Sara Kerr

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Lover of Snow, Winter Vacations, Good Beer & Great Music, Minnesota Weather, French Wine & Sidewalks. Yogi for life.

Month: November 2010

  • The Music was Great — but who were the bands?

    Last night, I went to First Avenue for the Tribute to the Replacements show celebrating the 25th anniversary of Tim. The ‘mats, disbanded in 1991. I saw them a few times growing up and collected all their LPs like most avid Twin City fans. Last night’s show (an annual event) was a lot like the…

  • Blogging Tip – Adding links that open in a new window / tab

    When I blog, I always include links to things I like. When I read blogs, I almost always click on the embedded links. My pet peeve are links that don’t open to a new page, but instead open in the current page. In WordPress, my blogging, tool, this is pretty easy to do. Here’s a…

  • Thank you City Pages — Why we all Love Minneapolis / St Paul

    50 Reasons to love Minneapolis/St. Paul – The perfect list of why I live here and love it. I’m going to simply reprint the list here because it makes me laugh. I need to laugh. Thanksgiving was freezing. I have to relearn what 9 degrees means when going outside after 4 years down south. Check…

  • St. Kate’s Marketing Students Reach out to Potential Students

    Today’s INDI 2090 Promotional Communications class discussed how we could reach our “buyers” with news of our social media plan. Again, this was a hypothetical discussion using our university as the tool to facilitate my students’ mastery of one of their text books, The New Rules of Marketing and PR. From a teaching and learning perspective,…

  • future topics

    Taking a cue from one of my students, Miss Angeleen, I’m just going to make a list of what I’d like to be writing about… MNSCU’s efforts to reach out to under represented students via a F & F campaign and a new website:  Yes You Can from Franke+Fiorella, you can read more about the…

  • Photos, Photos, Photos! St. Kate’s is on Flickr

    An update to my post from yesterday. St. Catherine University is on Flickr.com, we just couldn’t find it last night. Here is the link to see some Katies in Action. One of my favorite sets of photos is here,– when St. Catherine University President Andrea J. Lee, IHM, sent the opening convocation to the Minnesota…

  • What if my Students Marketed St. Kate’s…

    Today I challenged my INDI 2090 Promotional Communications students to apply the principles of their textbook, The New Rules of Marketing and PR to our school, St. Catherine University. We began with the Mission of the University because all marketing must support an organization’s goal. We chose a section of the Catholic Identity: From its…

  • Sidewalk Poetry in St. Paul…Another Reason to Love my City

    Everyday I walk through my city. I talk to my neighbors, I visit local businesses, I play at parks, and get some exercise. These are things I could do anywhere (ideally with sidewalks…). My ramblings are unique because I read poetry along the way–under my feet, no less. The city of St. Paul, MN in…

  • Yelp! If you are Small Business Using Interactive/Social Media

    My new favorite restaurant is a tiny deli tucked into the corner of an old apartment complex. Acme Deli has maybe 4 tables and a 1000 different sandwich combinations. The food is great. I stopped in recently because everyone I knew was talking about it. Everyone. Even the kids at the bus stop. So I…

  • The Internet as a Teaching Tool…Why I use Mashable.com

    This week, I assigned my Promotional Communications students about 25 URLs to read or watch. I did this because I couldn’t find a textbook in June that adequately presented interactive media let alone grasped its importance. As a teacher, it’s a lot harder to teach from a series of articles than to follow a publisher’s…