, and I have only positive things to say about her performance. Her writing, word-processing, and graphics skills are first-rate, and the documentation she produced always met or exceeded the requirements of the job, and was completed on time. She needed minimal supervision, grasped new concepts quickly, and was always professional, focused, and diligent in executing her duties. Additionally, she was a pleasure to work with, willing to laugh, when the occasion warranted it, and readily able to adjust to changes in the project schedule as they occurred." Tim Schilz, Technical Publications Manager, Ericsson Inc., Datacom Networks & IP Services, Access Product Unit

Affiliations

I am a senior member of the 25,000 member (international) Society for Technical Communication. I was treasurer of the local chapter for 8 years, webmaster for 3 years, and received the Distinguished Chapter Service Award in February, 1999. I presented talks on the Digital Instruments' website and the use of TABLES in HTML at an international conference, a Region 8 conference, and an STC monthly meeting. The talks were well attended and I received much praise for the website and my presentations.