Sara Kerr

Musings

Category: Virtual and Real World Synergy

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • This is a re-post of a lesson from Integrated Marketing Communications at St. Catherine University. It was originally posted in the private class blog. As much as we live in an online world, paper still has a place. Everywhere I go, I bring a couple of business cards. To the conference I presented at recently,…

  • In marketing, we always talk about distinguishing yourself, finding your niche, emphasizing your uniqueness. Lately, I’ve been telling my students to think about using paper. Paper, as in door hangers, business cards, and table tents. All with QR codes, of course. But paper, never the less. Why? Because people don’t use it that much anymore.…

  • Get your tickets now — it’s FREE! What is the UnSummit? UnSummit is an alternative, “unconference,” not unlike a BarCamp. That means full participation, full dissemination and free admission — all the things that traditional conferences are not. Unsummit was conceived by Don Ball of Polymer Studios in October 2008 as an alternative to the…

  • JUNE 3, 2011. I was reading my favorite local food blog The Heavy Table about a new St. Paul restaurant, the Asian Deli and noticed something:  Ever curious I clicked it and saw this:  How cool. Now I have something saved in “the Cloud” aka some server in cyber space to remind me of a…