Articles on PR for People

Disappearing Artifacts

On a recent stroll in NYC, I walked by an apartment house and could see into a stranger’s window, where I saw records (vinyl LPs) and books.  Since I recognized the books and the recording artists, it gave me a glimpse into this person’s life: age, tastes, and even probable religion.

There was a time when I could get a sense of someone (or a couple, a family or business)...


Raihana Mahan | Beauty from Afghanistan

Growing up in Afghanistan, my mom worked as a teacher and my dad was the Minister of Agriculture. We lived a very happy, normal life. We would go to carnivals ‘til late at night, or to movies with aunts, uncles and cousins. We could visit our relatives anytime we wanted and travel to other parts of the country.  Everything changed dramatically when Russia invaded. A curfew was implemented, and we were not as free as we used to be.

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What is Y’Nevano ?

Wali was working on becoming the best Architect in New England, but his calling to be in show business was strong. One day, he told his mother he had decided to give up being an architect and instead he was going to be a comedian.  Her response was “Y'NEVANO” (You never know). Soon Y’NEVANO became more than his mother’s encouragement to live a life without regrets, Y’NEVANO became a state of mind. If the Y’NEVANO philosophy could profoundly...


Intrepreneur Inside the Box

When you’re saddled with the name of a national forest, you have to do something pretty big to stand out. For Gifford Pinchot III that took the form of creating a brand new word – along with an approach to innovating in corporate America that defines it: “intrapreneurship.”

The American Heritage Dictionary defines an intrapreneur as "A person within a large corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea...


10 Commandments of Intrapreneurship

1. Come to work each day ready to be fired

2.Circumvent any orders aimed at stopping your dream

3. Do any job needed to make your project work, regardless of your job description.

4. Find people to help you.

5. Follow your intuition about the people you choose and work only with the best.

6. Work underground as long as you can --publicity triggers the corporate immune system

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Inae Piercy, Innovator, Educator and Businesswoman

Inae Piercy recounts some of her childhood memories of growing up in Seoul, South Korea, as being pretty boisterous, girls and boys running up and down the street, shouting to girls and boys to come out and play. “We played hide and seek ‘til moms calling for their children to come back home to sleep.”

Inae also remembers that, after a full day of school, there were additional preparatory classes until 11pm to get ready for the...


Wali Collins on being an entrepreneur

Live a Regretless Life

Let today be the first day of your regretless life. If the opportunity is there, go for it. Just start with the small things and build up.

Follow Wali on twitter at @ynevano

Wali Collins has recently republished his best-selling The Y’NEVANO Book of Encouragements. Now available in electronic format on  ...


Sweet Fluff: Dreamy Delights Cupcakery

In the world of hip confections, cupcakes are the new Krispy Kremes. Everyone from Beverley Hills pastry chef Candace Nelson, who lays claim to having started it all to TV’s “Two Broke Girls” have seized on the craze. None more delightfully than sisters Inezia Lisunov and Veronika Gusakov, founders of Seattle’s Dreamy Delights Cupcakery.

Both learned their craft of cooking and baking at a young...


Entrepreneurs in Japan

Hisato Hamada

Founder of VIVA Japan, exporter of Wagyu (Japanese beef)

Mr. Hamada is not your “typical Japanese”. After working for only one year in a large corporation in Japan, he decided start his own business, only at the age of 22. He didn’t do it for the sake of money or status, but to make a change. At that time he realized how the Japanese society views people differently depending on company...


Innovation Dojo: From Japan by way of Iceland

A newly founded student organization focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship in the land of the rising sun.

Innovation Dojo is a student organization founded in Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Japan. It is based on the ideology that everybody can start up their own company, and even initiate social change if they have the right idea, and the passion to bring it to reality.

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