Andrew Bindernagel takes his ice cream very seriously.

It’s not about eating. The PR Newswire customer content services specialist in Cleveland is into creating.

Bindernagel even went to Penn State’s week-long, intensive “Ice Cream College,” which has been attended by the likes of ice cream icons Ben, Jerry, and Jeni. Bindernagel’s goal is simple: Someday, he’d like to launch his own business.

“There’s something gratifying about seeing people become happy just from eating ice cream,” said Bindernagel, 30. “There’s something really fun about that.”

So why ice cream? Bindernagel literally might have his parents to thank for that.

Four years ago, his folks asked him what he wanted for his birthday. His answer: An ice cream maker. Assuming he’d never use it, his parents refused to purchase one. So Bindernagel picked one up and spent the next six months making huge quantities of ice cream to spite them, he said.

Before long, he was hooked.

A little more than a year ago, ice cream even played a part in his wedding to PR Newswire senior customer content specialist Kerry Noonan. The couple didn’t want a wedding cake. They chose cupcakes and Bindernagel’s homemade ice cream.

Bindernagel says he’s a Midwest guy at heart. He grew up in Cleveland and went to a Jesuit high school. He attended Fordham University in New York and majored in communications and media studies, with a minor in English. He also received a certificate in peace and justice studies. He graduated in 2005.

He landed at PR Newswire in 2007.

Bindernagel’s day starts at 6 a.m. on the multimedia desk, and he gets things organized for the team. The majority of his day is spent processing multimedia content that’s inserted into press releases. He also handles client questions and requests related to PR Newswire’s multimedia products.

“It’s really fast paced,” he said, mentioning the team aims to turn around multimedia components for press releases within minutes. “We’re never really doing one thing for very long.”

The PR Newswire Cleveland office houses a big chunk of the company’s employees, from sales to editorial to product support.

When work is over, Bindernagel goes back to his hobby, putting recipes together to create something awesome. In fact, he prefers more complex recipes beyond just milk, cream, and sugar.

“One little mess up can ruin an entire ice cream mix,” he says, mentioning his go-to secret ingredient is booze.

And his favorite ice cream flavor? Cookies and cream. Or, as Bindernagel makes it – cookies and Irish cream.

Christine Cube is a media relations manager for PR Newswire and freelance writer. You can follow her @cpcube.

Parents: Do you find yourself spending the majority of your time in your car driving around your city dropping and picking up kids from various practices, events, and appointments? It's a question Jeff Stephens asks this on his blog, Crazy Dad Life. There, he aims to help you with tackling the above. I like this blog because it's informative and well written. "You’ll hear how to survive the madness and navigate your daily family chaos," he says. "At the same time, I’ll provide tools and strategies to help you orchestrate your busy family lives, while balancing successful careers, and also finding some time to get online, get social, and join the parent community. Sounds like a lot, but it can be done, and it’s a great adventure." Read the full post on PR Newswire for Bloggers here.

Don't make the mistake of calling Chilli & Chocolate a Belfast food blog.  Its writers -- Kelly and Niall, a couple of dedicated food lovers in Northern Ireland -- stress that all food is fair game for coverage.  The blog is a "vehicle for sharing our passion for all things food-related: recipes, restaurant and wine reviews, cookbook recommendations, food experiences, ideas, and inspirations," the writers say. "Anything and everything will end up here, and from every corner of the world ... as long as it tastes good!" The blog was created in Nov. 2008 as a place for the duo to document their food lives: From dinner to restaurants to visit and wine recommendations. It features recipes and restaurant and wine reviews.  Check out this recipe for Irish potato bread. Read the full post here.

Tnooz is a travel blog that deals with how technology impacts the industry. When you think about it, technology is sort of crucial to travel. Unless, of course, you're walking. Today, apps and hybrid engines and a host of other technological advancements have made travel about as easy as it's ever been. That's where Tnooz comes in. This site offers tips to tech-savvy travelers. For example, the site outlines more than a dozen online resources and applications for travelers.  It also covers the travel tech industry from a business and investor perspective. Take this piece on which travel company Yahoo should buy.  But it's not all business over at Tnooz. Lighter fare includes this piece on a walking app that aggregates community data on walkable streets. Read the full post here.

Christine Cube is a media relations manager with PR Newswire and freelance writer. You can follow her at @cpcube or see what's happening over at @PRN4Bloggers.

Blog Notes is a weekly helping of blogs recently reviewed on PR Newswire for Bloggers. Would you like your blog reviewed? Tweet to PR Newswire media relations manager Christine Cube at @PRN4Bloggers.

In the spirit of graduation season, I dug for some great education blogs. One that particularly appealed to me was Surviving a Teacher's Salary. Who doesn't love a great teacher? I still remember my favorites.  Surviving a Teacher's Salary is a blog written by Crystal, who thinks "outside of the box to solve life’s problems." She happily introduces her family, including her pig, Ms. Ellie Mae. The blog features hot deals, crafts and activities, product reviews, travel and entertainment, grants and contests, and teacher resources. A recent blog post is DIY dog house made with wooden pallets. Read the full post on PR Newswire for Bloggers here.

Environmental Leader keeps corporate executives informed about energy, environmental, and sustainability news. It covers energy efficiency, emissions, carbon finance, facilities, supply chain, and smart grid. The energy efficiency space on the site, for example, features articles about companies "that efficiently use both conventional energy and renewable energy sources – such as solar and wind power." Environmental Leader has columns, news, videos, whitepapers, and webinars. Folks who follow the site also can sign up for a daily newsletter. I like this site because it’s incredibly newsy. Read the full post here.

SpanglishBaby is for the many parents out there raising their children to be both bilingual and bicultural. The blog is the brainchild of Latina moms and best friends since college, Ana L. Flores and Roxana A. Soto. The two found there were very little online resources for the growth of bilingual and bicultural families. So they launched SpanglishBaby. The site is broken down into several categories, including SB finds, the culture of food, bicultural vida, cultural travel, and books & libros. Spanglish Baby represents a true growth market. It's a unique market, sure. But it's still parents trying to raise their children as best they can, relying on the help and resources of others in the community. In any language that makes a lot of sense. Read the full post here.

Christine Cube is a media relations manager with PR Newswire and freelance writer. You can follow her at @cpcube or see what's happening over at @PRN4Bloggers.

Blog Notes is a weekly helping of blogs recently reviewed on PR Newswire for Bloggers. Would you like your blog reviewed? Tweet to PR Newswire Media Relations Manager Christine Cube at @PRN4Bloggers.

After celebrating moms a little more than a week ago, I figured it was time to look into The Mod Mommy. The blog is the work of Courtney Buteau, a "super-charged mom," who takes care of young family and Lhasa Poo. Buteau is a TV journalist in Providence, R.I. According to the blog, she takes pride in "knowing the latest about pop culture, food and parenting trends. She has a strong passion for these topics and is excited to share her tips and knowledge with mod mommies everywhere." The Mod Mommy covers parenting chitchat, product reviews, and recipes. A recent and fun post features homemade Play-Doh creations made with flour, salt, water, and food coloring. Read the full post on PR Newswire for Bloggers here.

TreeHugger is a site dedicated to "driving sustainability mainstream." It covers a lot of territory, including technology, design, transportation, science, business, living, and energy. At TreeHugger, you can find a "one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information." A recent post includes hairy skyscraper to collect energy through piezo-electric straws. It's about a Stockholm-based architecture firm that's proposing to fit a tower there with millions of energy-collecting "straws." Another popular post is particularly heartbreaking: Three male fish, the last of their kind, must find a mate or else go extinct. That's just sad; you're obviously pulling for this beautiful fish to continue on. Read the full post here.

I first discovered Scene Asia while researching art blogs, and I must say The Wall Street Journal's take on life and style in Asia is pretty amazing. There's just so much to see on here: arts and culture, fashion, food and drink, homes, people, travel, and wealth. According to the blog, Scene Asia "delivers a behind-the-scenes look at the region's dynamic culture, including Q&As with filmmakers, artists and chefs, news on arts and entertainment, and a spotlight on the most striking homes from Goa to the Gold Coast." One of my personal favorite recent posts include this dizzyingly vertical look at Hong Kong. Or this look at India's greatest architect, Charles Correa. Read the full post here.

It all began with a hashtag built around the conversation of public relations. It was simple enough: #prbreakfastclub and then shortened to #prbc. Eventually, PR Breakfast Club was born. Today, PR Breakfast Club is a place where folks talk shop: work, news, and things affecting the PR and marketing industry. It's open to anyone, especially those who share a penchant for social media. "Members of the PR Breakfast Club can’t really be defined beyond that," the blog says. "It’s a hashtag, it’s a conversation, it’s a group of flaks that are on Twitter, it’s a chance to vent, to catch up with friends near and far, and to start the day off right." You can find a list of the site's founders and authors here. Read the full post here.

Christine Cube is a media relations manager with PR Newswire and freelance writer. You can follow her at @cpcube or see what's happening over at @PRN4Bloggers.

They’re made with Stevia, coconut milk, rice protein, and pure cocoa. For the uninitiated, pure cocoa has not been processed, so you get all the benefits of the cocoa, including super high antioxidents and very few carbs.

See, when PR Newswire photography supervisor Evans-Ludderodt isn’t behind her camera, you can find her in the kitchen.  Food is her creative outlet.

“I cook everything organic,” Evans-Ludderodt said, adding that she “grew up in the people’s republic of Cambridge [Mass.], where there was a Whole Foods there before Whole Foods was even popular.”

Her foodie-ness began in childhood. Evans-Ludderodt wasn’t exposed to a lot of food preservatives or added sugar. She’s also always had an adventurous palate, gravitating toward different cuisines and eager to try new foods.

Roughly a year ago, she went all-organic with her meats and hasn’t looked back.

“When we use pesticides and then consume these foods, it hurts our bodies a little bit too,” she said. “A lot of things have so many pesticides. It puts wear and tear on your body because you’re fighting off something constantly. Since I went organic, I have a lot more energy and I feel better.”

How she landed in professional photography happened a lot like her food journey: She tried everything.

Evans-Ludderodt attended the Massachusetts College of Art, where she discovered she loved all things creative. She took wood sculpture, small metals, fashion, photography, video, glass blowing and regular sculpture. She loved it all and by the end of the year, she still couldn’t declare a major.

“I think of myself as a visual problem solver,” she said. “I picked photography because I thought it was the most egalitarian of the arts. It was mass produced, and it hung on its own merit. It was more ‘for the people art.’”

So after graduating, Evans-Ludderodt moved to Washington, D.C., worked in a studio, and eventually moved on to PR Newswire. That was a little more than six years ago.

Today, Evans-Ludderodt oversees the 400 freelance photographers worldwide who work with PR Newswire. She considers herself blessed to have such a creative job.

“It’s really an art to match the photographer to the shoot,” she said. “The majority of projects are long term projects that happen in many different cities. I love it when a client can show me what they want. Once I get an idea what they’re looking for, I match them with a photographer for a shoot.”

When shooting photos herself, Evans-Ludderodt said her favorite shots are portraits. To her, portraits are a “quick story condensed into one second.”

“In one image, you’re capturing the person and you’re using cultural and visual cues. Colors, body language, and their environment all are significant,” Evans-Ludderodt said. “It’s visual communication.”

Christine Cube is a media relations manager for PR Newswire and freelance writer. You can follow her @cpcube.