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Recalculating: 97+ Experts on Driving Small Business Growth

Barbara McMichael

October 04, 2016

PR for People® Reviews: BOOKS: By Barbara Lloyd McMichael

SPECIAL REVIEW!

Recalculating: 97+ Experts on Driving Small Business Growth – curated by Joann M. Laing

Information Strategies Inc. – 336 pp - $

A business plan is considered a basic building block of any company, but in today’s fast-changing business climate, it’s essential to be nimble, too. With that in mind, the...

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Politics

Weed is not Green Energy

PR for People Team

October 02, 2016

From Seattle

Weed is not Green Energy

Using marijuana for fun and relaxation or to aid healing for a medical condition is an issue as private as the decision to drink alcohol. It’s nobody’s business but your own. Marijuana use only gets fraught with complication when someone under the influence drives a car, operates heavy machinery or engages in every day activity that requires good...

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Food

A Great Place to “Chill”

Matt Robinson

September 30, 2016

FOOD

A Great Place to “Chill”

Boston-area ice cream store always has the neighborhood scoop

By Matt Robinson

When it comes to ice cream, MA is one of the top states in the union. Bay Staters eat more of the cool treat than nearly any other citizens. To make it in MA, therefore, takes something extra special!

In addition to...

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Books

Finding destiny in the details

Barbara McMichael

September 30, 2016

PR for People® Reviews:

Finding destiny in the details

Callings – Dave Isay

Penguin Press – 272 pp - $26

Bookstores have shelves full of motivational books that promise wealth creation, happier lives, and sculpted bodies.

The truth is, most of these books do contain helpful kernels of wisdom, but it’s hard to ignore the feeling that many...

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Spirituality

Dust Collectors

Cindy Weinstein

September 29, 2016

From Medford, New Jersey

Dust Collectors

Last evening, I observed my faint breath draw upon dimming candle light. I reclined heavily, feeling my heart’s familiar whisper. The morning window donned its dark veil, and momentarily the specious illusion of blindness set in. I lay quietly, open-eyed, discovering comfort within my discomfort, allowing opaqueness to willingly lead...

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Celebrity

Legacy

Wali Collins

September 24, 2016

What is your legacy? What is that thing or things that will carry on your spirit and of your beliefs after you leave this planet? What is that something you have put your heart and soul into? It could be your children or your score at the video arcade or a recipe of your own design.

It is such a waste of anyone’s life to just exist. You are here for a reason. Show how your life was worth something.

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Tech & Science

Digital Destiny

Dean Landsman

September 21, 2016

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...

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Media

Booty Pop

Patricia Vaccarino

September 18, 2016

Second in a series of articles educating the public about the media.

Today’s media outlets are under tremendous pressure to get eyeballs. They are desperate to make money. Slashing the size of newsrooms and publishing canned content is only part of the story. The Media will do anything to get attention. They will even shake their booty.

Briefly consider...

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Fashion

Olga on the Go

PR for People Team

September 15, 2016

From Belarus to Bellevue

Olga Szwed notes how many Americans often think of Belarus as being Russian, but the republic is actually located in Eastern Europe and landlocked by countries that once happened happened to be part of the Soviet Union—Russia to the northeast and the Ukraine to the south. Regardless of...

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Media

Feeding the Beast

Patricia Vaccarino

September 14, 2016

First in a series of articles educating the public about the media.

Imagine a world without newspapers. Every day another media outlet cuts their print counterpart to go strictly digital. And every media outlet reports a steady decline in revenue. Yet it’s hard to imagine a world without newspapers. There would be fewer materials to stuff broken windows and insulate walls....