Sara Kerr

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

Category: Minneapolis / St. Paul Marketing

Marketing activities in the Saintly City (aka St. Paul) and its big sister, Minneapolis.

  • My Twitterview and Love of St. Paul

    Monday, I was Twitterviewed by Joel Carlson – a cool social media strategist here in the Twin Towns. I don’t interview well, but I think Twitter is a better medium then phone for me. I still haven’t figured out how talk with my hands in either media. My point, though, is how much I talked…

  • YouTube: Why Didn’t I Think of That.

    I teach social media. I use social media everyday. Yet every couple of weeks I’m surprised what I find. I mean really surprised. Yesterday I wrote about seeing U2 in Dublin in ’89, but until–yesterday–I never thought to check YouTube for bootleg videos. Here’s one from Saturday night: I should so know better, but I…

  • The One Mile Project: Espresso Royale and Road Construction Perks

    As I mentioned last week, I walk to work under gracious old trees. Depending on my route, I can stop at one of any 10 coffee shops. Given that the dew point hit 82 last week, hot coffee hasn’t been too appealing. However, one of my neighborhood coffee shops, Espresso Royale has the ultimate hot…

  • U2: Dublin 31-12-89, Minneapolis 23-7-11, the Claw, the Scalpers and the Lovely Rain

    Almost 22 years ago I was here: That’s me in the front row with the camera at the beginning of the video. Last night I saw them again. It was a big decision to go, actually. How could I ever top New Year’s Eve 1989? It was 6 weeks after the Berlin wall fell. Europe…

  • The One Mile Project: Saintly City Trees — Where’s your favorite?

    From home to work is usually a lovely walk. Flat city sidewalks shaded by old elms, maples, oaks, cottonwoods, basswoods, and the occasional Ginkgo. The trees are so lovely in the Saintly City, we even have a Landmark Tree program. Anyone can nominate their favorite tree. Click here to see last year’s trees, photographed by…

  • The University Avenue Project: On’s Thai Kitchen + Secrets of Navigation

    The food was sooooo good I forget to take pictures. And it was beautiful. Thai food always has a visual aesthetic, but even our mixed up salads were gorgeous — imagine little squid tentacles bathed in lime juice and chili with lots of cilantro. 17 people on Yelp agree with me, granting On’s a 4…

  • The University Avenue Project: How many places can YOU visit?

    It must be the heat, but no one felt like cooking and everyone wanted a cold, spicy Thai salad. We ventured outside of the round-square, aka The One Mile Project and headed to University Avenue. If you live in Minnesota you really know that there are truly only two seasons, winter and road construction. It’s…

  • The One Mile Project: Palumbo’s Pizzeria

    Friday night we walked to Palumbo’s Pizzeria at 454 Snelling Avenue South, Saint Paul, MN 55105 They don’t have a website per se, but you can like them on Facebook. Awesome pizza. I love Punch, Grandpa Tony’s, Carbone’s, the Italian Pie Shoppe, Cosetta’s, the Red Savoy and just about every independent pizza restaurant in the Saintly…

  • The One Mile Project — Dining in a One Mile Circle in St. Paul

    I have to credit my husband with this idea. We were (once again) talking how much we loved St. Paul and he suggested we pick an area and try something new from there each week. Given that I already spend a lot of time at St. Kate’s, we opted for the area around Macalester College…

  • I Need a Hashtag for the @stkate Leadership Institute – Please Advise!

    I’m a member of emarketing team for the St. Catherine University Leadership Institute. My colleagues — brilliant women from all over Minneaplis-St. Paul are developing a social media plan to raise awareness of the Leadership Institute and bring in more students. We’re sharing the love with social media instead of keeping one of the best…