Start your week right! Every Sunday I post my favorite links from around the web and share my goals for the upcoming week.

Links

On Careers:

10 Ways to Ensure a Smooth Transition When You Leave a Job: Getting ready to leave a job for a new one? PR professional Rachel Esterline suggests 10 things you should do during your final weeks to ensure a smooth transition. Super smart tips here to keep your reputation intact.

How to Negotiate: Derek Halpern is one of my favorite bloggers because of his no-nonsense attitude. In this video post, Derek shares three simple tips for better negotiation. Tip #3 was completely new to me!

Networking: A Love Letter: Adam Britten explains how and why he attributes much of his career success to networking, both online and off.

On Email Marketing:

 8 Things to Do Immediately After You Get a New Email Subscriber: When I saw this post in Alexis Grant’s weekly roundup, I knew I had to include it, as well. Ramsay from the Blog Tyrant outlines 8 things bloggers should do when they get a new email subscriber.

On PR:

Want to Upset a Reporter? Call to ‘Follow Up’ on Your Email: In college PR classes, we were taught that the follow up phone call to a reporter was key, but this PRBreakfastClub blog post by Brian Reid argues otherwise. Now that I actually practice PR in the real world, I tend to agree with Reid, although I do see reason for follow-up phone calls in certain situations. Do you?

On Social Media:

Fake Hacks Are NOT a Good Marketing Plan: In the wake of a few major brands being hacked on Twitter this week, PR pro and mentor extraordinaire Jason Mollica discusses why fake hacks are NOT a smart idea.

On Blogging:

10 Easy Ways to Get Noticed Simply By Being Generous: Writer/blogger Dana Sitar outlines 10 easy ways to get noticed by….here’s a shocker: being nice online, in her latest Brazen Careerist post.

On Life:

Constantly Refreshing Your Email Isn’t “Rest”-And Other Truths About Taking Time Off: YES. Nicole Antoinette hits the nail on the head with this post and explains that escapism does not=rest.

Goals

• Create my Broad Street Run training plan. On Monday, I found out that I was officially accepted into the Broad Street Run (YAY!) so now I need to create a training plan and get to work! Since one of my running goals for this year is to get speedier, I definitely want to PR my previous Broad Street time of 1:57.
• Kick this cold. Between several people in my office being sick and then some kind of cold sweeping my entire house, I knew I couldn’t avoid it for long. I plan to spend a large part of today resting to kick this thing and get back to my active self, as soon as possible.

Have any links or goals you’d like to share? Leave them in the comments!