shark&minnow

• Detroit is a finalist for Summer X Games

  ESPN announced the competing cities had been narrowed down to Detroit, Chicago, Austin, Texas and Charlotte, N.C. Organizers Kevin Krease and Garret Koehler, with the support of city administration, business leaders and other stakeholders, submitted their official bid for the project in early April.… Continue

• American Noise

  We stumbled upon “American Noise,” a documentary by Nokia Music and The Sundance Film Festival that reveals the emerging sounds of our nation. It’s a great series, and we’re looking forward to the future additions as the investigate the rest of the country.… Continue

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  TEDxCLE 2013 to focus on collaboration as key to Cleveland’s future

  Cleveland’s fourth official TEDx event, TEDxCLE will take place Thursday, March 21st, 2013 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, beginning at 1 p.m.  At TEDxCLE, Cleveland’s innovators will speak on a variety of topics in order highlight areas in which Cleveland is excelling and reinventing itself.… Continue

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  Cleveland Jewish News: Jews of Interest

  We were recognized as “Jews of Interest” by the Cleveland Jewish News!

  Read the article “CJN Jews of Interest: Hallie Bram Kogelschatz and Eric Kogelschatz” here and watch the video below.

  Thank you Mike Butz for an outstanding article.

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• Google Analytics In Real Life

  Monitoring and tracking online metrics in order to optimize the customer experience has been a priority of technologists since the advent of the internet. Companies like Google have been recording our search queries, visits, clicks, user flows and beyond in order to create a database of motivations and behavior. And now, finally, marketing professionals are also realizing this opportunity. They now see the value in tracking and monitoring cross-channel marketing efforts and more importantly, understanding what, why and how to drive ROI using business intelligence and “big data” – the number one trend in marketing for 2013.… Continue

Fashion

A Bit About Fall Fashion…As Interpreted By a Northcoast Girl

Cleveland gets a bad rap for not being a place of “fashion.”  But I’m pretty sure that society as a whole has forgotten that there is only one chance to make a first impression.

Have I gone posh since entering the world of luxury retail?… Continue

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Summer Footwear

Hallie Bram Kogelschatz, the Marketing Director at Saks Fifth Avenue, shares lots of different styles that will take you from beach to the bash!

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Summer Style

Hallie Bram Kogelschatz, the Marketing Director at Saks Fifth Avenue, shares great ways to spice up any event as well as some summer styles in furniture.

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

As many of you know, Eric & I take time out from our lives as “civic avengers” to tend to our alter egos as advertising executives during the old 9-5 (if only those were the hours we worked – ha!).  Since returning to Cleveland I’ve spent my days as the Director of Studio Services & Content Generation (longest.… Continue

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Guardians of the Evolution: Mike Kubinski of CLE Clothing Co.

Guardians of the Evolution: Mike Kubinski of CLE Clothing Co.

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