There was standing room only at today’s Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum (UVEF) awards event held at Zion’s Bank Canyon Room in downtown Provo. “Boostrapping” start-up Boostability took top honors with a raft of awesome companies nipping at their heels. Of special note this year, the same entrepreneur group posting 2 winners in ...
Partnership with Prolacta Bioscience (PilmerPR client) Ensures a Safe, Standardized, and Steady Supply of Pasteurized Donor Milk to Meet Feeding Needs of Premature Infants throughout BayCare Health System
CLEARWATER, Fla., July 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — BayCare Health System has announced a partnership with Prolacta Bioscience to ensure a safe, standardized, and steady supply of pasteurized donor breast milk to meet the feeding requirements of their hospitalized premature infant population. Under the partnership, Prolacta will manage the breast milk donor qualification ...
Continue Reading → Share4th of July, freedom and flag. What does it mean to you? What does it communicate? Here’s one PR guy’s opinion.
Recently, I went to a funeral for a 92 year young member of the “Greatest Generation,” a veteran of World War II. I touched the flag as it passed, reverently draped over the casket, audience standing in silence. In that hushed moment, emotion welled up from inside, not just for a friend’s passing, but for the millions of ...
Continue Reading → ShareEntrepreneurs in Utah are hot, hot, hot!!!
PROVO, Utah –July 2, 2013 – Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum (UVEF) invites the public (RSVP only—seating is limited) for this year’s “Top 25 Under Five” Awards to be held at 12 noon on July 11 at Zion’s Bank 8th floor conference room at 180 N. University Ave. Carine Clark, CEO of Allegiance, will emcee this year’s event. Top 25 ...
Continue Reading → ShareToday’s Daily Herald article on Roman Wendelboe lays out a compelling story of an immigrant child seizing the American Dream to excel academically with dreams of the NCAA football gridiron. I pitched this story to the Herald after hearing of Roman’s Utah High School Hall of Fame induction a couple of months ago. His story inspires me so.
‘Ziggy’ Ansah made us love him with his path from Africa through
BYU to the NFL. Unassuming, innocent, and driven by ...
Continue Reading → ShareIn recent years, the Internet, social media, and PR tech advances have turned the Public Relations (PR) industry on its head. What once was known as traditional press releases, phone pitching, and persuasive speech are now tweets, instagram, and hashtags harnessing the power of smartphones, iPads, and other tablet PC’s. This rapid evolution might even leave Ivy Lee (“father of PR”) speechless if he could see his industry today. Here are five useful, if not mandatory, PR innovations.
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Continue Reading → ShareFather’s Day was a great “daddy payday” for me. All three of my grown children reached out to me in meaningful ways. I hope to always say I’m an “all in” dad. Of all the public stuff around the holiday, this video warms my heart. In a day when half of all babies are born into single mother environments, I for one say Dad’s still matter. Thanks for showing up Dad!
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— Prolacta Bioscience Applauds Independent Breast Milk Studies Presented at 2013 Pediatric Academics Society Annual Meeting —
INDUSTRY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Prolacta Bioscience, the leader of human breast milk nutrition for premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) applauds the focus of human milk nutrition highlighted at the recent Pediatric Academics Society (PAS) Annual Meeting. The growing number of studies conducted independently point to rising interest of providing an exclusive human milk diet for extremely ...
Continue Reading → ShareThese three things have nothing in common right? Wrong.
Recently the city of Provo in Utah Valley, a place I call home, announced it would make a huge announcement that would change the city entirely by putting us on the map. Great, I thought…another mall or maybe even a commercial airline terminal at our airport (it’s hardly a landing strip). The morning of the big announcement came and I sat waiting for what was to come. The mayor stood with ...
Continue Reading → ShareWhen it comes to terrorism, “ignorance is bliss.” That is the PR in the news from the Associated Press speaking to a Michigan Chamber of Commerce representative regarding where explosive materials are stored in the town of Shelby. As President Obama follows his public relations script, directing that the war on terror must end, homeland terror threats appear very real if you pull back the sheets.
The AP reports that even post 9/11, even post Timothy McVeigh and ...
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