WHO PLACES LISTINGS IN UNCAT? Businesses, nonprofit groups, trade associations, government agencies, museums, and self-published authors with research reports, pamphlets, brochures, catalogs, newsletters, booklets, books, videocassettes, and audio cassttes.
WHY LIST IN UNCAT? Because UNCAT is available to newspaper, magazine, radio and television reporters and editors around the world, you can easily boost your PR effort with minimal time or money invested. Because UNCAT is available to anyone with Internet access, you can easily bring information about your research, products or services directly to millions of people.
WHO DESIGNED UNCAT? Michael R. Prolman, president of Sapphire Press.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? We greatly value what you think about UNCAT. Your comments, suggestions, criticisms and praise are welcome and will be carefully read. You have the power to help UNCAT evolve. Send e-mail to UNCAT@sapphire.com.
ABOUT MICHAEL R. PROLMAN
Michael Prolman began his career as a technical writer in 1979 at Data General. In 1981, he founded a newspaper called "Bridges," a Boston-area publication featuring personal ads. Between 1984 and 1986, he was a technical instructor for Wang Laboratories, teaching analysts how to design and build relational databases. Michael co-founded the Lowell Technology Group, Inc., a database consulting company, in 1986. The most famous database he designed and built during his LTG years was the Weapons Importation Tracking System for the entire United States, contracted by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. It tracks all weapons legally imported through all U.S. Customs offices. (For the socially responsible: this database tracks the weapons, not advocates them.) He co-designed the first software package to support distributed/replicated databases on a Wang VS minicomputer. He also designed, built and marketed possibily the world's first image-enabled, groupware product which acted as a repository of corporate wisdom.
He founded Sapphire Press in 1991 to self-publish "Finding Romance Through The Personals: The Complete Guide to Personal Ads." The idea and design of UNCAT grew partially out of his frustrations with self-publishing. In 1992, Sapphire Press published "Hawking God: A Young Jewish Woman's Ordeal in Jews for Jesus," a book exposing an internationally-known, cult-like group (author: Ellen Kamentsky). This project created more frustrations with paper-based publications marketed and distributed through traditional means (book stores, distributors and reviewers)--and more ideas. In 1994, Mr. Prolman launched UNCAT.
Michael Prolman graduated from Boston University in 1979 with a B.A. in philosophy (Summa Cum Laude). At other points in his life he has been: a National Science Foundation fellow, an accomplished violinist, a New England ballroom dance champion and a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant recipient.