March 20, 2017, Melville, NY – Thomas Public Relations, Inc. http://www.thomas-pr.com, the #1 award-winning consumer electronics and technology PR agency, announced today that Karen Thomas, President & CEO, Thomas Public Relations, has been awarded the PR News “Movers & Shakers Award 2017” for top industry thought leadership in the use of social media. Ms. Thomas was recognized for the social media campaigns for Thomas PR’s technology brands and clients that shake up the social media scene, navigating the ins and out of live streaming, SEO, storytelling, social selling, Snapchat, Instagram, and more.
The Movers and Shakers Award 2017 will be presented at The Social Shake-Up Show, held May 22-24, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. Winners were judged on the measurable positive effects their social media leadership had for their brands and clients, and how they have demonstrated that they are industry leaders in the use of social media.
“I’m honored to be awarded as a mover and shaker with social media savvy campaigns and strategies for the tech industry,” said Karen Thomas, President & CEO, Thomas Public Relations, Inc. “Thomas PR prides itself in outside-the-box campaigns that bring time-honored results for our clients.” Ms. Thomas and Thomas PR are the winners of numerous industry awards for the agency’s social media and public relations acumen, including Long Island Business News “Excellence in Communication Award 2017” for Best PR Campaign, Onalytica’s “Top 100 Influencers and Brands,” PRSourceCode’s Top Tech Communicators Award, and TheBitbag.com’s PR Rep of the Year. The creator of the original and longest running Party List guides for networking at technology trade shows, “The Official KarenNet Party List,” Ms. Thomas is also a judge for the Edison Awards 2017.
About Thomas PR
Thomas PR(R) has an over 15 year history of successful PR campaigns for ground-breaking technology companies, such as Olympus, BeBop Sensors, NewerTech, OWC, GameSir, Kidz Gear, The Great Kat, and many more. Thomas PR has extensive relationships with national and international press, including The Today Show, CNN, Good Morning America, Fox-TV, Wired, BBC-TV, Stern, Vancouver Sun, and more. For more info, see the website: http://www.thomas-pr.com, Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thomaspr, Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KarenThomaspr, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thomaspublicrelations .
About Movers & Shakers Award
Sponsored by PR News and Social Media Today, The Movers & Shakers Award will be presented at The Social Shake-up, the premier social media conference redefining what social media means for businesses and brands. The Social Shake-Up will be held May 22-24, 2017 at The W Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, see: http://www.socialshakeupshow.com/.
DENVER—The Center for Western Priorities released a new analysis of the National Park Service’s maintenance backlog, revealing hundreds of millions of dollars in deferred maintenance that should be the responsibility of private hotel owners and concessionaires, not taxpayers. That backlog of private maintenance costs could become a corporate windfall if President Trump’s budget proposal becomes law.
Investing in our national parks is critical, but the president’s budget blueprint uses an inflated and misleading maintenance backlog figure as an excuse to defund the rest of our public lands. The NPS maintenance backlog, which, while adding up to nearly $12 billion on paper, actually contains around $1.3 billion in priority park maintenance projects, according to a recent investigation by the Center for American Progress.
“The ‘skinny budget’ is a double giveaway,” said Aaron Weiss, media director at the Center for Western Priorities. “If President Trump gets anything close to his budget wishes, he will clear the way for trophy homes inside our national parks, while sending money instead to private hotel owners who ought to be paying for their own deferred maintenance projects.”
Trump’s budget proposal calls for slashing funds for land acquisition programs like the Land and Water Conservation Fund by $120 million. LWCF, which is widely known as America’s most important parks program, is the only way for owners of “inholdings” within our national parks to sell their land to the American people, making our parks and public lands whole.
CWP’s analysis of the maintenance backlog found nearly 5,000 line items for deferred private maintenance across 72 national park system units, adding up to $389 million in deferred maintenance that is, according to park concessionaire contracts, supposed to be performed by the concessionaire.
At Yosemite alone, the main building of the Majestic Yosemite Hotel (formerly the Ahwahnee Hotel) has $31 million in critical maintenance needs — more than half of the critical backlog at the entire park.
The top 10 parks with deferred private maintenance include:
Park
Private maintenance projects
Total deferred private maintenance
Yosemite National Park
476
$74,780,252
Yellowstone National Park
904
$68,085,479
Grand Teton National Park
528
$25,808,056
Gateway National Recreation Area
129
$24,457,177
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
177
$22,528,634
Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
19
$19,599,350
Glacier National Park
182
$18,652,996
Mount Rainier National Park
8
$14,174,000
Oregon Caves National Monument
2
$12,721,847
An embeddable map of all 72 park units with deferred private maintenance is available online. Summary data is also available for download. Full data from CWP’s analysis of the park service maintenance backlog is available to reporters on request.
For more information, visit westernpriorities.org. To speak with an expert on public lands, contact Aaron Weiss at 720-279-0019 or aaron@westernpriorities.org.
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The Center for Western Priorities is a conservation policy and advocacy organization focused on land and energy issues across the American West
