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Links: May First 2009 Edition

Friday, May 1st, 2009 at 12:06 PM Category: Business, Links, Marketing, Meryl's Notes Blog, Tech, Writing 3 comments

Sad to hear Fort Worth’s Mayfest is off this weekend thanks to swine flu. Attendees enjoy arts, entertainment and crafts. It also hit many of us with allergy and asthma attacks with all the hay (it almost always rained before or during Mayfest).

How not to be hated in Facebook
10 people to unfollow in Twitter
10 techniques for an effective ‘call to action’
Is PR really in the relationship business?
10 reasons to be grateful for difficulty
Letter from a Proofreader with Edits
The difference between male and female leaders: I always find these types of conversations fascinating.

And for fun because we’re allowed…

John Williams is the man! A Star Wars-themed four-part a cappella musical tribute. Performed by Corey Vidal and Moosebutter. Closed-captioned,too!
Swinefighter: Swine flu fighting game. Need a break from all the swine flu bad news? Here you go.
17 cool magnet tricks
Spreadtweet: “So, you work at a big corporate, huh? And you’re not allowed to use Twitter… Wouldn’t it be awesome if there were a Twitter tool that looked just like Excel?”

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3 comments

Posted by Davina / @DavinaH on May 1st, 2009, 6:31 PM
Hi Meryl. Yep, allergy season is upon us. I haven’t been bothered with allergies for more than a dozen years. This year? They’re back for no apparent reason. Sniff, sniff

I played the Swine Fighter… for about a minute — crazy. Many thanks for including the link to the Proofreader post.

Davina´s last blog post… Positively Breathing — A Series Intro
Posted by Jackie Cameron on May 3rd, 2009, 6:22 AM
Thanks for linking to the discussion about the difference between male and female leaders because it brought me here and the links I have read were really helpful!

Now looking at who to unfollow…
And how to effectively call to action…for a start

Jackie Cameron´s last blog post… Some further thoughts on women and leadership
Posted by Meryl / @merylkevans on May 3rd, 2009, 8:18 AM
@Davina, yes many of us are hit harder than usual with allergy season. Your post was worthy of a mention!

@Jackie, Ever since I read Deborah Tannen’s book, “You Just Don’t Understand” — I love reading about our inborn differences. No matter how we try to raise our kids as kids instead of girl/boy — they’re going to gravitate to some of our natural tendencies because of the differences in our brains. Also heard “The Female Brain” talks about this.