Sara Kerr

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Category: Communication Tools

  • What if my Students Marketed St. Kate’s…

    Today I challenged my INDI 2090 Promotional Communications students to apply the principles of their textbook, The New Rules of Marketing and PR to our school, St. Catherine University. We began with the Mission of the University because all marketing must support an organization’s goal. We chose a section of the Catholic Identity: From its…

  • Yelp! If you are Small Business Using Interactive/Social Media

    My new favorite restaurant is a tiny deli tucked into the corner of an old apartment complex. Acme Deli has maybe 4 tables and a 1000 different sandwich combinations. The food is great. I stopped in recently because everyone I knew was talking about it. Everyone. Even the kids at the bus stop. So I…

  • The Internet as a Teaching Tool…Why I use Mashable.com

    This week, I assigned my Promotional Communications students about 25 URLs to read or watch. I did this because I couldn’t find a textbook in June that adequately presented interactive media let alone grasped its importance. As a teacher, it’s a lot harder to teach from a series of articles than to follow a publisher’s…

  • Rosemark’s Bakery (via AnnaMary’s Blog)

    And it smells wonderful when you walk by…on the side of Snelling that hasn’t seen any renovations in a long time. Not too long ago I was having breakfast with some friends at one of my favorite local diners. As we were walking out we smelled this faint, yet fresh aroma of baked goods. We…

  • Fall into Style with Local Color (via Elinor)

    Super store and an amazingly creative owner. STUDENTS – if you are looking for a client for one our classes, I would suggest contacting Elinor. 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.   Thursday, September   23 1559 Randolph / Saint Paul / 55105 The fall collection at ELINOR is awash in color. Join us for a style show…

  • My Not-So-Smart Phone that’s always in my pocket

    It’s a great phone. I’ve dropped it at least 20 times and it still works. For the longest time, that was all I wanted in a phone. My Samsung Gravity from T-Mobile actually does a lot of cool stuff — it takes pictures, it sends texts, it sends pictures, it calls people, and lets me…