Mission: Possible - Becoming a Giant Squid in 2009

ONE: Get to Know the Giant Squid Greeters 

Meet The Giant Squid Greeters

Very simply, Giant Squid Greeters are here to help! A Giant Squid Greeter is a cheerleader and a go between for The Giant Squids on Squidoo. The Greeters will also be on the look out for talented lensmasters who'd like to join the ranks of Giant Squ...

TWO: Get to Know the Giant Squid Community Organizers 

Leave Guestbook Comments on Their Lenses

Giant Squid Organizer: Bonnie

Do you aspire for greatness? Are you a stellar lensmaster? Do you want to be a part of the coolest group on Squidoo? If you answered yes to any of these questions then we've got a group for you! Learn what it takes to join the ranks of the Giant Squ...

Giant Squid Community Organizer

Whether you are new to Giant Squidom, an old pro, or a Giant Squid Hopeful, I'm here to help! I'm RMS (aka Robin) and I'm proud to be a part of a wonderful team of lensmasters, the Giant Squid Community Organizers. Please feel free to use this lens...

THREE: Get to Know the Citizen Squid Mentors 

Links to All of the Mentor Lenses are Available Here!

The Citizen Squid Mentors

Where can you help an awesome Web 2.0 company move forward, test unreleased features, and get hints from the masters on how to be great? Why as a Citizen Squid of course! Citizen Squids started as a panel of volunteer lensmasters, who in exchange f...

Lenses by Kimberly Dawn Wells 

Squidoo's Community Organizer

How to Run a Successful CafePress Shop (and make lots of money!)

CafePress is THE online place to become your very own entrepreneur quickly and easily.  All you need is a computer, Internet connection, and a graphics program, and you are on your way to making major money!  Get all the CafePress goodness...

FAQ: Payment Settings and Commissions

Are you confused about commissions? Experiencing donation snafus? Here are the most frequently asked questions about money and earnings on Squidoo. If you were directed here by Tisha, our awesome bug sorter outer, and you still weren't able to find...

Lens Promotion FAQ

SEO and promotion is a biiiiig topic among lensmasters. This lens won't answer all your questions about where and how, but it will answer some basic questions about policies and procedures, as well as the most frequently asked questions about search...

Do Squidoo: A much requested guide to creating a successful Squidoo lens

Are you seeking information on how to use Squidoo effectively?  Excellent, because this lens is made just for you! Find the answers to:  - How do I do ...? - Why won't ... work? - How can I ...? - Why do you ...? - Where is the ...? Finally d...

FIVE: Visit the Squidoo Answer Deck 

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The Donations Module

Squidoo now has a way for you and your fans to donate to your favorite Squidoo Charity right on the lens with the Donations Module! This is a great idea if you are holding fund raising drive. Just build a lens and e-mail it to the people who want to...

Advanced HTML for Squidoo

The techniques shown here aren't much more advanced then what's in the Basic HTML tutorial. The code being used isn't any more special. But the results and presentation can appear to be more sophisticated. Hence it being the Advanced HTML tutorial. F...

Basic HTML for Squidoo

Before you start reading all this, you may want to open Advanced HTML in a new tab, because you'll be wanting to check it out as soon as you've finished this! You can use basic HTML in a few of the lens modules. Mostly used to create hyperlinks (the...

Add Borders to Your Lens Photos on Squidoo

Would you like to jazz up the photos on your lenses? You can use borders on your images to give them much more impact and to help them "pop." You just need to use a little bit of simple HTML magic. I have included easy instructions for a variety of...

Are You a Squidoo Nobody? How to Become a Squidoo Somebody in 6 Easy Lessons

Who is this little orange guy? That's what everyone wants to know! So, why are you leaving us in the dark? "This is my bio. I can edit it later." Well, little orange guy, later has arrived. The time is now! Come out from behind your orange anonymity...

SIX: Visit the Giant Squid Community Showcase 

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The Giant Squid Community Showcase

The Giant Squid Community Showcase blog features the best lenses made by Squidoo's Giant Squids along with tips, lens ideas and useful information for the entire Squidoo community of lensmasters. This lens is the home of the Choose Your Favorite Gia...

#1 Topic Lenses 

Karen's Thomas Kinkade Art Store

Welcome to my Thomas Kinkade Art Store Lens. I am the #1 Thomas Kinkade Artwork Collector in the World with 192 Thomas Kinkade paintings. I am the proud owner of several Kinkade originals in my private collection and can advise you from a Collector&#...

All Things Simpsons - Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, plus more

The Simpsons are a national icon of animated humor (in my opinion) and allow us to poke fun at ourselves through their satire, social commentary, and just plain silly humor. All your favorites are here; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and all the rest! In...

How to Reuse Paper Rolls

Before you throw away a paper roll, do you consider what it can be used for? Never thought of that? Or you already reuse them? Although our society urges people not to throw out but recycle and reuse as many common household items as possible, we st...

Al Capone

Al Capone ruled Chicago's underworld of crime during the 1920s. His gang controlled the city's gambling, prostitution, and illegal liquor activities. After defeating several murder charges, Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and spent eight y...

Pendleton - Old Photos

Most of these old photographs of Pendleton SC date to the early 1900's. How did I get these photos? Well, that is a good story. One day Frank Crenshaw showed me these photos and I asked him if I could get copies made. He told me that Mr. Norton...

A Selection of Lenses of the Day 

Halloween Potluck Party Ideas

Children favorite holidays are Saint Nicholas or Xmas, by reason of the gifts; they love Carnival because they're allowed to wear fancy clothes, enjoy parties and parades and they also love Halloween. Why do children enjoy Halloween? Adults con...

100 Things I'm Thankful For

Lensmaster LittleIsMore (aka Claudette Mitchell) started a thread in the SquidU forums titled, "What are you thankful for?"  She wrote:   Although I knew how important it was to be thankful, I only learned a few years ago the sign...

The Twilight Saga Review | Read In-Depth Reviews Of The Books And Film

Following the recent hype surrounding The Twilight Saga, I decided the time was ripe to give my honest opinions of the books and film. Here you will find an in-depth review of every book, a review of the film, and constantly updated news about the u...

Halloween Stories

Although horror novels are general appropriate reading for the Halloween season, there is a certain type of horror novel that seems especially suited for the season. Even though it's not considered a subgenre of horror, I do collect and classify...

Copyright Infringement

Know Your Copyrights If you've had your work stolen, copied or 'borrowed' there are usually steps that can be taken to protect your work, although some legal avenues can be expensive. However, your work illegally posted by someo...

Squidoo Co-Branding 

This Lens by bdkz Explains Everything!

Squidoo Co-Branding

Squidoo Co-Branding is taking an already successful format and marketing it into different brands. Like SquidBids, SquidVids and SquidWho. Here is a list that I compiled for you to wade through the Co-Branding waters! Squidoo also uses the term "Fro...

TEN: Tap Into Squidoo HQ 

Corey Brown

Hi, I'm Corey I'm one of the guys on the Squidoo team, and here's my story... (for more frequent updates, follow me on Twitter or check out coreyweb) P.S. Don't forget to say hi!

How We Engineered Squidoo

Founded in mid 2005, Squidoo launched in early 2006 and quickly gained traction as a platform for sharing ideas online. On Squidoo, everyday experts (yes, that means you) can handcraft individual web pages (just to be difficult, we call them lenses)...

Megan Casey Squidoo Editor-in-Chief

One of Squidoo's Founding Members "Before joining the founding Squidoo team Megan spent 6 years in book publishing, most recently at the Portfolio business books imprint of Penguin Group, USA. There she developed pioneering marketing and technology...

The Squidoo King

You know, I was actually just thinking about Seth Godin the other day.  No fooling, really!!!  You see, I realize he's the mastermind behind Squidoo.  But, I was just thinking about how curious it is that I've been bitten by...

Lenses by Squidoo Editor-in-Chief Megan Casey 

THE GIANT SQUIDS (and how you can become one)

No, it's not a rock group (but it might as well be). It's the core group of movers and shakers at Squidoo. It's a gathering of influentials, the most dedicated lensmakers on Squidoo. Here's how this whole thing started. One day at Sq...

6 ways to improve your lens, right now!

You've already done the hard part. You've had a big idea, something you want to talk about or share on your lens, and you got started. Way to go. So, this lens is about what comes next. It's a quick, 30 second overview of just a handful of easy thin...

49 Ideas For Awesome Lenses

...or 10 or 100! It's pretty easy, non-techy, and of course, free. Right? Right. Sure, to make your lens a real knockout it takes some time, but chances are you've already learned the basics and are looking to do more. Congrats. That's the best pl...

SquidDon't!

It's simple: given our pedigree, our point of view and our dyed-in-the-wool, we-will-never-change-our-mind conviction on this issue, spam is not okay at Squidoo. This page outlines our thinking on the issue. It supplements our terms of service. Don'...

Lenses by Squidoo Founder Seth Godin 

Pssst! He even has his own action figure!

The free guidebook to Squidoo: Calamari!

But, on the other hand, perhaps you'd like a complete guidebook, the sort of guidebook published by Wiley, the sort that sold a million (a million!) copies just on eBay. Well, we didn't want to wait for a 'real' book, so we wrote a free one. You can...

How to Use Squidoo to Raise Money (and engage your volunteers)

Squidoo is a free web platform that makes it easy for you (or your donors or anyone who supports your cause) to earn money, day after day, by building useful web pages. This page will explain how it works and how to get started. Our current Squidoo...

The 9 Free Things Every Site (or Lens!) Should Do

Rule #1: If you have a site or Squidoo lens, you want more traffic. Rule #2: You don't have enough money to buy as much traffic as you need. Rule #3: You've already made your site/lens as compelling as you know how to. So, what now? Read on for the (...

Tribes

This page gives you links and information about my new book, Tribes. Already an Amazon bestseller, the book is short and small and simple. It argues, as clearly as I am capable, that leadership is the best marketing tactic to any organization--a com...

GSOs and Greeters Past and Present 

by a_willow

Giant Squid Organizers and Greeters - Past and Present

This is the place where I've tried to collect all the facts and links for all the projects run by Giant Squid Organizers and Greeters in the past. And, in a way, this lens is my own way to say thank you to those who helped me on my own way to bec...