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Making Art with Social Media

Posted in Social Media Marketing, tagged , , , , , on March 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I think I need to start making a list of items, services, pastimes, etc. that use social media to their benefit.

So far in this blog I have talked about:

  • Restaurants (www.grovelandtap.com)
  • Dry Cleaners (www.andersoncleaners.net/)
  • Music (www.jayhawksofficial.com/)
  • Plants (www.friendsschoolplantsale.com)

Art with Citrasolve by Kelli Perkins

Now, let’s add Making Art to the list.

One of my favorite art blogs is written by Kelli Nina Perkins, it’s called Common Life into Art. Kelli makes the most amazing art out of…anything. Today’s post referenced the most amazing photo manipulation using the cleaner, Citrasolve. I’m tempted now to run out and buy some. It’s going to be warm enough today that I could dissolve ink to my heart’s content on my back porch.

How is this effective social media?

Kelli’s written a fabulous book, Stitch Alchemy : Combining Fabric and Paper for Mixed Media Art, that I never would have known about it except that somehow I stumbled across her blog.

When she writes another book, will I buy it? Of course, I’ll be first in line.

How’s that for advertising a niche publication?

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The Jawhawks Official Marketing

Posted in Communication Tools, Minneapolis / St. Paul Marketing, Music, tagged , on March 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Now THIS was a show:

And it makes me wish for summer.

The Jayhawks Official Marketing Efforts are fantastic, visit their new YouTube channel to see what I mean.

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On my radar this week – December 7, 2010

Posted in Getting the word out, Minneapolis / St. Paul Marketing, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »

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 and recent press in Rolling Stone.

Discover Card’s deceptive and misleading product add-ons via telemarketing calls. Minnesota Attorney General files suit.

The Minnesota Governor’s Race. Minnesotans believe Emmer should concede. And the Economist bestowed upon us a new season:  Recount (to go with Winter and Road Construction, in case you are not from Minnesota).

Web Advertising and internet tracking. While I definitely see the correlation between an internet tracking opt-out and the do-not-call telephone registry, a better parallel is how advertising funds commercial television. Yes, we can purchase cable or satellite television, but at least we have the option of not.

The Current’s Rock the Cradle. How fun! I can’t think of a better way to spend (besides sledding and just plain hibernating) a Minnesota winter day. Kid’s will be dancing all over the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

The Snow Falling on my Blog. I’m note sure I like this or if it annoys me. But I love snow. For now, I’ll keep WordPress’ Extra for Snow Falling Around the World.

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The Music was Great — but who were the bands?

Posted in Getting the word out, Minneapolis / St. Paul Marketing, Music, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »

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 shows I remember – loud, disorderly, and pretty undecipherable.

Actually, the lyrics were pretty clear — no drink induced slurring — and passionate. I just wish I knew who the bands were. They all announced themselves when the took the stage, but the only band I could understand was the Honey Dogs. And I had already recognized Adam Levy, anyway.

The crowd looked a lot like me — people who had been to a lot of shows and now wisely wore ear plugs. Ear plugs are great to protect your ears from pounding base beats emanating 3 feet in front of you, but they make mumbles all the harder to understand.

Being totally out of touch with current bands — I seem to hit a lot of old favorites (the Jayhawks, Semisonic, Trip Shakespeare etc) now that I’m back in town– I thought I was hearing Babes in Toyland, only to discover this morning it was Pink Mink I enjoyed so much.

So what to do? First Ave already does a great job of marketing themselves virtually (Twitter, Facebook, and a super-robust website) and in the club with multiple screens publishing related Twitter feeds (sorry, I keep forgetting to take a photo of that). But the bands? Many have great websites, but that doesn’t help in the Main Room.

UPDATE: Here is the link to the City Pages review if you want to read about how awesome the music was and see the set list!

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Mark Olson performs in The Current studios | The Current from Minnesota Public Radio

Posted in Getting the word out, Minneapolis / St. Paul Marketing, Music, tagged , , on October 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Mark Olson performs in The Current studios | The Current from Minnesota Public Radio.

Another old favorite making new.

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