Connors Communications Adds Clients Across All Practice Areas.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2003 XOsoft, Picasa, Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies and Homestead Studio Suites Hotels Originally called Homestead Village, it was started in 1992 by Security Capital in Santa Fe, New Mexico with its first properties located in Dallas and Houston. In 2001, Homestead was purchased by the Blackstone Group. Join Connors' Expanding Client Roster Connors Communications, a strategic public relations Strategic Public Relations (PR) involves creative planning, media research and strategic approach in designing a PR campaign. Unlike the present, PR programs used to be very media relations-centric and based on personal relationships with journalists and columnists. and marketing firm specializing in emerging and innovative technologies, announced today that it has been selected by four companies to represent them for PR services. New clients include XOsoft and Picasa as agency of record, the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies for a traditional and online marketing project to launch a new initiative and Homestead Studio Suites Hotels for online marketing. These organizations span all of Connors' core practice areas: business-to-business, consumer technology, education technology and online marketing, highlighting the diversity, yet focus, of Connors' offering. XOsoft is the first provider of business continuity software solutions that enable instantaneous recovery from any type of disaster, including common data corruptions. The company's patent-pending Rewind technology, embedded in all XOsoft products, is the only business continuity software solution that allows enterprises to quickly and easily "undo" application and database corruptions by rewinding affected data resources to their latest consistent state before corruptions took place. XOsoft's U.S. headquarters are in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , with offices in Boston, Cupertino and Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest . "XOsoft is partnering with Connors because of their emphasis on strategically positioning companies for the right kind of exposure in the market," said Gil Rapaport, Vice President of Marketing, XOsoft. "Their strong media and analyst relationships, combined with commitment to the real sales goal successes of their clients, were important values we looked for when choosing a public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most agency." Headquartered in Pasadena, California Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 133,936 and the 160th largest city in the United States. The California Finance Department estimates the Pasadena population to be 146,166 in 2005. , Picasa's mission is to bring fresh, compelling digital imaging products to mainstream consumers. The company specializes in conceiving, developing, and marketing products that are perfectly aligned with consumer lifestyle needs, and are effortless to use. The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies (SCEMS SCEMS Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies SCEMS Southern California Early Music Society (Palisades, California) ) is the central education department of the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution, research and education center, at Washington, D.C.; founded 1846 under terms of the will of James Smithson of London, who in 1829 bequeathed his fortune to the United States to create an establishment for the "increase and diffusion of . SCEMS fulfills the educational mission of the Smithsonian by producing high-quality learning experiences that are research-based, relevant to audience needs, and that produce measurable results. BRE/Homestead Village L.L.C., based in Atlanta, is an owner and operator of 132 extended-stay hotels in 33 states under the Homestead Studio Suites Hotels brand. Designed with an extended stay in mind, each studio suite features a fully equipped kitchen, work area with computer dataport, free local calls and voicemail that can be personalized. Homestead Studio Suites Hotels provides a quality lodging experience at flexible, reasonable rates based on guests' length of stay. "Today's announcement is indicative of the strength of unique offering of both traditional public relations and our holistic approach holistic approach A term used in alternative health for a philosophical approach to health care, in which the entire Pt is evaluated and treated. See Alternative medicine, Holistic medicine. to online marketing," said Connie Connors, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Connors Communications. "We've never wavered from our focus in emerging and innovative technologies and the real use of the Internet as a PR medium, and that is one of the reasons we continue to succeed. It is especially rewarding to work with companies across the breadth of our core offering, and as a team, Connors has never been so strong and so committed to the quality of our services and most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , the successful results for our clients." The new clients join Connors Communications roster of clients that includes companies such as Cablevision, Evolution Robotics, National Geographic, Rainbow Media's Mag Rack and Vonage. About Connors Communications Founded in 1985 to serve the then-budding consumer technology industry, New York-based Connors Communications has long been a pioneer of new technology markets -- from hand-held consumer electronics and home computer software in the mid-1980's, to CD-ROM drives CD-ROM drives, which today typically means a CD-RW drive that is a combo CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW drive, come in a variety of speeds. The original drive (1x) transferred data at 150KB per second. , the first networking applications, online services and Internet appliances in the 1990's. Also in the mid-1990's, Connors became one of the first PR agencies to develop a suite of services tailored to online PR and marketing. Today, Connors' experience in introducing market "firsts" is being tapped to educate the market about new infrastructure businesses and business models, convergence products and emerging industries. For more information please visit http://www.connors.com. |
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