Who is The People Behind Squidoo ?

Squidoo was started by the Original Squid, Seth Godin. Nearly ten years ago, Seth founded Yoyodyne, which originated the idea of permission marketing online. After Yoyodyne was acquired by Yahoo, he served as VP Direct Marketing for Yahoo for about a year. In 2000, Godin focused full-time on his career as an acclaimed public speaker, an author and a blogger. Seven of Seth's books have been bestsellers somewhere around the world, and his blog has been picked as the best business blog by several leading publications.

Seth's head is the most recognizable author icon in business.

Megan Casey. For the last five years, Megan worked in book publishing, most recently at the Portfolio imprint of Penguin Group, USA editing pioneering books from the likes of John Battelle, Seth Godin, Bo Burlingham and Dave Balter among countless others. Megan was generally regarded as the most effective editor working in the popular business book genre. She is also a user experience and marketing consultant for several author websites.

ps - she also writes really nice stuff about us! LOL

Corey Brown is a 12 year internet veteran and was the founder of Solutions Factory, a cutting-edge web strategy, content, design and development firm. He has advised numerous companies on a wide range of web-based initiatives, including Raytheon Corporation, Columbia Energy Group and Time Warner Cable. He is an open source and web standards fanatic. He's also a 'double cappuccino with soy' fanatic, and is at work getting the 16oz named after himself.

Gil Hildebrand, Jr. Prior to joining Squidoo, Gil served as an independent technology consultant to businesses nationwide. As a specialist in business process automation, Gil has successfully designed and implemented software systems that have boosted accuracy and dramatically lowered overhead for hospitals, insurance carriers, and pre-employment screening agencies. Working with Sprint and Cingular, he also designed a wireless communications infrastructure for tugboats. Gil is responsible for the majority of the AJAX infrastructure and module development at Squidoo. Gil is a New Orleans/Katrina transplant; we're proud to have him.

Everyone once in awhile, Gil drops by one of my lenses and leaves a nice comment! Thanks Gil, I really appreciate that you take the time out to do this.... and I feel so spezzzzzial!

Kimberly Dawn Wells, is one busy Squidette! She recently became the Community Organizer for Squidoo, which keeps her focused on building the community by bringing in new lensmasters, developing new ideas, and supporting new opportunities.

Part of her job is also the Editor of the SquidU Review. And with all that she does, you will often see Kimberly (that's with ONE e), or Kimmy or Berly (but never Kim), leaving guestbook entries on our lenses and posting on SquidU.

She is an author, a geeksquid who wrote Security Word Thesaurus (one of my favorites, as I always gigglegag when I see 'em), avid lensographer, fellow redhead (yes we do have more fun), and a volunteer firefighter too!

Kimberly sure is one positive influence on Squidoo!

Bonnie is a Giant Squid Organizer and the RocketMoms Organizer here on Squidoo. I can't keep up to what this girl does!

Bonnie and Robin (see below) are two members of the Squidoo community who know EVERYTHING there is to know about Purple Stars, the Giant Squids, making great lenses and lots more. They work directly with Megan at Squidoo HQ as your representatives and champions and go-betweens.

Robin is one of Giant Squid Community Organizers and writes The Giant Squid Community Showcase, where the Giant Organizers feature, the best and most helpful lenses made by the Giant Squids.

She is also the group leader of The Cupcake Club on Squidoo, an ever-growing collection of the best cupcake recipes ever.

Robin and Bonnie (see above) are two members of the Squidoo community who know EVERYTHING there is to know about Purple Stars, the Giant Squids, making great lenses and lots more. They work directly with Megan at Squidoo HQ as your representatives and champions and go-betweens.

thefluffanutta is a Software Engineer who lives in England, he builds websites as a hobby, has created a few lenses on Squidoo, often posts on SquidU, has developed many lensmaster tools, best known for his SquidUtils and also some contracting work for Squidoo HQ.

He's always around in many places, offering guidance, tips and answering our questions.

Thanks Mr. Fluff, we really do appreciate all your hard work!

Editors note: I wonder if he minds me calling him Mr. Fluff? LOL

Glen was a SquidU Mod and founder of Lensroll.com, where the cream rises to the top. He is always swimming around the forums to keep a close squideye on us. We usually behave, if not, then our sea creature powers may be revoked! * gasp *

He always has an encouraging word and the answer to our questions. And when we need it, wraps a tentacle around us and points us in the right direction. You've seen him around, don't you recognize him? LOL.

So who's Glen? Well, quoting directly from Glen himself, "Glen likes to write. If it's something that he hasn't already enjoyed or experienced in life if you so much as throw a topic at him and if he finds it even mildly interesting he'll research it until his fingers cramp up and his eyes are fatigued. He'll chew it up and spit it out like quality cud. For some that might be disgusting, but for others with a taste for the offbeat and whimsical it's like stumbling on a vein of gold."

Although best known for his Basic HTML for Squidoo and Advanced HTML for Squidoo, he has written some excellent "How To" lenses, along with an assortment of others. The funniest one I saw was Fold your shirt in 2 Seconds. And no Glen, I still can't do it!

Photo courtesy of paparazzi (yes, Glen named his camera LOL)

Kathy, aka "Pretty Bullet", just one of the squiderrific Squidoo Community members, is an avid Squidette! Hey, it's my lens, so I can put myself here! LOL

I just wanted to share with you My Squidoo Story. This is a funny lens I wrote about my life on Squidoo and the Squids and Squidettes I have met along the way. I hope you take a peek, I'm sure you'll gigglegag too!

Pssst Kimberly, see I told ya I was a redhead! *

* Editor's Note: courtesy of L'Oreal Deep Intense Red #RP04

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