Today we’re turning the Spotlight on one of our newest members of the Top 100 Club, Spirituality.

Spirituality shares the story behind her newest and one of her most favorite lenses and also tells us what she does directly after publishing a new lens to help insure its success.

What is the very first thing you do AFTER you’ve published a new lens?   What is the second thing you do?   And  why?

The first thing I do is check out how the lens looks.   Are the modules in the right order? Do I spot any grammar mistakes?  Have I done all the things I want to do on a lens?  I usually see things I feel need to be done on the lens, so I go back to edit mode and keep on working on it.  I usually do this several times, but for the sake of this question let’s move on to what happens next:

While on some lenses I research keywords  BEFORE I make them, I usually end up filling in the tags only AFTER I’ve published the lens.  This isn’t what I’d advise (if you put it last, you will probably forget, unless you’re as obsessed as I am).  It’s just that tags aren’t on my top list.  I focus on content first, tags second. But after some time has passed and the creative fires are no longer burning I will put in tags.  I check related lenses for the keywords they use – as well as put in the obvious ones related to the topic.

The third thing I do is make get links to and from this lens.  This is to make sure that google finds my lens as soon as possible. I have a link plexo for all my lenses that are less than a month old. This is also a great help when the time comes for me to send out my monthly spiritual newsletter.

I feature all my new spiritual lenses on my spiritual lensography  as well as give any new lenses a permanent place on one (or sometimes more) of my lensographies.

If I have lenses related to the new one, I will make sure they get listed on the new lens in a featured lenses module. I will also put the lens in similar modules on those lenses. And of course I make sure the new lens links out to one or more of my lensographies (related ones first, obviously). I have 13 lensographies to choose from – so finding two or three (or five) is not a problem.

Please share the story behind one of your NEWEST lenses.

I got my new camera for my birthday in May 2008.   Just for fun (and hey, who knows some sales) I posted the amazon link to that precise camera on my lensography.  One day I noticed that the lensography was being found for Casio Exilim Tips… Well – not one to pass over an opportunity, I decided to make a lens about that.  So here’s my Casio Exilim Camera Tips  lens.

Not that I have sold any camera’s yet :)   But adding some pictures to it because a reader thought there should be some was sure fun.  It’s really a very easy camera to use, so who needs tips? 

Tell us about one of your favorite lenses.

I’m into spirituality in a big way, as anyone who has seen my collection of lenses will know. What I particularly like is religious debate and squidoo has a great platform for debate: the Hey Monkebrain platform.  I’ve made several debating lenses in the religious niche. Most of them based on classic philosophical questions we had to think about in philosophy class in college (I studied World Religions there).
At some point I noticed that I had made enough such lenses to create a lensography for them. I made ‘The Ultimate Questions – religion and spirituality’ . It’s a rather novel (I think) combination of ultimate questions posed in duel modules and featured lenses.  Not just my own, but other people’s as well where they fit.

I really think it’s one of my most original spiritual lenses.