Articles on PR for People

Find Good Talent

Recruiting needs to change to fit the current trends.  More than ever, young people in their twenties and thirties are using social media to hunt for jobs.  They are using YouTube to post video resumes or visumes and these are great tools!  With all the new social media tools that are available to young talent, companies need to step up their program to make sure they are monitoring all of the right social media outlets.

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Anisha Vinjamuri

As chief strategist for InnovationsIQ, Anisha Vinjamuri’s primary mission is building client confidence and trust, as well as making a difference in people’s lives. Her diverse experience, strong organizational leadership and mentoring skills makes her a force in the changing world of HR. Anisha earned two Masters degrees, in Commerce and in Foreign Trade, by the time she was 22. Anisha is another ex-Micosoftee who has found her place in...


Shoe Crazy - Five Faves for Winter

I’ve been working with shoes since I was 20 years old and I know quality and fine detailing. For this winter, I love the latest styles, designs and colors. I feel especially good when I can personally recommend a pair of shoes or boots that I’m wearing and loving them too! It’s one thing to sell someone a pair of shoes and quite another to recommend shoes that looks and feel so good that I actually own a pair myself. Here are my top five...


Wali Collins at Broadway Comedy Club in November

Wali Collins is top headliner at at the Broadway Comedy...

Let Them Eat Plastic

The city of Seattle's ban on plastic bags has been in effect since July 1, 2012, and yet if you walk down any grocery aisle you will encounter the seven basic types of plastic. Every sandwich, vegetable (frozen or fresh), sack of fruit, snack, beverage (pop, water, juice), is...


Trashing McMinnville

We’ve come a long way in the 35 years since a small, local garbage dump called the Riverbend Landfill was allowed to be built near the banks of the South Yamhill River near McMinnville, Ore. Even then people understood that a pit filled with rotting garbage was going to leak out into the ground and water, especially in this semirural area between Portland and Salem, where it rains a reliable seven or eight months a year.

“The...


Jesper Vork | Business Intelligence from Denmark

Danish born Jesper Vork was with Microsoft before becoming a reseller of the Business Intelligence Software from Denmark known as TimeXtender. TimeXtender software is utilized by current users of mainframe computers, such as Fortune 500 companies. “Business Intelligence,” Vork explains, “in my definition, is to help businesses get the information they need and to make the right decisions at the right...


The Girvin Book Collection

The Seattle office of GIRVIN maintains and grows a multi-thousand volume collection of books on design. There is a wide range of reference works that has taken multiple decades to collect.  There are rare books, ranging from signed and numbered limited edition books, to rare books that are centuries old. A hand-illuminated Quran reside beside an ancient cuneiform ceramic cone from ancient Mesopotamia, a first century Greek tutelary epigraph...


Girvin, the Human Brand

Girvin has always been held in awe by many of his colleagues and peers. Years ago, when I was having lunch with the owner of a major ad agency, Girvin’s name came up in conversation.  He said, “Girvin really is who he says he is. He is a different thinker and an extraordinary talent.” 

Despite Girvin’s success, he carries himself with a certain humility. He knows shopkeepers, restaurant owners and waiters by first name and is...


Exemplary Girvin Projects

Girvin | Strategic Branding and Design lives, works and plays across a rich tapestry of creative projects. GIRVIN named and created the Yogurt Culture Company — a wholly new farm to city fresh yogurt restaurant in NYC on Park Avenue, just south of Grand Central Station.  Tim Girvin personally designed the original logo for Kettle Brand — in 1978, a small company that started from the back of a truck and is now a global enterprise...