Posted in Blogs, MKTG 2350: Integrated Marketing Communications, St. Catherine University on July 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I like to fee like I have my own little space in something as HUGE as the internet. It makes me feel special, like I have a voice.
Post #8: The Social Media RUMBLE..
Click the link above to hear more from one of my super smart students! She’s found some great social media videos / infographics.
Posted in Blogs, Cool things in Minneapolis, Minneapolis / St. Paul Marketing, Writing, tagged http://www.midtownglobalmarket.org/, Midtown Global Marke, Minnesota Blogger Conference 2012 on July 30, 2012 | 5 Comments »
If you’re reading this, then you know something about blogs.
Would you like to know more?
Then attend the Minnesota Blogger Conference on September 22nd — it’s free, but tickets go fast! Click here on August 22nd to catch one of the first wave of tickets.
Why attend?
The conference features speakers who write, photograph, and record and then publish to their blogs on an amazing array of subjects. Curious? Here’s the link to last year’s speakers.
Learn more about blogging.
Meeting really interesting people.
Catch some shopping at the Midtown Global Market.
What if I a
lready know a lot about blogging?
Then sign up to speak! Download the application and submit by August 6, 2012. If you have specific questions, let me know — I’m the speaker manager!
What are we looking for?
As a conference dedicated to bloggers, we ask that all session topics have a direct connection to blogging (as opposed to social media as a whole).
Topics that will grab our attention will be a hot topic and of interest to a wide variety of bloggers (think of all the niches of bloggers we serve: tech, corporate, money-saving, food, parenting, sports, etc.)
Speakers that will grab our attention will have direct experience blogging and expertise in the topic area.
Details
Date: Saturday, September 22
Location: Allina Health headquarters in Minneapolis
Freebies: Parking, Lunch, and a great time
Learn more: Twitter and the Minnesota Blogger Conference Website
Posted in Word of Mouth, tagged Beauty Ethics, Common Good Books, hairy legs, hunger, katniss, The Hunger Games on July 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As dark and disturbing as The Hunger Games books are, they provide some fantastic discussion topics. One of my favorite scenes from the books is when Katniss relishes the hair growing back on her legs. I hadn’t much considered the cost of my own beauty routines until read Beauty Ethics and The Hunger Games written by Catholic author, Claire Bischoff. She explores American’s society’s expensive preoccupation with beauty and the other things we could be doing with our money.
Enjoy! or at least pause and think where you spend your beauty dollars.
Posted in Higher Education, MKTG 2350: Integrated Marketing Communications, St. Catherine University, Students, Video, Writing, tagged Best Buy, Innovation, solving consumer problems, St. Catherine University on July 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My integrated marketing communications students write amazing blogs about advertising, communications, social media, and our local business landscape. Below is a stunning excerpt analyzing a series of videos from our local company, Best Buy.
Enjoy.
Post #4: Best Buy– Where You Can Exchange Stuff or Change the World.
My overall impression of this commercial was dashed by the poor advertisement at the end, but all of the innovators featured in the commercial were things that I wanted to know more about so, of course, to the Internet I went. On YouTube, I immediately found the Best Buy channel, where all of their full-length commercials are archived. All of their “Future Innovators” are featured as well as the slightly older commercials “Mobile Innovators” (remember “we created Words with Friends”?). When you take the time to watch the longer features, they end with something so much more appropriate! “Making technology work for you,” “When the technology is right, anything can happen,” “A better way to a better world,” are all slogans that both identify and solve a consumer problem and create a significantly stronger ad campaign. See?
Marketing director, social media strategist and professor at St. Catherine University
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