Articles on PR for People

The Alchemy of Design Thinking

Tim Girvin is well known for being an award-winning American designer, but his talent takes many shapes and forms. Calligrapher, illustrator, writer, public speaker and photographer, these professional titles do little to capture the essence of a man who has become legendary.  Oft-considered to be a designer’s designer, other designers revere him to the extent that some imitate him—...


Swiss Immigrants Bake Their Way to the American Dream

Thomas and Helene Stohr came to North America from Switzerland a decade and a half ago. They first lived in Canada with their two sons, then moved to New England. Their Swiss bakery in Massachusetts serves authentic, all-natural Swiss foods, just like those families in Switzerland enjoy.

The Stohrs began their bakery as a home-based business in 2006. They baked all day and Thomas delivered the ultra-fresh foods in the evenings....


Hidden Warriors Project

Hidden Warriors Project: Helping Women with Cancer Find Their Inner Strength

“Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and...


Lael Echo-Hawk at PechaKucha Nov 2, Seattle

Lael Echo-Hawk Tribal Attorney, Garvey Schubert Barer in Seattle, will give a presentation at PechaKucha on Monday, Nov 2nd at Seattle University in Seattle, WA.

PechaKucha Nights are gatherings where creative people get together and share their ideas, works and thoughts.

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Litographs

A true business success story, brothers Danny and Corey Fein’s Litographs (www.litographs.com) is a great example of how Kickstarter, a website where anyone can create a proposed project and ask for public funding, are making dreams into reality. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fein’s original idea was simple: designing prints of famous literature by using the...


American Brand in Living Color

Alexander Shor DMD MSD Alexander Shor remembers not having a lot of stuff when he was growing up in Latvia.  His world was monochromatic. Most of his books were in black and white. Having books with color photos was a great luxury.  His favorite book was a cook book collection of eastern European, Russian and Latvian recipes.  He loved the recipes for shish kebobs, borsht, and Chicken Kiev, but it was the stylized color...


Spotlight on Brent Brookler and Flowboard.com

Brent Brookler, CEO/Founder of Flowboard is the quintessential entrepreneur in all things mobile. Product-driven and technology focused, Brent is passionate about startup culture and has been in the mobile space for over a decade. In 2000, he started Mobliss, a mobile game developer that powered the American Idol text voting program, and built early mobile games of Family Feud, NY Times Crossword and many others. Mobliss was sold to Index...


Norma Jean Gaynor Entrepreneur at 83

Norma Jean Gaynor: First Professional Inn Sitter

Norma Jean Gaynor, almost 83, is often called Marilyn by her elderly friends to playfully make the association with movie star Marilyn Monroe whose real name was Norma Jean Baker.  Our Norma Jean worked for the phone company for 27 years and retired with a pension.

“I loved retirement,” Norma Jean said. “Retirement allowed me the spontaneity to seize...


Pitch Well, Win Big

Every business needs Terry Ward! He has over 30 years of experience in communication skills training, and is the founder and president of a national communication and presentation skill straining organization. The Comm Skills Group offers a fun, vital and creative training process for business professionals to develop a powerful “State of Mind” so they can master their own natural strengths as communicators.  Clients include: Disney, Mattel...


The Entrepreneurial Mindset

The “Entrepreneurial Mindset” is a book title, the subject of a few websites and management courses, and a topic that has spawned an uncountable number of talks. To say the least, the “Entrepreneurial Mindset” has established its place in the modern vernacular.

Look up “Entrepreneurial Mindset” in Wikipedia and it redirects to “Entrepreneurship.”  The keys to entrepreneurship,...