The Giant Squid Community Organizers Are Here to Help You
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 as a sounding board for your ideas, a place to come for helpful tips, and a place to be heard by me and the rest of the Giant Squid Community Organizers.
What You'll Find Here
- Who We Are
- What is a Giant Squid?
- Welcome Giants and Giants Fans
- Giant Squid Blog Roll
- Ask a Giant
- Got Giant Questions?
- Giant Squid Answers
- Got a Suggestion?
- Suggestion Box
- Calling All Future Giants
- Interested in Becoming a Giant Squid?
- I'm also the Squid Citizen Giant Lensmaster Mentor
- The Giant Squid Community Showcase
- Today's Giant Features
- Feedback and Guestbook
- About the Author
Who We Are
Bdkz, Gypsypirate and I are your team of Giant Squid Community Organizers.We're here to help you!
Visit our lensographies to learn more about us.
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Who The Heck Is bdkz?
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Who is bdkz? That's a tough question to answer but here's a start! I'm a Giant Squid Organizer, Head RocketMom and a Squid Angel. I have created over 400 lenses, been "Lens of the Day" twice and have had 15 of my lens in the Top 100. I have also sna...
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Lenses by rms
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Hi. I'm rms and this is a lens about me and my lenses! My real name is Robin and I grew up and spent most of my life on Long Island. (That explains the accent.) I was, up until recently, the contributing editor of both Fresh Cooking From Your Ga...
What is a Giant Squid?
Guidelines
For a good idea of what we are looking for when we choose Giant Squid lensmasters please read this lens.-
THE GIANT SQUIDS (and how you can become one)
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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...

Welcome Giants and Giants Fans
Giant Squid Blog Roll
If you are a Giant Squid who blogs about Squidoo, please add your blog here and I'll post it at the Giant Squid Community Showcase.
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Squidoo News Magazine | Blog Index | Lensmaster Resources
The SquidLog serves as a central news hub for all more...4 points
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Squidbits - Greekgeek's Squidoo Blog
Squidoo tips for lensmasters.3 points
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AJ is Always Juggling
Always Juggling on Squidoo3 points
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Cabaret Squidoo — The Most Fun You’ll Ever Have with Recipes
The Most Fun You'll Ever Have With Recipes2 points
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Jaguar Julie :: Blog On!
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A Lens a Day
Each day (well, maybe a few times a week) I featur more...2 points
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Religion and Spirituality lenses (and more)
Personal blog of Christo Rufinus. Free wordpress t more...2 points
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The Book Garden's Squidoo Playground
Just blogging about squidoo stuff!2 points
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Feral SquidÂ
Through a lens darkly2 points
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ExSquidition Travel Journal
Touring Squidoo's best travel themed lenses.2 points
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The Party Animal’s Squidoo Blog
The Party Animal's Squidoo Blog2 points
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Culinary Favorites From A to Z
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Squiddicted
A Squiddicted Lensmaster Answering Common Squidoo more...2 points
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Topicability
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So You Want To Be A Giant Squid?
A blog for mentoring the next generation of Giant more...1 point
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Howling Squid Review
Howl your way to the bank with Squidoo.1 point
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Lens Author~ Looking at the World Through My Lens
A blog about writing and my Squidoo, Squid Mentori more...1 point
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Your Girl Friday
Doin' my thing and sharin' some stuff :)1 point
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20th Century Geek Grrl
Do you Squidoo? I do - I'm Pastiche, a Squidoo len more...1 point
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Squidalogue Promotion
Trying out different ideas of promotion and market more...1 point
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Giving Squids a Helping Hand
A blog designed to help promote poorly ranked lens more...1 point
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Nan's Squidoo Spotlight
I have been writing about cooking with recipes, Pa more...1 point
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Ohme, Oh My!
Ohme, Oh My! is where I blog about my Squidoo lens more...1 point
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http://phiz.squidtop.com
Kate Phizackerley's Squidoo Diary1 point
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Squidoo Lens Reviews
Blogging about remarkable lenses and lensmasters.1 point
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Premium Wordpress Themes
Best Premium Themes for your blog from premiumthem more...1 point
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Howling Squid Review
Howl your way to the bank with Squidoo.0 points
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Squidoo News is all about Squidoo
Squidoo News, lens reviews, and opinions. Featured more...0 points
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Godchild Gifts
There is a special bond between a godchild and god more...0 points
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http://www.squidinkpot.com
A Community of Squidoo Lenses and Lensmasters.0 points
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Squidtastic!
Things to celebrate on Squidoo.0 points

Ask a Giant
Got Giant Questions?
Get Giant Answers
Please feel free to post your questions here and I'll do my best to answer them as quickly as possible.
Photo appears courtesy of prettytypewriters and was found through a creative commons search.
Rating Question
It took me awhile, but after accidently bumping on more...0 points
Giant Squid Answers
Answers to Your Plexo Questions
It took me awhile, but after accidently bumping one of my lenses by mistake, I discovered I could rate my lens. Quite frankly, it is not, nor ever has been, my practice to rate or vote for myself for anything. In a lot of venues, people are expected to rate their own work. Is this the case with rating one's lens? What is squid protocol concerning this? If it is expected, I would only want to do what is right.
Answer: The way the star rating system is set up, you should not be able to rate your own lenses. If you are able to rate your lenses, it would mean you have a bug.

Got a Suggestion?
Suggestion Box
We are on the lookout for any great ideas you might have. Please leave your suggestions here.
Photo appears courtesy of jrthoms and was found through a creative commons search.
Bring Back the Jamboree
I for one really thought Seth's summer jamboree he more...2 points
Alphabetize Group Listings
It would be so much easier to locate a specific gr more...2 points
Transferrable Modules
I would love to have modules that could be transfe more...2 points
help making lens series
I'd like a feature to "copy this lens's layou more...1 point
Automatic entry into search engines
It's great being able to twitter when publishing a more...1 point
Format Toolbar for Text Mods
After giving much thought about this, some sort of more...1 point
Feed for Top Lenses in a Group
I would really like a feed for the top rated 20, 5 more...1 point
Update The Joy of Squidoo
This recipe book is fantastic - it shows Lensmaste more...0 points
A module that tells about Squidoo for non squidoo readers
The module would explain what a lens is and tell h more...0 points
In addition to the character count it would be great to have a word count as well.
You can use this java script to do so.
<form m more...0 points

Calling All Future Giants
Interested in Becoming a Giant Squid?
Photo appears courtesy of jurvetson and was found through a creative commons search.
- So You Want To Be A Giant Squid?
- A blog for mentoring the next generation of Giant Squids
- FeedBurner Email Subscription
- Sign up for an email subscription to So You Want to Be a Giant Squid
I'm also the Squid Citizen Giant Lensmaster Mentor
Visit this lens if you have any questions about becoming a Giant Squid, to learn about all of the great Giant Squid perks and to learn more about the fabulous Giant Squid lensmaster program.-
Giant Squid Mentor
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It's true. Squidoo is a great place to create web pages for free. But did you know that part of the magic of Squidoo also comes from the membership? Since Squidoo started in the fall of 2006, our lensmasters have continued to create great lenses and...
The Giant Squid Community Showcase
Blog featuring Lenses Made By The Giant Squid Lensmasters.
Find tips, ideas, advice, and inspiration!
Today's Giant Features
These lenses are now being featured at the Giant Squid Community Showcase. Is one of them yours?
If you are a Giant Squid please visit today to learn how to get your best lenses featured.
Not a Giant yet? Visit anyway! These lenses will knock your socks off.
Check Them Out
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byFeedback and Guestbook
Please leave any other thoughts here:.
If you need a bit more personal attention, please feel free to email me through the (contact me) link above.
If you have a blog where you talk about Squidoo or your lenses, please leave me the link and I'll add it to the Giant Squid Community Showcase.
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- thesuccess thesuccess Dec 8, 2009 @ 8:33 am
- Just came here to thank Robin (rms) for all her encouragement and good work!
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Nov 22, 2009 @ 3:41 pm
- A blessing and thank you!
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- prosperity66 prosperity66 Nov 1, 2009 @ 7:43 am
- Just hope this time would be the good one... as I don't build lenses like a silver bullet :)
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- Heather426 Heather426 Oct 24, 2009 @ 2:54 pm
- great job on the lens and thanks for all your hard work!
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- GrowWear GrowWear Oct 17, 2009 @ 2:30 pm
- Thank you GSOs!
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- HorseAndPony HorseAndPony Oct 5, 2009 @ 1:04 pm
- You have set up a great program for those who want to be a Giant Squid. Everyone is so helpful. I am so happy that I joined. Thank you.
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- Spook Spook Sep 8, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
- It took me a while to find this as is so often the case with me. I prefer to keep quiet but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate you people. I really do, and I mean that.
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- Laniann Laniann Sep 2, 2009 @ 11:43 am
- It's amazing all the work You and the other Giant Squid Organizers are able to do. Thank you, for all your time and help - it is greatly appreciated.
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- OhMe OhMe Sep 1, 2009 @ 2:53 am
- You are amazing and I sure appreciate all the work you do on Squidoo. I loved receiving a purple star this past weekend and it really meant a lot to me. Thank you.
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- genglo genglo May 15, 2009 @ 10:16 am
- Thanks for all your hard work and I'm so honored to have received a purple star for our rescue!
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- hlkljgk hlkljgk May 1, 2009 @ 12:46 pm
- thanks for the info. love the images. :)
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- Pastiche Pastiche May 1, 2009 @ 7:43 am
- I like the suggestion box and hope it gets some review by development staff. I'd like an easy way to communicate to all my group members at once within a single group but not to all my fans. If there's any way to do that with a group squid cast feature I can't seem to find it (hey, I'm old ... a senior geek giant squid ...)
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- clouda9 clouda9 Apr 24, 2009 @ 1:05 am
- I love suggestions and checking out what others are doing.Super lens share.
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- Wbisbill Wbisbill Apr 23, 2009 @ 9:48 am
- Great info -favorited and bookmarked!
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- spirituality spirituality Apr 22, 2009 @ 12:58 pm
- I'm pretty content with the features squidoo has actually. Managing groups is a chore though - I don't get why we need a greasemonkeyscript to get an edit button on a group page. Specific giant features? I'd rather see some of the existing things being done better - like really featuring all the LOTD lenses on the LOTD blog.
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- MiaBellezza MiaBellezza Apr 21, 2009 @ 11:07 am
- Love the Suggestion Box idea and nice lens!
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- charlino charlino Apr 17, 2009 @ 10:48 pm
- It took me a couple of days worth of thought, but have provided input into the suggestion box and Giant Questions. This is a very well made lens. Thank you for sharing.
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- Jimmie Jimmie Apr 16, 2009 @ 8:31 pm
- I thought your existing suggestions are pretty good, so I voted some of them up! And I added another about making series.
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen Apr 16, 2009 @ 4:01 pm
- I blog and I write about my lenses and other that I've come across on a regular bases but The Bumpy Road is about the ups and downs of everyday life.
Great lens.
I have some ideas forming in the back of my brain. Once I figure them out, I'll be back.
Lizzy
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- rms rms Apr 16, 2009 @ 11:32 am
- I'll be updating the blog again over the weekend with all the new links I've gotten lately.
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- EuroSquid EuroSquid Apr 16, 2009 @ 11:03 am
- Hi Robin:
You wrote "If you have a blog where you talk about Squidoo or your lenses, please leave me the link and I'll add it to the Giant Squid Community Showcase."
Is http://valleyofthegiants.blogspot.com/ in the Giant Squid Community Showcase? I do not see it there.
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- JJNW JJNW Apr 9, 2009 @ 11:45 pm
- Hi Robin! Thanks for the Congrats on my becoming a GIANT SQUID at last! I am thrilled silly and SO glad and honored to be swimming with the big kids! Thanks for the support!!
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- MikeMac MikeMac Apr 6, 2009 @ 12:20 am
- Great info. Thanks for efforts in putting this together. Very helpful
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- kiwisoutback kiwisoutback Jan 6, 2009 @ 8:54 am
- Great work! I might be working on a blog in '09 featuring Squidoo lenses/talking about Squidoo. I'll keep you posted on what comes up. In the meantime, I'm lensrolling this to my Giant Squid Mentor lens.
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- awelldressedbullet awelldressedbullet Dec 18, 2008 @ 6:27 am
- Robin! I wanted to drop by and wish you a wonderful holiday season and health, happiness and prosperity for 2009. Thank you for all the time, effort and hard work you so generously give us on Squidoo! - Kathy aka "Pretty Bullet"
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- blue22d blue22d Nov 24, 2008 @ 2:15 pm
- Great lens. I have set my date to become a Giant; March 31, 2009. It will be my year anniversity at Squidoo and I am going for it. I have set up a Sandy's Lens so that my family and friends can find my lenses easily. I hope you will stop by and let me know what you thank. Five stars and a lensroll to you. Good squiden!
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- S-Ahsan S-Ahsan Sep 16, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
- great stuff indeed
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- S-Ahsan S-Ahsan Sep 16, 2008 @ 5:41 pm
- thanks for the info! your lenses are worth reading! hope it helps :D
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- Margo_Arrowsmith Margo_Arrowsmith Sep 6, 2008 @ 6:35 pm
- I love the photos!
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- Home-healthcare Home-healthcare Jul 2, 2008 @ 10:18 am
- Hey Robin! This is awesome, and the rest of us really appreciate all the help you and the other Giants are giving us. Appreciate your following me on Twitter, too (MargHamp) and tried to follow you (_rms), but Twitter is cutting up again. Wanted to know, though- How do you get the notices of Squidoo page updates to post as tweets? Cool! Thanks, Margaret
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Jun 27, 2008 @ 1:06 pm
- Hey Robin! Who designed that cool logo in your intro module? Gosh, they should have participated in my logo design contest! Well, just dropped by to see what you are up to and say HI. Girl Power!
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- JohannTheDog JohannTheDog May 24, 2008 @ 6:40 am
- What a great job all of your are doing for the Giants! Thank you for your hard work...Woofs, Johann
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- KimGiancaterino KimGiancaterino May 15, 2008 @ 11:40 am
- Ah, I love the suggestion box! You and the other Giant Squid organizers are doing a fabulous job. Thanks very much for your hard work and fine example.
About the Author
Lensmaster rms has been a member since May 8 2007, has rated 5,960 lenses, favorited 1,020, and has created 303 lenses from scratch. This member's top-ranked page is "Best Panini Sandwich Recipes". See all my lenses
My Bio
I'm Robin. I'm an affiliate marketer and one of Squidoo.com's Giant Squid Community Organizers and the Squid Citizen, Giant Squid Mentor which means I'm ready, willing and able to answer any and all questions about the elite group of Squidoo writers known as the Giant Squid Lensmasters.
I write The Giant Squid Community Showcase, where the Giant Organizers feature, the best and most helpful lenses made by the Giant Squids.
I also enjoy cooking and finding new recipes. If you're like me be sure to check out my Cabaret Squidoo Best Recipe Blog where I feature the best recipes from the pages of Squidoo.






