Articles on PR for People

The Siv Sensation

From South Africa Bernadette Erasmus writes about  Sivuyile “Siv” Ngesi whose diverse talents have seen him making waves in the South African entertainment industry.


The Florentine's, a Q&A , Corinne Fisher, and Some Editorial Thoughts About Dressing Respectfully

Jim Florentine’s Son Opens For Him at Book Release Party, Impractical Joker “Q” Does Q&A at Friars Club, Corinne Fisher Shares Her Experience With Bill Burr And Seinfeld, and Some Editorial Thoughts About Dressing Respectfully

“Survival of the Fittest”: Herbert Spencer (and Friends) Got It Wrong

 
The term “survival of the fittest” was coined by the famed 19th century British social theorist Herbert Spencer as a way of characterizing Darwin’s natural selection theory.  Darwin himself soon started using the expression, but it was also embraced by what came to be known as the “Social Darwinists” – various apologists for the free-wheeling, laissez-faire capitalism of that era that featured ruthless economic competition, the brutal exploitation of workers, and extreme inequalities of wealth and poverty.   

Digital Strategy Comes of Age

This month’s column is about use of digital tools in emergency situations and then digital strategy as a leadership tool. In this case as a response, taking advantage of the immediacy and ease of rapid deployment of digital devices, instinctively, by a generation described by some as, “born with a phone in their hands.” How these tools, digital devices and online resources enabled communications, coverage, and the creation of a nationwide movement -in a matter of days-- is a testament to the coming of age of Digital Reality.


Can Our Institutions Meet the Challenge of the Environmental Crisis?

At the very time when our rapidly-growing environmental crisis is becoming an urgent, multi-dimensional threat, many of the world’s governments are corrupt, dysfunctional and/or the captives of retrograde vested interests.  Does this pose an insurmountable obstacle, or are there workarounds and solutions that can be used to deal with this existential challenge?


Digital Strategy and the Maturity of Online Love and Passion

The digital path of how love, passion, dating, even just getting to know each other, follow on a parallel historic line with the advancement, growth and social metamorphosis into a connected, online society.


Dreaming of Fashion?

Dreaming of Fashion?  On Location in Kenmore, Washington: It’s been well over a year now since Fashion Designer and Entrepreneur Monir Zandghoreishi joined her son-in-law Maurice Leary to expand Step-It-Up Camp. 


How to Save Our Small Cities

A recent article in The New York Times on how our expanding “megacities” seem to have less and less need for small cities prompted a thoughtful analysis by the Times’ economics columnist Paul Krugman. 


Nikki Glaser, Yamaneika, Artie Lange and More

Nikki Glaser Gets Ready to Start Morning Radio, Yamaneika on The Chew, Artie Lange Returns to The Stand and More

Thoughts On Making Professional Photographs

I have been doing photography practically all my life. I've studied about exposure, film developing and printing. I've worked with all sorts of photographic equipment from 8x10 view cameras to 35mm point-and-shoot automatic ones