Sara Kerr

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

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  • 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…

  • 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…