About

Meryl K. Evans, Content Maven, has written and edited for AbsoluteWrite, ECT News Network, The Dallas Morning News, Digital Web, Lockergnome, PC Today, O’Reilly, Pearson, Sams, Wiley, and WROX. Meryl has written copy for businesses as well as Fib-or-Not? and Meet, Mix, and Mingle games.

Meryl writes and edits content for businesses and publications.

She is Editor-in-Chief of The Remediator Security Digest, a popular newsletter on computer security with over 100,000 subscribers. Businesses that want to build and maintain relationships with clients benefit from eNewsletter Journal, an email newsletter on how to use newsletters to increase business. She’s also the editor of Intel Solution Services’ Connected Digest.

Those who want to improve their Web sites can get guidance from the Web Design Guide @ InformIT and blog. Want some CSS inspiration? Check out the CSS Collection.

Meryl is also an educator with New York University’s online graduate program. 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.

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).

In the News and Around the Web

• 05-29-2006: How to be a better blogger — and still keep your day job
• 11-01-2005: McVille.net Interview
• 05-26-2005: SnagIt Interview
• 05-01-2005: BBS: The Documentary
• 04-18-2005:Passing The Acid2 Test
• 01-25-2005: Kick the Email Habit interview
• ??-??-????: LemurZone interview

News Releases

• 12-02-2005: Writing Community Unites to Write “Stories of Strength” for Disaster Relief
• 09-01-2005: CSS Collection Showcases Sites Large and Small
• 10-25-2004: Is Blogging Right for Your Business?

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: 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, submit an article query, a question, get expert advoce, or anything else (except spaham).

Meryl.net Articles

This is the part with free content, the good stuff. There are interviews, book reviews, software reviews, and any other views. Heck, it’s got articles that show you how to do stuff. If you’re interested in adopting an article or would like a similar article, give Meryl an e-call to discuss.

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. 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.

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. When in the real world, she is a technical writer and editor in a teleco’s data IT department.

Check out her (the only balanced diet she follows!) daily news diet at J-Log. She also 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.

Stats

• Sign: Cap-Aquarius (some say Capricorn and some say Pail 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 time since taking the first one in ‘90)
• Birth order: Da baby, but practically only child (siblings 10 and 13 years older)
• Favorites:
• TV Show: Charmed (so long, farewell… ye shall be missed)
• E-games: Shape Shifter, Word Mojo, Alchemy, and Bookworm
• Musical: Assassins
• Pro Teams: Mavs, Rangers, Cowboys, and Stars
• Birth place: Fort Worth, Texas
• College: TCU (one year) and American University grad

Colophon

• 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.