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Links: Mom’s Ready for School 2009 Edition

Friday, August 7th, 2009 at 8:46 PM Category: Blogging, Business, Links, Meryl's Notes Blog, Tech, Writing No comments

The recent trip to Austin for Texas PTA’s awesome leadership seminar and PTA meetings to prepare for packet pickup blanket me with the feeling that school’s almost here. Is it time yet? Three years ago: school would’ve started this week.

But Texas legislature wanted to pump up tourism and cheap employment, it changed the required start date to late August. Thanks. We have bigger problems to worry about than when to start school.

We have a little over two weeks until school starts. We parents and guardians still have to deal with the packet pick up days and registration before then. (Read: write a lot of checks and pay lots of money.) Enough shootin’ and stompin’ and time for linkin’.

10 Reasons Twitter Might Actually Matter: For those who don’t want to bother reading the list of 62 ways to use Twitter.
30+ Principles to Better Landing Page Design: I happen to be reading and doing an abstract on Landing Page Optimization. Both give you the what and why.
WebQuest: “A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.” [Link: misscj]
10 Words I Would Love to See Banned from Press Releases: These are the types of words I tend to delete when I decide to publish a PR.

And for fun because we’re allowed…

Fancy Fast Food: Food network meets fast food = pretty fast food.
Tweet song lyrics to @lyricrat of http://lyricrat.com/ to get the title and artist.
Smokin’ Apps for mobile devices. Be sure to pick something other than “today” because nothing might appear.
Want a ‘do from the ’80s and be able to fix your way out of trouble? Here’s the salon for you.
Can it rain clouds? Or did someone have a giant whipped cream machine nearby?