Blessed - April 2009

You'll notice a sort of Easter theme going on here today. From Faberge to Jesus to Spring dresses and even pastel colored egg shaped cars!

Today, I'm stuck in bed with a fever, but have got my computer in bed with me. Of course the advantage of that is I have all day to spend blessing lenses! I plan on doing more today than would be usual. We got sort of a theme going on here today, not sure what you'd call it: Lenses that are trying to make this world a better place, maybe, or something to that effect.

Most of these I found off my NewsFeed on FaceBook, thanks to Squidoo Connect, so they've just been freshly updated, and/or newly made, so stop by and check them out.

Felling better than I felt yesterday, so I'll be heading out and not being online much today, so probably a shorter list today.

Well, I guess this is going to be a pretty big lens. I'm only 3 days in and already I've blessed more than 100 lenses. I did not expect to do that. I was thinking maybe 10 or 12 a day, not 30 or 40 a day! I just can't help it. There are so many great lenses out there! I love finding them!

Oh, I'm doing a bit of personal research on the internet today, (part of my continuing goal to move me and my 14 cats, 40+ chickens, and 2 Ranchu to France) and I guess that effected the lenses I found today too, because looking at today's list, I just realized I blessed several lenses on the topic of traveling overseas.

I wasn't online on the 10th, because I wasn't home all day, so I didn't get anything done online at all yesterday, including not getting any Angel work done. :( Oh well, I guess I made up for that on the 8th anyways. ;P

HAPPY EASTER!

Today, being the 13th, which is my favorite number, I'm going to do something a little different. Instead of my regular 6 categories that I use each day, I'm going to use the 27 categories Squidoo is displaying on their home page and bless five lenses from each.

Why? Because, for one thing, I fear I am missing many good lenses, by not branching out into all of Squidoo's many categories, and I want to be sure I bless all the best lenses on Squidoo, not just the best of a few categories. Secondly, Squidoo, just introduced a new home page, and it's now easier than ever to locate the best lenses from each category.

Once again, I found many of these lenses via Squidoo Connect on FaceBook. Don't you just love FaceBook apps!

Just a quick explanation of what I did here. Personally, I think Animals & Nature should be separated into two separate categories, one for animals and one for nature. Don't you? Well, because it's so confusing seeing gardens listed under animals, I decided to separate the one category and treat it like it was two categories.

NOTE: All the ones marked as "April 13, 2009" are actually April 13 - 18, 2009, because that's how long it took me to get around to visiting 5 lenses each from each of all the categories on Squidoo --- which is well over 100 lenses!

Okay, another note: I'm taking the date system off, and switching to a category system instead, because I think categories are easier to search through than dates, when you want to find a certain lens or type of lens. So, the "April 13, 2009", dates are leaving the headings below.

A quick run down of things:

I find a lot of lenses via FaceBook's Squidoo Connect, so if you want me to see your lens, the best thing to do is just create great lenses and be sure to send a ping to FaceBook after updating it.

The tags you use are very important. I do a lot of searching, both on Squidoo's search box and on Google. If you are using a tag that is the same as the keyword I searched for, than I'll find your lens. I also find lots of lenses via the "explore related lenses" feature on my own lenses. Your lens will only show up in that box, if you put tags on your lens. Your lens needs tags to show up in the search result on both Squidoo and Google. I can't find your lens if there are no tags on it, so be certain to tag you lens!

I also find a lot of lenses by reading lensographies. I list lensographies as I find them, on The Lensography Index, so that I have a way to get back to them again. If you have a lensography and I haven't added it to the index yet, just let me know.

Every time you create a new lens, the Angels get an email telling them there's a new lens out there. Each new lens gets sent out to the Angels, depending on what category the Angel is in charge of. Several of the lenses I've featured here, were blessed only minutes/hours after they were created, as a result, and a few of them were created by brand new lensmasters. So keep making new lenses.

I wrote a very long and detailed lens about what I look for in lenses to bless -- will probably take you an hour or more to read -- but basically it boils done to this:

># Love your topic.
># Write what you know.
># Change default module titles.
># Add pictures.
># Fill out your lensmaster profile information.
># Make sure your sales modules and affiliate banners are on-topic to your lens subject
># Spell to the best of your ability, but don't worry too much about it
># Have something you want to say and say it.
># Ask yourself: Who is my reader and what do I want to tell them?
># Keep updating and improving