Media Mentions

Special Report: Smartphone Technology
How Smartphone Technology is affecting the death care industry

By Tanya Kenevich, Editor
American Funeral Director
October 2011 Edition

Mayra Ruiz quoted in this print publication regarding the value of smartphone technology and its many benefits to funeral operations.

Many Jobs Involve Social Media Use as Part of Everyday Process

By Vanessa Junkin, Times Correspondent
Carroll County Times
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Mayra Ruiz serves as a source providing insight and expertise pertaining to the importance of the social media skill set for the jobs of today.

It’s a Tweet-Up:
Local Twitter Aficionados Gather
Women discuss positive business aspects of the wildly popular social web site.

By Naomi Smoot, Martinsburg Journal staff writer
May 27, 2009

It’s a Tweet-Up: Local Twitter Aficionados Gather in Charles Town, West Virginia. Mayra Ruiz-McPherson and Suzi Crowder discuss positive business aspects of the wildly popular social web site.

Mayra Ruiz-McPherson looked around the Wi-Fi cafe at Martin's grocery store, and then cautiously approached the table. She was in search of suzihomemaker, a businesswoman with whom Ruiz-McPherson, a.k.a. marketingmisfit, had been exchanging tweets.

Moms Are Networking
Under new leadership, the Loudoun Moms Network has a new technological format and membership has doubled in size.

By Anne Hess, The Connection
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Mayra Ruiz-McPherson, newcoming editor for the Loudoun Moms Network, understands technology trends and revamped the format of the Loudoun Moms Network free bimonthly newsletter.

Business Entrepreneur
29 Queen Antiques offers new twist on old decor

By S’iva Goodman, The Stuart Hometown News
December 2006

Entrepreneurial profile of Mayra Ruiz-McPherson as proprietor and store-owner of retail antiques shop in Palm City, Florida.

Easing the Way for Immigrants
For 25 Years, Council Has Focused on Literacy

By Meghan Collins Sullivan
Special to The Washington Post
Thursday, February 17, 2005; Page LZ01

Mayra Ruiz was interviewed by The Washington Post back when she was Executive Director of the Loudoun Literacy Council in Leesburg, Virginia.

Literacy Director Readies for Challenge

By Adrienne Cox
Loudoun Magazine, 2005, Page 16

Mayra Ruiz was profiled by Loudoun Magazine when she was hired as Executive Director of the Loudoun Literacy Council in Leesburg, Virginia.

Washington Business Tonignt
NewsChannel 8

August 2009 — Rebecca Cooper, the National Correspondent for ABC7/WJLA-TV and substitute anchor for NewsChannel 8’s Newstalk, discovered Ruiz-McPherson while reading her guest post on Network Solutions’ GrowSmartBusiness.com blog. “I saw Mayra’s posted article about what we all can learn from the local apple pie baker and liked it,” says Cooper. “Our interview with Mayra will be based on her article and that baker!