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Seyla Martayan, Martayan Lan Rare Books:
Dianne Durante worked with us at Martayan Lan Rare Books as a cataloguer of rare books for a year. She is a thorough researcher, and handles with great ease printed sources as well as the Internet. She is an excellent writer, creative and versatile, who can handle a wide variety of challenging subjects. She deals with deadlines very efficiently - always with a smile and a great attitude - and is a pleasure to work with.
Jean Moroney, Thinking Directions:
Dianne's writing is clever and clear, her business manner is professional and friendly, and her work is reliable and thorough. She's a great person to have working for you.
Karen Abbott, author of Sin in the Second City:
I've worked with several researchers, and Dianne Durante was by far the most reliable, professional, savvy, and efficient.
Ivan Schwartz, Founder/ Director, StudioEIS:
Dianne Durante has been an extraordinary “find” for StudioEIS during the past three years. A web-savvy and entrepreneurial spirit married to a whip smart writer/ researcher/ historian. She’s one of the few people that I feel comfortable with when she says, “No, don’t say it like that, say it like this.” She knows her business and her thinking is developmental. She can take an idea and run with it and her personable nature makes this a winning combination as far as I’m concerned.
We do a lot of writing for Web and publication and Dianne has made a huge difference to the final product and has always been willing to work the kind of tight deadlines that give “work” a bad name.
I think she’s great and her work is a reflection on her serious and focused spirit of inquiry.
Quent Cordair, President, Cordair, Inc.:
We recently hired Dr. Dianne Durante to write a series of short articles for our art gallery’s website. We couldn’t have been more pleased with the result. Each article was produced and delivered on time. The series received a very positive response from our clientele and prospective buyers. The articles were informative, entertaining, well researched and professionally composed. Proofing and factual errors were non-existent. Over the years that we’ve work with Dr. Durante, she has proven to be an entirely reliable copywriter, always to be counted on to deliver product of exceptional quality and valuable content.
As the producer of the QCFA Arts Cruise in January of 2008, we had the pleasure of inviting Dr. Durante to provide six hours of Art History and Art Appreciation talks for our cruise attendees. Her presentations were informative, engaging and entertaining. She provided well selected examples of historically important paintings and sculpture which were explored, compared, contrasted and positioned in their proper historical context. The presentation style was easy, warm and personal, with the content provided in terms which were readily relatable and understandable to the engaged layperson. The response to Dr. Durante's lectures, based on the feedback we received during and after the program, was enthusiastic and entirely positive. We would definitely consider inviting her to participate in future such events, as a preferred lecturer.
Penny Kjellberg, Producer, NYCHEA Players:
I worked with Dianne Durante for three years in my capacity as Producer of NYCHEA Players. Dianne designed our programs for many shows during that time and she consistently delivered on time, and always with a smile.
Our assignments for her were particularly difficult to deliver on deadline, since it was her job not only to design and print the materials, but also to gather the ads from the advertisers, the bios from the individual cast members and the notes and other copy from NYCHEA Players production staff. As the cast members were all teenagers, this was especially problematic, but Dianne was always able to get everything in on time, whether she had to use vinegar or honey to do it...
Her writing skills are excellent and her design always beautiful. It was always a challenge fitting way too much copy and art into far too few pages, and Dianne met the challenge every time.
I can wholeheartedly recommend her for any position that involves writing and design, especially when deadlines are tight.
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Her writing is clever and clear, her business manner is professional and friendly, and her work is reliable and thorough. ...
Excellent writer, creative and versatile ... deals with deadlines very efficiently.
Her writing skills are excellent and her design always beautiful. ...
I’ve worked with several researchers, and Dianne was by far the most reliable, professional, savvy, and efficient.
The articles were informative, entertaining, well researched and professionally composed. Proofing and factual errors were non-existent. …
A web-savvy and entrepreneurial spirit married to a whip-smart writer/ researcher/ historian … She can take an idea and run with it ...