Sara Kerr

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Category: Twitter

  • 10 Best Replacements Related Tweets (and a few more)

    And two more I just found with insert-your-favorite-adjective photos: Tommy & Paul – Midway Stadium pic.twitter.com/fugsmZYWOF — Darin K (@Darin_K_) September 14, 2014 This. pic.twitter.com/zCG0uj1mSC — Martin Devaney (@martin_devaney) September 14, 2014   Dear everyone I’ve ever known. See you tonight at the Replacements! — Steve Nelson (@stevenelsonmn) September 13, 2014   A Westerberg @StPaulSaints…

  • Social Evolution! Do YOU Notice Favorite Events Becoming More Social?

    What’s your favorite local event? The Uptown Art Fair? The Current Birthday Party? Rock the Garden? The Renaissance Festival? Mine is the Irish Fair, held every August at on Harriet Island. I go every year. I love the music, the dancing, the dogs, and now the new author’s table in the cultural pavilion. The people…

  • Shout Out St. Kate’s Day: Teaching New Media with the Pride of Public Relations

    Shout it out! Show your pride! Be a Katie! Thursday is Shout Out St. Kate’s Day. My students wrote, produced, starred in and generally lived and breathed the topic since early February. They’ve had one month to learn the public relations value of this event and contribute their own creativity to the effort. What did…

  • Post-Yoga Creativity, Vine, and Teaching

    My post yoga day This morning I wrote about my need for yoga and my tendency to not go if I get too busy. Today I practiced and it paid dividends. I came home to write a pop quiz for my MKTG 2350 students and devise a new assignment for them involving Vine and blogging.…

  • Live Tweeting

    Great advice on professional live tweeting. Educational Technology and Change Journal By Melissa A. Venable [Note: ETCJ’s Twitter editor, Jessica Knott, has been working with Melissa to develop this series. See Part 1: Getting Started, Part 2: Channeling the Streams, and Part 3: Curating the Chaos. -Editor] This final installment in this series offers guidance on…

  • The Minnesota TweetUp for Earth Day at the Science Museum of Minnesota

    I spent this great, rainy Saturday at the Science Museum of Minnesota because I tweet. Really, I think that’s the real reason I was invited. Me, a bunch of science folks and other interesting people like economics writer, Erik Hare and musician and nerd (not necessarily in that order), Jeremy Messersmith. I watched 1.5 cubic…

  • Wonderful summation of how to read Twitterfeeds in a meaningful way: taming the chaos. Educational Technology and Change Journal By Melissa A. Venable [Note: ETCJ’s Twitter editor, Jessica Knott, has been working with Melissa to develop this series. See Part 1: Getting Started, Part 2: Channeling the Streams, and Part 4: Participating in a Live Event.…

  • 3 Great Uses of Twitter: “Bonny Bear,” #NotBuyingIt, and Breaking News

    ONE:  To find out what people are really talking about — the back story to the news ‘Bonny Bear’ wins two Grammys, confounds populace  The Grammy’s bore me, so I recorded the 3 1/2 hour show and whizzed through all the stuff I didn’t care to see. I was delighted to hear Bon Iver win…

  • Content Marketing and Consumer Buyer Behavior Example From the Lice Ladies

    Ruling out catastrophic illness or accidents, discovering lice on their child’s head is a parent’s nightmare. I teach a lot of marketing classes. Not surprisingly, various theories cross over between classes. In searching for a unique example to demonstrate content marketing, social media, buyer behavior, and selling strategy; I landed upon head lice marketing. Before…

  • Teaching Social Media: Twitter

    At St. Catherine University I teach social media in many classes. Invariably, the first time I project a Twitter screen my students tell me they don’t use it. Of course, it’s my job to tell them why, teach them how, and assist them in developing strategies for their clients. (We partner with small, local businesses,…