Thursday’s at the Giant Squid Showcase are reserved for YOUR GOOD NEWS.  Read all about it!

This good news came in from Growwear:

Today, I am very happy to report that Squidoo Lens Reviews has now moved to a WordPress blog. The address is still the same (http://blog.growwear.com), but the format is going through a huge makeover.

The main purpose for this move is to take advantage of the many WordPress tools to help the blog grow beyond Squidoo to reach the writers out there who don’t know about the great community of Squidoo.

Along with these changes, I am looking for a few writers to join in and write about the great lenses they’ve come across. Some of these lensmasters will be receiving a personal invitation, but I encourage you to let me know if you are an interested reviewer. I will certainly give you due consideration.

There will be five writers (Authors) who post once a week on their chosen day. There will be a few contributing authors (Contributors) who post when they are inspired. And, we’ll have a private Ning community for helping each other grow along the way. Plus, both Authors and Contributors will have the potential for affiliate sales (Zazzle.com) from each post they write.

Happy Thursday to you! And write me; tell me about your passion for finding great lenses!

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I had the pleasure of meeting a fellow Squid in person this week!

NYFamily5 and I met for coffee and had a very pleasant chat about our mutual Hometown and Squidoo.

It was fun and pretty much the first time that I was able to discuss things like Giant Squids, and modules, and lenses, face-to-face with someone who really understood what I was talking about. 

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But the very BEST news of all that I heard this week is that our Cancer Warrior has reportedly won her battle!

We love you Susan52.  Stay Healthy!

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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!

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!

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!

This Good News came in from 24websurf.

Drifter0658 is a new Grandpa!

Congratulations Alex!

Be sure to stop by and congratulate him at this wonderful lens of his:

My New Grandson Makes me a First Time Gramps

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kab shared good news about SquidKiva.

SquidKiva made $3000 in kiva loans during 2009, with a total of 32 members.
SquidKiva is a Squidoo Lensmaster Lending Team for kiva.org, which makes loans in increments of $25
to entrepreneurs around the world who don’t have access to banking.  These loans
improve the quality of life for the borrower and their family, and help to build
a strong local economy, therefore helping the entire village.

Our goal for 2010 has been set to the same bringing it to a total of $6000 by
the end of the year, and we hope to have 60 squidoo lensmasters on the team.

http://www.squidoo.com/squidkiva

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The RocketMoms Help for Haiti lens created by HappyNutritionist has collected 76 donated lenses so far! Keep ‘em coming!
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And Skiesgreen would love for you to take a look at a fun and informational new lens she created called Waltzing Matilda – Aussies National Song. A song that almost made it to be the Austrailian National Anthem.

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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!