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Photo of Meryl K. Evans Meryl K. Evans, Content Maven, is the author of Brilliant Outlook Pocketbook and the co-author of Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites. She has written and edited for AbsoluteWrite, ECT News Network, The Dallas Morning News, Gamezebo, Lockergnome, MarketingProfs, PC Today, O’Reilly, Pearson, Sams, Web Worker Daily, Wiley, and WROX. Meryl has written copy for businesses ads and games including Fib-or-Not? and Meet, Mix, and Mingle.

Meryl writes and edits content for businesses and publications. She helps business build and maintain relationships with clients and prospects through content. She’s also a long-time blogger who started blogging on June 1, 2000.

She is the original Editor-in-Chief of Shavlik’s The Remediator Security Digest, a popular newsletter on computer security that started with a few thousand subscribers and climbed to over 100,000 subscribers during her tenure. She’s also the editor of Professional Service Journal, an email newsletter for business-to-business (B2B) service providers and Intel Solution Services’ Connected Digest.

Want some CSS inspiration? Check out the CSS Collection, which she handed off to talented folks who promised to keep the site strong.

Meryl has worked as an educator with New York University’s online graduate program where she continues to help students with their theses. She has worked for two Fortune 500 telecom companies, federal government in Washington, D.C. and IT consulting. A native Texan, she lives a heartbeat north of Dallas in Plano, Texas with her husband and three kiddos.

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Social Media

Let’s connect. Here are the places I’m most active.

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Why follow @merylkevans at twitter?

@georgeangus A bright spot on Twitter: @merylkevans

@marygazze @merylkevans great advice.Journos see the things ppl post on FB and Twitter and how it comes back to haunt them later #journchat

@MenwithPens @merylkevans Thanks for all the thoughtful comments you’ve made!

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@avilbeckford @merylkevans Thx for your blog post http://is.gd/lKVi. It made me smile.

@thewritermama @merylkevans #followfriday Check out this content maven and tech expert. She’s also a mom of three!

@BethHarte @merylkevans You’re right Leonard Pitts doesn’t get Twitter. The fact is a lot of great networking is done on Twitter. http://bit.ly/szCnu

@kathyoreilly for grt info sharing, @merylkevans #followfriday

@PhilGerb Sharing a #tweetmonial about @merylkevans: Insightful tips on writing, Twitter and connecting the dots. Enjoying the learnings!

@Matt_scherer #FollowFriday @merylkevans cuz she isn’t reminding me about the Mavericks

Media and Releases

Meryl can help the media by providing articles, resources, and contacts:

Provide experts and resources relating to Web design, Internet, software, hardware, and Internet marketing.
Write articles, blurbs, tips, and fillers within the required word count and meet deadlines for a variety of publications.
Respond to emails within 12 hours to help those needing a rush job.

She has an excellent reputation for providing quality content on time (even early) and an easy-going style. Email Meryl or call 972-624-7825 (relay service for the deaf).

What is Meryl “Two-syllables-not-one and rhymes with Cheryl” dot Net?

Meryl’s Notes – The Blog

This is also known as weblog, blog, bloggin’, rambles, yadda yaddas, or [fill in the blank]. meryl’s notes cover the big three! Sing with me (I won’t use my tonedeaf voice): webby, geeky, and wordy.

Feel free to beg others to check them out. It’s OK to come back. It’ll be our secret. If you’re not coming back, I beg you to please, please, please come back! Tell me why? Why? Someone out there must like it here because www.meryl.net is one of the 101 Best Web Sites for Writers in 2005 by Writer’s Digest in its May 2005 issue.

Contact Meryl, if you’d like the content maven’s services, submit a book or product for review, a press release (make sure it’s on topic!), submit an article query, a question, get expert advice, or anything else (except spaham).

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History

Meryl first joined the Internet pre-revolution in 1992 with Internet in a Box. She blogged the rest of the meryl history for your reading boredom.

Why the dull, uncreative names?

She racked her brain to come up with a name that would stick. Alas, nothing came. Ironically, she loves to read about names and the meanings behind them. She is even a professional namer! Yet, Meryl couldn’t name this electronic baby.

She never had a nickname, a big hobby, or a way for making up a creative name using her name. For example: If your last name was Boot, then a good Web name would be “Reboot.” Although she did have a handle when BBSing (pre-Internet) days, she was embarrassed for ever having used it. Considering “meryl” is so uncommon, she used it and figured a better name would come later. No brilliant idea ever came. Even when trying name the articles section, nothing clicked. So, meryl whatever stuck.

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Not So Vital Info

Bio: The cool version

Meryl has been hanging out on the Internet since 1993, 1800s in digital years. She fell in really like (love is for folks) with it at first text (as in Lynx and UNIX-based email and surfing) site.

Ms. Content Maven has written for anything and everything relating to Web design, technology, software, hardware, online marketing, grammar, and writing. She is the [pick one] president, CEO, CIO, CFO, UFO, and founder of meryl.net, writing, editing, copy, and all that extra stuff services.

She writes about living life as a deaf person. Her numero uno priority-a is de familia. You can find the southpaw not wearing 10-gallon hats and cowboy boots in the Lone Star State.

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Stats

Sign: Cap-Aquarius (some say Capricorn and some say water bearer – I drink lots of H20, it’s usually the latter)
Birthday: January 20 – Inauguration Day (how ironic, doesn’t closely follow politics — just enough to make the right voting decisions.
Myers-Briggs: ISTJ, ISTJ,ISTJ (every single time since taking the first one in ‘90)
Birth order: Da youngest, but practically only child (siblings over a decade older)

Favorites

TV Shows: Monk, Cold Case, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Veronica Mars (I know it’s canceled, but just showing my support — it should’ve been on one of the big three networks — it was one of the best shows. Ever.).
Games: The Game Zen aka meryl.net Games
Musicals: Wicked and Assassins (I know the subject matter sounds bad, but the music is fantastic and I can’t get enough of the songs. It provides a history lesson, too.)
Pro Teams: Mavs, Rangers, Cowboys, and Stars
Birth place: Fort Worth, Texas
College: TCU (freshman year and many years as a child for speech therapy), American University (finally won a basketball championship!) grad, and some post-college classes at SMU and Amberton.

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Site created with CSS and strict XHTML using text editors and Dreamweaver.
Validated W3C CSS and XHTML compliant (if you run the validator on XHTML, it says that ID is invalid, but it is required for accessibility) upon first release.
Validated Section 508 compliant upon first release.
Validated WAI compliant upon first release.
www.meryl.net named one of the 101 Best Web Sites for Writers in 2005 by Writer’s Digest.
Received Talking Hands award for validation and accessibility.
You’re right. There are validation errors. This was not the case when the design was born.
Yes, you may link to this Web site. No need to send an e-mail asking.