Sara Kerr

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

Month: December 2010

  • Congrats to Elinor Artful Adornments and St. Kate’s Students: Abbey Lonski and Clare Saunders

    Two of my students, Abbey Lonski and Clare Saunders, were recently featured in the St. Kate’s news for their research work with Elinor Artful Adornments. Click here to read about their research work with Elinor Augé of Elinor Artful Adornments, then come shop at this wonderful store. Colorful, warm and whimsical are adjectives that come to mind…

  • Friday Favorite #1 (via Ad+ition) – Give to Second Harvest Heartland (Food Bank)

    Step up and become a monthly, ongoing, forever kind of donor! Donate here if you are in Minnesota. I have decided that every Friday I am going to dedicate this space to my favorite thing that week. It could be a movie, a television show, an ad, a toy, even a person. The options are…

  • Slideshare.net and Word of Mouth Marketing

    First of all, I love SlideShare.net. When I’m searching for information, I often find something really cool (aka relevant and recent) on this site. It’s a great place to find out what companies are writing about now. In preparation for my Winter section of Promotional Communications, I ran across a slideshow from this great Australian…

  • Best Snow Marketing: The Groveland Tap et al

    Kudos to the Blue Plate Restaurant Group. Via their Facebook page starting last night they advertised the following: IT’S A SNOW DAY!!! Brave the Blizzard special from 11am to 4pm. Today, and at all of our restaurants, tell us you like us on facebook and get 50% off!!! So I skied there for lunch and…

  • Snow and Meandering

    One of my family’s favorite local activities is the annual meander along Grand Avenue in St. Paul — sipping hot cocoa, visiting reindeer and getting a start on holiday shopping. As charming as Chapel Hill, North Carolina was, it just didn’t boast a shopping district as energetic and unique as Grand Avenue in St. Paul.…

  • On my radar this week – December 7, 2010

    Too much, as usual, to write about, so here’s my random list of interesting stuff. The Jayhawks new website — either it’s new or I missed it. Either way it’s incredible. It is perfectly branded with incredible photos from Steven Cohen to set the mood. I’m also impressed with their current PR campaign of Facebook…