PR for People® Book Reviews May 2016

By Barbara Lloyd McMichael

​Digital Humanitarians – Patrick Meier

The word “do-gooders” originated back in the 1920s as a pejorative that conservatives used against progressives. Now there’s a 21st century deprecation that began in much the same way: take the term crowdsourcing (a word coined in 2006), sprinkle with a bit of Harry Potter magic dust, and presto! – it transforms into “...


Skate for Change: The Enthusiastic, Unorganized Charity of Nebraska Millennials

The perceived high work ethic and associated integrity of Nebraskans has been showing up in interesting ways for the state’s millennials (people reaching young adulthood around the year 2000). Although young Nebraskans participate in charities of all kinds, some are noticing a trend in “unofficial” charity taking place.

One example is the Skate for Change movement, which began in western Nebraska with one skater and has expanded...


How To Use Your DSLR On Automatic!

Ok. So, I've been saying how we all should use our DSLRs on MANUAL in order to have more complete control of exposures, saturation, shutter speeds and apertures. Yet, most people just leave their cameras on AUTO because they think the camera will always make a "correct" shot. So, why do manufacturers put a so many other settings on their cameras? Well, believe it or not, there are actually times when AUTO settings might come in handy....


Wali Collins at Broadway Comedy Club - June 8th

Wali Collins is one of the top headliners at the Broadway Comedy Club on June 8. The top headliners include: Karen Bergreen, Mike Vecchione, Costaki Economopoulos, Wali Collins, Carmen Lynch. The show starts at 9. More info from Broadway Comedy Club.


Faces of Combat / Pine Winds Connections

By Tom Blaschko

Our Faces of Combat program is a big part of Pine Winds Connections these days. In it we help those who are serving and who have served in the United States military.

Many Americans have trouble imagining the devastation caused by PTSD in the men and women returning from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. But it is all too real for those who served and for their families. In Erik Newhouse’s...


From Boston: Michaela Kinlock turned her passion into a promising career by helping others stay in college and graduate on solid footing.

By Alison Harris

Michaela Kinlock, Ed.M., is an academic advisor at Northeastern University, a career she was drawn to: “I transferred colleges after my freshman year and it showed me that fit is so important in making or breaking a college student’s experience,” she said.

Kinlock learned firsthand about the...


Blackberry Pie

Every summer while I’m on the Oregon coast, I make blackberry pie.  The concept of pie is larger than a summer pie and means whole or wholeness that is divisible into shares. If you apply the concept of pie to the media, it is apparent that only a few people like Donald Trump and Kimye who get the whole pie.

It takes lots of dollars to catapult yourself to a height that commands whole media attention—from Twitter to the...


Red Kool Aid Blue Kool Aid: What Really Happened To The Promise Of Obamacare

The Affordable Care Act will go down in history as an important piece of Barack Obama's legacy. Leonard Zwelling worked through the implementation of that landmark law as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy fellow. His “dizzying” memoir, Red Kool Aid Blue Kool Aid:  How Partisan Politics and Greed Undermined ObamaCare (Franklin Scribes Publishers) sheds light on little-known details of perhaps one of the most...