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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  • Cribbage and Craft Soda

    Cribbage and Craft Soda

    As a teenager I lived on Diet Coke. I’d wake up at 5:00 a.m. and drive to swim practice with a can in my hand. I gave up that habit a long time ago, but every so often I’ll buy one on a hot summer’s day, drink two sips, shake my head in wonder and…

  • Outlasting

    Outlasting

    Twenty Years. That’s a long time–not as long as my parents (55 years) or my in-laws (52 years), but impressive, I think, when 50% of marriages end for a reason besides old age. With multiple kids playing multiple sports, I understand how this anniversary can slip by, under-celebrated. I looked for bargain airfares. Sailboats, beaches,…

  • My New Job: Director of Content and Communications at the Minnesota Children’s Museum

    From teaching graduate school to promoting play — They have a lot in common.

  • Ice #MNWX

    My nonna used to terrify me with a story of falling through thin ice on a Massachusetts’s pond. Despite growing up on figure skates, I won’t skate across a lake unless it’s been below zero for 3 weeks or more. I’m definitely risk adverse when it comes to ice. Pea Soup and Deep Cracks Saturday’s fog…

  • The Best Tweet “Ever?”

    It depends on how you define, best, of course. It’s also a great question to ask college students, which I’ll do tomorrow. (And yes, I’ll give extra credit points to anyone from class who comments on this blog, today). If I asked my students in September to find the best Tweet ever, they probably would have…

  • Let’s Visit the Gallery: Art and Marketing Students

    Travel = Museums When I was 16 I wanted to see the Mona Lisa, in person. Travel means art museums. At home, like many people, I forget what’s in my backyard. Thankfully the Minneapolis Institute of Arts just send me a few emails reminding me of their new exhibit, Italian Style:  Fashion Since 1945. Fantastic…

  • Netflix is love Netflix is life.

    Originally posted on Hannah Kathryne: Ten years ago you would have been told you were crazy for thinking you could watch a whole television series on the internet. The idea of streaming movies online was fairly new if not unheard of. Netflix has been a revolutionary and their profits are living proof of that. Creative…

  • Studying Consumer Behavior Makes Content Marketing Customer Centric

    2.2 million blogs devoted to raising backyard chickens No one read My City Chickens. I have to admit, my goal in writing that blog was simply to document the process. I wasn’t expecting readers. However, I discovered that photographing chickens amused my friends and a few thousand other people in the Year of the Daily Chicken Photo. Now…

  • Vintage Television Commercials for #M2350

    Videos courtesy of the Duke University Libraries Digital Collections Would you buy television advertising? — The question of the week in Integrated Marketing Communications at St. Catherine University. American Safety Razor: Burma Blockade Deodorant, 1950s-1960s https://archive.org/embed/dmbb06623 Parliament https://archive.org/embed/dmbb06803 Pillsbury Instant Mashed Potatoes https://archive.org/embed/dmbb11605 P&G: Bonus Laundry Detergent, 1970s https://archive.org/embed/dmbb47808 P&G Sparkle Crest Toothpaste, 1980s https://archive.org/embed/dmbbvt00422…

  • Writing a Formal E-mail

    Originally posted on Barataria – The work of Erik Hare: Long ago in a High School far away, we were all taught how to write a formal business letter. It included the date, return address, and all the pertinent information needed to either file it away or write a reply. It also had a standard…