Squidoo Pets
Feb 8th
Giant Squid lensmaster OhMe has created a fun lens about Squidoo Pets.
Excerpt: Lensmasters on Squidoo have often written about their pets so I thought it would be fun to have a quiz to see who can quess which pet belongs to who.
The lens is just adorable but what I really like about it is the way it’s designed, and how she used several Quiz modules, each containing one question, instead of placing all of the questions into one. This really spotlights each question, and pet, and I’d bet it inspires more people to answer her questions.
Have you used a quiz module in a creative way? Share the link here so we can all take a look.
And be sure to stop by OhMe’s Squidoo Pets lens to try your luck!
It’s Monday! Are you busy working on a new lens? Did you know that more lenses get created on Mondays than any other day of the week?
The next busiest day for lens creation is hump day, Wednesday.
Purple Stars Awarded Week Ending 2/5/2010
Feb 5th
Here’s a list of all the Squidoo Giant Squid lenses that were awarded Purple Stars during the week ending 2/5/2010. As always, they appear in no particular order and each is worthy of a visit from you.
- The Carry On Films
- Beautiful Art from Richard Burns
- Blue Collar Workers are Indispensable
- Florida Alligators
- Funny Caricature Drawings
- How to Make Perfect Scrambled Eggs without a nonstick pan!
- Boonie Stomping – Hiking the Guam Way!
- Purple Phalaenopsis Orchids
- Free Digital Photo Editing
- How to Make a Dish Scrubbie
- Teach your Dog to Walk on a Treadmill
- Secrets of Bereaved Children
- Led Zeppelin
- What is a Lensblography?
- The Italian Cook’s Herb Garden
- My New Grandson Makes Me a First Time Gramps
- Barney Stinson for President
- St Tiggywinkles
- Portraits Constructed Out Of Unconventional Materials
- 1953 Ford Golden Jubilee Tractor
Not sure if a Giant Squid lens you’ve found is Purple Star worthy? Here’s a quick guide:
If the lens makes you say WOW, or if you think EVERYONE should read it, or if you think the lens is really creative, or if you publish a lens you want the whole world to see; NOMINATE IT!
You’ll know it when you see it!
And when you do see it, please take a moment to send it to purplestar@squidoo.com
Squidoo Giant Squid Good News Blast
Feb 4th
Thursday’s at the Giant Squid Showcase are reserved for YOUR GOOD NEWS. Read all about it!
Bdkz and Jbdkz got a cute new puppy this week! Be sure to congratulate them and maybe offer up a few tips!
BrandyT’s darling son was featured on the cover of Alabama Baby and Child Magazine this week!
Squidoo announced that they will be giving away an Apple iPad! Will you be the lucky recipient? Learn how to win it here: The Squidoo iPad Giveaway
What’s your good news?
Did you start a new blog? Find some Squid Success? Receive a special honor? Are you going to be a Grandma? Did you get a new puppy? Start a new business venture? Get published? Reach a milestone, or create a special new lens?
Whatever your good news is, no matter how large or small, we want to hear about it!
Share your Giant Squid Good News with me (rms) and I’ll blast it out to the community for you next Thursday, right here, at the Giant Squid Community Showcase!
Top Music Challenge Lenses
Feb 3rd
For last week’s Giant Squid Training Camp lens challenge we teamed up with the RocketMoms and the Squidoo Music blog.
Tons of new lenses were created and I honestly have no way of knowing who posted their lenses where. 
So in order to show off at least some of the many great lenses that were created for this challenge I’m going to post the lenses that were added to to Friends of the RocketMoms plexo at the RocketMoms Session 5: Music Lens
- Top 3 Rock Bands of the 70’s
- Robert Lockwood Jr.
- Coffee Cup Blues
- Folk Music Icons in Concert
- Fairport Convention
You’ll find this week’s GSTC lens challenge by visiting: Back to Basics Lens Challenge
All are invited to participate, no matter how many lenses you have!
Squidoo Spotlight Interview with Aldric_Chang
Feb 2nd
Today’s Squidoo Spotlight Interview is with 100 club lensmaster Aldric_Chang.
“Aldric Chang is a creative businessman who is active in music composing and production, internet marketing, casual games production, animation production, cartoon production and character licensing.”
Read on to learn more about Aldric_Chang!
1. How has Squidoo.com enhanced your 3d animation Studio Mediafreaks and animation blog?
Obviously adored by Google, lenses on Squidoo enjoy a lot of organic traffic. My lenses enjoy relatively good traffic and they in turn direct
traffic to my animation studio website, Mediafreaks.com and Mediafreaks blog . On top of that, I enjoy an SEO boost for keywords I use as anchor backlinks on my lenses, for example ‘3d animation studio’ for Mediafreaks.
You might also be interested to know that I am currently developing a virtual world for kids called ‘The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks‘ and Squidoo has helped a great deal. Through the analytics, I know that Squidoo has directed more than 3000 visitors to the virtual world’s pre-launch sign up since May this year. What I did was set up a bunch of informative lenses related to virtual worlds and video games. Ever since they have been attracting visitors and many of them visit my virtual world through these lenses. The sign up rates are very high because most of the visitors are highly targeted traffic. The virtual world is only launching on Christmas Eve but we have already garnered more than 10,000 signups from over 130 countries worldwide.
2. Who, or what, brought you to Squidoo in the first place and how quickly did you realize its potential?
I read about Squidoo through an internet marketing book and I was hooked onto it since day one. It’s really an ingenious idea and an excellent platform for people who:
(1) want to share with others what they know
(2) get themselves known
(3) drive traffic to personal sites
(4) earn some pocket money through Squidooing!
3. Which of your many lenses is your favorite and why?
It would have to be Anime Character Design . It is about creating engaging character designs and one of my very first lenses.
It made it to top 100 and Lens of the Day very early since its birth and has consistently stayed popular ever since. I’ve also received a lot of
compliments due to this particular lens. If I can squeeze in one more, it would be Aldric Chang . Squidoo just makes it so easy and pleasurable to write about yourself and your aspirations.
4. Batman or Superman?
Superman. Because I would love to fly, have superhuman strength and be able to save people in distress.
Refer a Friend to Squidoo, Win an iPad
Jan 31st
For every new lensmaster you refer and teach to make 5 great lenses (each), you get an entry into the Squidoo iPad giveaway.
Find Complete Rules and More Information Here:
The Squidoo iPad Giveaway
Contest runs January 29th 2010 through March 17th 2010 (St. Patrick’s Day!)
Purple Stars Awarded Week Ending 1/29/2010
Jan 29th
Here are all of the Squidoo Giant Squid lenses that were awarded Purple Stars during the week ending 1/29/2010. As always, they appear in no particular order and each is worthy of a visit from you.
- Can this Really be Cancer?
- Southern African Witchdoctors
- Broadway Shows
- Once More With Feeling
- The Best HDTVs for 2010
- Strange Parenting Tales: Fact or Fiction?
- About the Indian Spicy Foods
- The Christening Dress
- Children Learn About Haiti
- I Hate Housework
- VA Disability Compensation
- The Butterfly House
- The Baobab Tree of Zimbabwe
- Painting with a Stencil
- 10 things You should Know About Blood Pressure Readings
- Robbie Burns Day
- Retro Rockabilly Pin-up Hair
- Power User’s Guide to SAS Programming – by Phillip R Holland
- Florence Nightingale
- Want Less Crime? Add More Guns!
Not sure if a Giant Squid lens that you’ve found is Purple Star worthy? Here’s a quick guide:
If the lens makes you say WOW, or if you think EVERYONE should read it, or if you think a lens is really creative, or if you publish a lens you’re really, really proud of; NOMINATE IT!
You’ll know it when you see it!
And when you do see it, please take a moment to send it to purplestar@squidoo.com
Giant Squid Good News Blast 1/28/2010
Jan 28th
Thursday’s at the Giant Squid Showcase are reserved for YOUR GOOD NEWS and this week we received some GREAT news from several Giant Squid lensmasters. Read all about it!
Linchpin:
Our first bit of good news is that Seth Godin’s newest book Linchpin: Are you Indispensable? was released this week and with it came a fun new Squidoo co-brand template that you can use to honor the Linchpin people in your life.
See an example that I made HERE
Or visit Linchpin Headquarters to make one of your own!
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We received some good news from Flowski:
I have been working on a new website/blog to compliment my success in the gift ideas niche on Squidoo, Gifts and Ideas Blog , and as soon as I’m done dotting the T’s and crossing the I’s there I’m going to touch up old lenses and churn out some nice new Squidoo’s to tie into it.
You know we were on the road all last summer, then when we settled back down in Tahoe, and that Christmas lens of mine started blasting off. Then it was all I could do to keep up with it. 20,000 hits a day is more responsibility than I ever imagined, I actually felt great pressure to keep it perfect. I had to work on that lens literally constantly, replacing sold out products, rotating items not selling, trying to keep up with Gil and his editor switch over and back again etc… I bet it was updated at least 100 times a day, Google cached it every couple of hours. In fact some more good news, it’s still like #3 for “best gifts” on Google and my green gifts is #4 on Google just below it. WOW I’m #3&4 on Google for best gifts below gifts.com!!! – how cool is that? Squidoo is so amazing…
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We got good news from Mysticmama:
The Squidoo Music Blog at Crabby’s Beach is looking for the best Music lenses on Squidoo.
If you are interested in being featured at this great blog be sure to visit the Squidoo Music Awards lens and submit all of your best Music lenses!
This is an awesome way to grab some extra publicity for your best Music lenses.
Don’t miss out!
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This good news was sent in by luvmyludwig who is helping a friend spread some love to Haiti:
As you might know, a group of Zazzlers united trying to make a difference and help unfortunate people on Haiti – we created a store which donates all of it’s earning to Hope for Haiti and Zazzle.com is matching it’s earning by donating dollar for dollar! Yay!
What I would like to ask you is to help us spread the word!
If you could share a link to the lens: Message of Love – Hearts 4 Haiti
Or directly to the store: Hearts for Haiti to your friends, relatives, etc. or blog about it, or help in any other way, it would be great!
And you know – every little bit helps!
Have a great day!
Michelle aka a_willow
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Apple iPad
And as you probably know, the new Apple iPad was announced this week! I think I want one but I’m not sure. Can you help me decide?
Visit my iPad vs Kindle and join the debate about which one I should I buy?
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What’s your good news?
Did you start a new blog? Find some Squid Success? Receive a special honor? Are you going to be a Grandma? Did you get a new puppy? Start a new business venture? Get published? Reach a milestone, or create a special new lens?
Whatever your good news is, no matter how large or small, we want to hear about it!
Share your Giant Squid Good News with me (rms) and I’ll blast it out to the community for you next Thursday, right here, at the Giant Squid Community Showcase!
GSTC – Top Hey MonkeyBrain! Lenses
Jan 27th
Last Week’s GSTC – (Giant Squid Training Camp) lens challenge was to build a Hey MonkeyBrain! lens that really got people talking.
We had many awesome entries but here are the top two from each category that had the most discussion going on when I viewed them this morning.
Going for Giant
Cats are TOTALLY Better than Dogs
Going for 100 Club
Animals Should be Rescued after a Natural Disaster
Who are you Calling a Monkey Brain?
Already in the 100 Club
Visit the Hey MonkeyBrain Lens Challenge lens to see all of the wonderful participating lenses.
This week’s challenge is to create a Music Lens. Read all about it here: 1/27/2010 GSTC Music Lens
Visit the So You want to be a Giant Section of Squidu to join us for Giant Squid Training Camp!
All are invited to join in, no matter how many lenses you have!
You’ll find all past daily tips and weekly lens challenges at the Official Giant Squid Training Camp Lens
Spotlight on bdkz
Jan 25th
Since it’s a special day for a special lady I thought I’d do a special Spotlight post.
Happy Birthday Bonnie!
As you probably already know, bdkz (Bonnie) is THE RocketMoms Organizer, and the better half of our Giant Squid Organizers team but she’s also a damn good lensmaster with 330 lenses under her belt.
In honor of this special occasion I wanted to share a few of my favorite bdkz lenses. Enjoy!
bdkz’s Best Squidoo Tips is a must read if you are interested in joining the Giant Squids.
Bonnie is also a Zazzler and again, she’s willing to share her best tips. If you are interested in learning about Zazzle, don’t miss this lens: Zazzle 101: How to make a profit on Zazzle
Unique Toilet Seats For Your Home is a terrific example of a great (and successful) shopping lens. It’s also a lot of fun to look at!
Here’s a few lenses to help you get to know Bonnie better:
A Peek into my Closet. The Clothes that Define Me.
Bonnie’s Top 10 Favorite songs of All Time
My Favorite 1970’s Electronics
Want even more information about Bonnie?
Read this: Who is Bonnie Diczhazy?
Be sure to stop by one of bdkz’s lenses today and wish her a Happy Birthday!
Tell her Robin sent you!
