Articles on PR for People

Understanding Crisis Management

As an operational risk consultant, I encounter clients who have no business continuity plans—“that takes too much time and money” and/or “we don’t have anyone on staff who knows how to do that kind of stuff”—and who have opted instead to create plans around disaster response and/or crisis management.  Sometimes such plans are emergency management oriented, with a fat binder full of procedures, and in such situations, what can be done to...


Riding the SURF

 

The word surf has an etymology that connotes many meanings. Both a noun and a verb, surf is the wave that breaks upon the shore as much as it describes an action: the dude who surfs—on the crest of a wave, or by searching for information on the internet and by cruising TV networks. For Seaton Gras, the founder of the SURF Incubator in Seattle, the word Surf expands...


From Tampa Florida - Connecting Through Music

By 1999, I had spent almost two decades as a manufacturer’s representative in the lawn & garden and hardware industry. It taught me many aspects of marketing and design in terms of packaging and promotion. It was then that I was going through a divorce from a 29-year marriage, which was the start of an early on-depression. In the following three years, my mom was diagnosed with colon cancer, my dad attempted suicide over the thought of...


Been caught stealing: tribal spiritual misappropriation

Yet another celebrity is feeling the internet backlash for appropriating a Native American headdress: this time it’s hockey legend Wayne Gretzky’s wife, Janet. Her Instagram photo features her four daughters in headdresses, as reported by Vincent Schilling in India Country Media Today. In recent years,...


Digital Destiny

 

Writers deal with editorial calendars, topics for articles, subjects for thought pieces. We try to plan ahead, storing paragraphs, sentences, resources, interviews; or an idea to follow up on or expand upon, thinking it might add that special something to make an article that much better.

With Destiny as the topic, numerous thoughts came to mind. We had a cat by that name, because it was destiny that she came into...


Destiny –without an e​

I grew up as a working class kid in Yonkers, New York. My parents sent me to Catholic schools, where I learned equal doses of discipline and terror. I spent my third and fourth grade in public school where all of my friends were Jewish. My teacher, Mrs. Chachkes, came from a Jewish merchant family that lived in south Yonkers and sold furniture.  She wore her blonde hair parted on the side in a soft wave that had the tendency to fall forward...


Lynn Berger: Finding the Right Fit for Life and Work

 For more than two decades, Lynn Berger has been helping people find their workplace bliss.

“When I first joined the workforce I was studying business and finance and then I realized I was more interested in what was going on with the people and organization,” she says. So, in graduate school she majored in Organizational Psychology and went to work in Human Resources and Consulting, utilizing the understanding of organizational...


Millennials Mapping the Way for a New American Workforce

Roughly defined as a group of individuals between the ages of 18 and 34, the “Millennial” generation is now projected to surpass Baby Boomers as the largest living generation in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 national population projections.

Disillusioned by dwindling long-term employment options and dismal...


What’s With All the Kindness?

I have seen people actually get mad because they did not get a “thank you” for holding the door for someone.

So what if you didn’t get a thank you! You held that door because you felt like doing something nice. You were not asked to hold the door; you did it from the kindness of your heart. If you voluntarily do a favor you should not be looking for any kind of gratification. Watching someone taking advantage of your favor should...


Is Your Organization Grant-Ready?

There are more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations and more than 350,000 registered congregations in the United States, many of which exist for the purpose of helping those in need. Most of these organizations rely on donors to provide the funding they need to fulfill their missions. Many also look to state, federal or private grants for financial support. Unfortunately, most people are misinformed when it comes to the availability of...