CyberAlert Awards Annual PR Grants to 29 Non-Profit Organizations.STRATFORD, Conn. -- CyberAlert, Inc., a worldwide media monitoring, press clipping (1) Cutting off the outer edges or boundaries of a word, signal or image. In rendering an image, clipping removes any objects or portions thereof that are not visible on screen. See scissoring. See also WCA. and TV news monitoring News monitoring, or the news monitoring industry, provides government agencies, corporations, public relations professionals, and other organizations access to news information created by the media. service, today announced the 29 recipients of its 2008 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 (PR) Grants to Not-for-Profit Organizations. The 29 grants to organizations in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada, United Kingdom and Switzerland are the largest number the company has awarded in one year. Each grant is for one free year of online news monitoring service using CyberAlert 4.0. The total retail value of this year's grants exceeds $75,000. Since starting the PR Grants program in 2004, CyberAlert has awarded a total of 102 grants with a retail value of more than $250,000. The 2008 award recipients are located in nine different states (MA, NY, MD, VA, NC, FL, IL, WI, CA), the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , two Canadian provinces (Quebec, Ontario), and two countries in Europe (Switzerland, United Kingdom). [TABLE OMITTED] In announcing the award recipients, William J. Comcowich, 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 CyberAlert stated: "As I personally reviewed the grant applications, I was inspired by the amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. work being done by not-for-profit organizations and their volunteers. We're pleased that CyberAlert can effectively help worthy not-for-profit organizations and give back to the PR community that has helped us become a leading worldwide media monitoring company. It's our intention to continue the PR grants program for many years to come." Over 300 not-for-profit organizations applied to CyberAlert for the PR Grants. "The grant applications reflect the recognition among non-profit organizations of the value and benefits of utilizing media monitoring services A media monitoring service provides clients with documentation, analysis, or copies of media content of interest to the clients. Services tend to specialize by media type or content type. and we're delighted to be able to increase the number of grants awarded this year," stated William J. Comcowich, president and CEO of CyberAlert. The CyberAlert selection process favored national and international organizations with innovative services that benefit the young, the disadvantaged, the ill and disabled, the environment, and better government. It also favored organizations with plans to utilize the monitoring service The general surveillance of known air traffic movements by reference to a radar scope presentation or other means, for the purpose of passing advisory information concerning conflicting traffic or providing navigational assistance. and resulting news clips in innovative ways. A list of previous PR Grant Recipients is available on the CyberAlert Website. Grant applications are accepted throughout the year and reviewed at the end of the year. About CyberAlert: Founded in 1999, CyberAlert (http://www.cyberalert.com/) is a worldwide press clipping, media monitoring, broadcast monitoring and media measurement service. Its CyberAlert[R] 4.0 worldwide news monitoring service monitors over 25,000 online news sources each day in 25+ languages. The company's TV broadcast news monitoring service monitors the closed caption text of over 2,100 news programs on over 600 TV stations in the Top 100 markets in the United States. To monitor consumer discussion (online word-of-mouth), its NetPinions[TM] service monitors over 100,000 Web message boards and UseNet news Usenet news - Usenet groups for consumer insight about companies, products, key issues and trends and its BlogSquirrel[TM] blog monitoring service monitors over 5 million blog postings each day from a total of 25+ million blogs worldwide. CyberAlert EdCals is an editorial calendars service covering over 3,000 publications with over 300,000 editorial opportunities. Additional information about CyberAlert services is available at http://www.cyberalert.com. |
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