Stay Organized with a Calendar for Your Future SquidCasts
Plan your SquidCasts in advance on a calendar and let your SquidCast Calendar remind you of when to send a SquidCast for a particular lens.
You can also use this calendar to remember when to tweet about a lens. Toss in a hashtag and you're on your way to traffic.
What is a SquidCast Calendar?
The premise is simple, whenever you make a lens, add a few dates to your calendar - dates upon which it would be appropriate to make a SquidCast.After you have made an amazing SquidWho lens, you may forget about their birthday, or the anniversary of an important date in their life, but they are great days to SquidCast that lens. With a SquidCast calendar, you'll remember.
What is a SquidCast?
- Squidoo : Squidcasts
- Everything you wanted to know about Squidcasts but were afraid to ask.
- Squidcasting - how to squidcast on squidoo
- Squidcasting is THE way to let people within squidoo know your new lens exists.You can use it in all kinds of ways - but how do you do it without annoying people?
Calendar Programs
To Maintain Your Squidcast Calendar
There are several ways to keep a Squidcast Calendar. Find what works best for you and go with it.There are calendar programs set up that you can use to easily organize your future squidcast topics like Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, or Yahoo Calendar. These can actually send you a reminder to send a squidcast!
You could also create a calendar in Word. A running list, in order by date, works just fine too. Some people even prefer the good old fashioned handwritten calendar or day planner. Whatever floats your boat.
How you keep your calendar is just a matter of preference and convenience, so find your groove and go with it.
Lensmaster Poll
You Might Be Surprised There's A Holiday
Everyday is a Holiday
If you have a lens, you can probably bet that there is some relative day, week, or month, to celebrate it or raise awareness. Browse through the lists, and add to your calendar relative holidays and the lens they coorespond with (so you don't forget why you put Maple Syrup Day on the calendar!).
- HOLIDAYS (Official) 2008
- Up-to-date, accurate, validated + fun, serious and traditional holidays, theme days, awarenes observances in the US + Moon Phases.
- Bizarre and Unique Holidays
- There is a wealth of bizarre holidays, wacky holidays, obscure holidays, and otherwise special days.
- Holidays on the Net
- Holiday Celebrations, Holiday Travel, Holiday Traditions, Recipes, Crafts, eGreeting Cards
Sneek Peak at Some of My SquidCast Calendar
(2008)
These are just a few things I have on my SquidCast Calendar, so you can to get an idea for how simple and handy a list like this can be. I added these items to my SquidCast Calendar the day I published the corresponding lens. With this little list, I can remember to come back to it on this date. Without a calendar, it is possible (more like probable) that I will miss days that could create interest in an otherwise stagnant lens.Squidcasts based on important dates are a great way to breathe life back into a lens that has fallen by the wayside. Perhaps you haven't done much on it lately, but with a reminder you have a reason to update it and squidcast it.
January 27 - Happy Birthday Lego - Lego Art
February - Black History Month - Strange Fruit
February 14 - Valentine's Day - Movie Kisses
April - National Donate Life Month - Opt-Out Organ Donation
April 5 - Palm Sunday - Folding Palm Crosses
May 6 - Nurses Day - Stylish Scrubs
May 26 - Memorial Day - Arlingtion National Cemetery
July 4 - Independence Day - Uncle Sam
August 16 - Elvis Birthday - Elvis Impersonators
August 26 - La Tomatina 2009 - La Tomatina
September - Back to School - Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
October 23 - Mole Day - Celebrating Mole Day
November 13 - Friday the 13th - Triskaidekaphobia
November 23 - Christmas Season Kicking Off - NY Yankees Christmas
December 10 - Dickinson's B-Day - Emily Dickinson
How To Use Google Calendar
How to use Google Calendar
Here are some tips and tricks on using Google Calendar Quickly! Learning Objectives How to select a calendar for viewing. How to add events to a calendar. How to delete events. How to invite people to events. How to share a calendar ...and How to accept an invite to a shared calendar.
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Items to Add to Your Squidcast Calendar
Squidoo Anniversaries
Day I joined, Day I made Giant Squid, Day I made G more...0 points
50 Ways To Use Squidcasting
One of our Giant Squid Organizers bdkz has put together a great list of ways to use squidcasts.-
50 Ways To Use Squidcasting
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What the heck is Squidcasting? No it's not fishing for Squid! It's the awesome new interactive tool from the Squidoo HQ team. In a nutshell Squidcasting allows you to interact and react with your fans and fellow Squids. Check out my 50 Ways to Use Sq...
The Possibilities are Endless
Ideas for Adding to Your SquidCasting Calendar
- If you have a lens on strawberries, put on the calendar the time of year it is best to plant strawberries, the time of year they are ready, and date of the California Strawberry Festival (or any other state - you don't have to actually live there, to let people know about it)
- If you have a lens on the eighties, add a few important dates to your list - like the anniversary of the day Michael Jackson's hair caught fire, or Baby Jessica fell in the well, or Ozzy bit the head off a bat. Remind them of this event, and ask them to take a walk down memory lane and remember other events of the eighties.
- If you have a local or city lens lens, be sure to add an annual event or tradition to the calendar. Add a photo or news coverage of the event, and SquidCast for the community. We may not be able to go to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, but we may like to learn about it. You may be able to get visitors who are interested in the topic of the event more than your city, and then you can introduce them to your city.
Other Squidcasting Tools
Maximizing the Squidcast
- My SquidCasts
- Enter your Lensmaster name to get all of your SquidCasts.
- Squidoo Lensmaster RSS Feeds
- Get an RSS feed of all of your Lenses on Squidoo - just enter your Lensmaster name. Feeds are available for lenses and/or groups, and include descriptions, categories and dates.
- Twitter Squidcasts
- Squidcasts broadcasted via Twitter.
Don't Forget Your Groups
Believe it or not, you can SquidCast about your groups, so don't forget to add the important dates related to your Squidoo Groups to your calendar.Learn how to squidcast groups here:
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How To SquidCast A Group
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The SquidCast is a wonderful way of getting the word out about new things happening at your lens, and it would be ideal to be able to SquidCast your groups, but this tool is not available for groups...or is it? Indeed, there IS a way to SquidCast you...
SquidCast Calendar Tips
Things to Remember When Squidcasting
- Don't overdo it. Do not squidcast the same thing over and over. Change your calendar periodically. You will cease to have fans if you are repetitive repetitive, or if you announce every time you fart.
- If you don't have anything to say, don't say anything at all. Look around, there is certainly some reason you can find to SquidCast something. Search the news, ask a question, whatever. Just make sure there is a reason you are squidcasting. Think of it as a press release (since it pretty much is one).
- You don't have to Squidcast EVERYTHING that you put on your calendar. It is a guide, not a mandate. If you squidcasted on that lens yesterday, then let it go. It will be there on the calendar next year, catch that item then.
- Don't limit yourself to the calendar. Having a calendar is no excuse to not watch the news on your issues, and to not react spontaneously to the events happening around you. Go with your gut.
My Recent Squidcasts
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Do you have any tips on keeping track of future SquidCasts? What works for you?
CCGAL wrote...
This concept can be carried over to Tweets, too - You can use the same calendar system. Where Squidcasts will only reach Squidoo registered users, Tweets have the potential of reaching a larger audience. In fact, with some of the new Twitter applications, you can even schedule your tweets up to a year in advance ... so even if you forget, you'll still tweet about your lens.
Posted June 29, 2009
2Eklectik wrote...
I never thought to do this...Thank you for this great information!!!!
Posted June 06, 2009
Tipi wrote...
Just seen your tweet on this lens. Very useful and relevant information for lenses.
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge about Squidcasting!
Susie
Posted June 06, 2009
burntchestnut wrote...
I only used SquidCasts when I created a new lens or updated one. I never knew you could SquidCast a group. Great information.
Posted February 27, 2009
CherylK wrote...
This is something I really need to do. Thanks for creating this great resource.
Posted December 26, 2008
tandemonimom wrote...
This is a wonderful resource; thank you for putting it together! I have been very timid about using SquidCasts but your great lens may help me get a little bolder. I love the idea of 'casting on a SquidWhoer's birthday. 5**** and now a Featured Lens on Squidoo How To.
Posted December 21, 2008
clouda9 wrote...
Fabulous share! I've really been racking my pea-pickin' brain trying to figure out how to stay organized...this just did it for me. Thanks so much!
Posted November 08, 2008
Joan4 wrote...
Wow! I had not even considered a calendar - and love the idea of a calendar that would send me reminder e-mails. Great idea! Thank you!
Posted November 08, 2008
Jimmie wrote...
Brilliant ideas! Favoriting this. I need to mull this over. Also granting angel blessings for your willingness to share your secrets.
Posted September 10, 2008
ArtSiren wrote...
Very interesting! I've just been casting when I make a new lens, or when I change something in a lens, which has meant some have stagnated. I'd better get myself a calendar sorted out! Thanks!
Posted July 22, 2008
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