Squidoo

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Catalysthere Squidoo

This lens was added on 5th August 2007 as part of my participation in the Thirty Day Challenge.

Please feel free to take a look around and rate this lens-Thank you.

Contents at a Glance

Operation Ebook!!
My Squidoo Link
Potted History of Squidoo

Great Stuff on Amazon
Lensmasters on Squidoo......
New Flickr Photos

more...

Operation Ebook!!

My Squidoo Link

MySquidoo.com: This link goes to my Squidoo Website-also set up on 5th August 2007.

Potted History of Squidoo

Squidoo is a huge Co-Operative social network which was launched in October 2005, and came out of beta testing in March 2006.
It is a free platform designed to make it easy for anyone to set up a single page on a topic you know or care a lot about.
Squidoo is a network of user-generated lenses which are single pages that highlight one person's point of view, recommendations, or expertise, Gripes or obsessions.
Lenses can be about anything, ideas, people or places, hobbies and sports, pets or products, philosophy, and politics.
Lenses aren't primarily intended to hold content; more emphasis is placed on recommending and then pointing to content on the web.
Annotation, organization and personalization deliver context and meaning.

Great Stuff on Amazon

The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly

by: David Meerman Scott

Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 01/01/2010)

Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business

by: Jay Conrad Levinson

Amazon Price: $9.72 (as of 01/01/2010)

Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking, Revised Edition

by: Andy Sernovitz

Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 01/01/2010)

Duct Tape Marketing: The World's Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide

by: John Jantsch

Amazon Price: $10.19 (as of 01/01/2010)

Marketing

by: Roger Kerin, Steven Hartley, William Rudelius

Amazon Price: $161.59 (as of 01/01/2010)

Lensmasters on Squidoo......

Users who create lenses are called lensmasters. A lensmaster uses the tools available online to provide links, feeds, abstracts, and lists to users who are trying to make sense of a topic.
For example, a single lens could point to Flickr photos, Google maps, blogs, eBay auctions, YouTube videos, and other links. Lensmasters are encouraged to promote personal agendas, expertise, causes, products and opinions.

Squidoo splits its revenue with its "co-op" of lensmasters, 5% goes straight to charity, then 50% goes to the lensmasters, Next, 45% goes to Squidoo. The site is estimating that nearly half of all the lensmasters on the site are donating their royalties to any of 45 featured charities, ranging from NPR and The American Heart Association to smaller organizations like Chimp Haven and Planet Gumbo.

Squidoo was founded by author, speaker, and Demi-God/blogger Seth Godin. On Godin's founding team was his book editor Megan Casey, Fast Company employee Heath Row, Corey Brown, and Gil Hildebrand, Jr.

According to Alexa, Squidoo's traffic has grown more than 40% monthly beginning in the spring of 2007. It is now in the top 500 of all websites tracked worldwide.