Sara Kerr
Musings
Category: Communication Tools
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Scanning Twitter this evening I came across a powerful Tweet from an old friend in North Carolina, professor Jacqueline Olich. She simply passed on the Tweet from someone else, which as you know, is the power of Twitter. Struck by this simple hashtag, #WhyIVote, I decided to Storify it with the best Tweets I could…
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I realize that’s an odd question, but one that pertains to how we buy and value products and services. Here are some examples: You see a house go on the market in a great neighborhood and it’s sold in 3 days. You hear a song on the radio and think, “Cool band, I’d like to…
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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…
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I was poking around Cathy Davidson’s HASTAC blog this afternoon seeking a something pithy, when I stumbled upon her post about the science of attention in Cymbalta’s television advertising. She researched direct-to-consumer prescription drug ads for her book, Now You See It, and now attributes our astronomical anti-depressant use to this phenomenon. For marketing students,…
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Friday afternoon — Black Friday — I met my brother at the Home Depot in St. Louis Park. My son had spent the night with his cousin and it was time to fetch him. St. Louis Park happens to be equidistant from our homes. Earlier that morning, my daughter, my other son, and I went…
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Today is Shop Small Saturday. After 11 posts dedicated to this day, I’m rounding out my series with handmade goods. You could spend all of next weekend driving around Minneapolis and St. Paul to hit all the amazing art and craft events. My favorite shopping experience every December is the Crafter’s Local 612 No Coast…
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In honor of Small Business Saturday and all the people working or getting ready to work, today is buy nothing day. I realize that today is technically almost over, but for me it lasts until I get up in the morning on Black Friday. Thus don’t expect me at Target, Walmart, BestBuy, Herbergers, or Kohl’s…
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