Los Angeles Macintosh Group names Silicon Valley P.R. as its press relations agency; History of Mac community involvement on both sides makes partnership "a perfect match".LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 1998--Silicon Valley P.R., a San Francisco-based 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, today announced that it would offer services to the Los Angeles Macintosh Group. LAMG President Tom Negrino called the new affiliation "a perfect match." "I've known (Silicon Valley P.R. founder and Principal) Tom Geller from his long association with the Macintosh community," he said. "In fact, we were both working for Mac industry publications when we met, him editing reviews for MacWEEK and me writing for Macworld. So when I heard he was opening a P.R. agency, I asked him to help us publicize pub·li·cize tr.v. pub·li·cized, pub·li·ciz·ing, pub·li·ciz·es To give publicity to. publicize or -cise Verb [-cizing, -cized] the LAMG, and I've been very pleased with the results." For SVPR, offering services to the Los Angeles Macintosh Group made sense. "While I use a variety of OSes -- Linux and BeOS among them -- a lot of my experience is with the Mac," said Geller. "And if you use a Mac, you come to value the Macintosh community. The LAMG, with its broad membership and exciting programs like its annual MacFair LA, is a valuable resource for our community." About Silicon Valley P.R.: SVPR (http://www.svpr.com) is a press, partner and public relations firm in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden that specializes in servicing feisty li'l software companies. Inquiries are welcome at info@svpr.com. About the Los Angeles Macintosh Group: LAMG (http://www.lamg.com) is a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. dedicated to helping microcomputer microcomputer Small digital computers whose CPU is contained on a single integrated semiconductor chip. As large-scale and then very large-scale integration (VLSI) have progressively increased the number of transistors that can be placed on one chip, the processing capacity users use their computers as productively and pleasurably pleas·ur·a·ble adj. Agreeable; gratifying. pleas  ur·a·bil as possible. Celebrating its 14th anniversary in 1998, LAMG has grown to be one of the largest computer user groups world-wide with over 5,000 members. -0- Note to editors: (c) Silicon Valley P.R., All Rights Reserved. Photos of Mr. Geller and Mr. Negrino are available from Silicon Valley P.R., at 415/552-4356, info@svpr.com. CONTACT: Silicon Valley P.R. (SVPR) Tom Geller, Principal, 415/552-4356 tom@svpr.com or Los Angeles Macintosh Group (LAMG) Tom Negrino, President, 310/319-1821 tom@negrino.com |
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