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Fresh Squid Graduation Class December 2008

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Getting Better Every Day!

Newly joined lensmasters from Fresh Squid Group are learning daily and improving their lens-crafting abilities! Each day is a brand new day with so many new lenses to read and write!

This month has been last of 2008 and lensmaster who joined are one of 250 Fresh Squids featured on Fresh Squid Group page. It may sound like small number but this group exist only for 3 and half months!

Visit these newcomers and cheer them - they graduated!

MEET FRESH SQUID GRADUATES



DECEMBER 2008

Fresh Squids in Contest!

Cheer to our winners! Your votes made this possible!

Winner of this month Fresh Squid Contest is Ramkitten with her lens:
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2nd place goes to Carol_Wingert for:
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Also, 2nd place goes to westgatex1 for:
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3rd place winner is TheGallionMan with:
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QUESTIONS FOR GRADUATES!

Following few questions are for our graduates, to let them express their feelings and share new knowledge with those who will come!

Why Did You Join Squidoo?

What were your expectations?

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    businessblossom Feb 4, 2009 @ 11:01 pm | delete
    I found Squidoo quite by accident -- I was doing some research on something totally unrelated, and I followed one of the links -- wham, I arrived on Squidoo's front page. I started reading about the company and checking out the lenses, and noticed how nice the people are around here and how very clean and functional the design is even for those of us who know relatively web design stuff. And of course, the fact that it was free didn't hurt anything. So I decided to join up. I have not created many lenses yet, relative to my time here, but what I find unique and delightful about Squidoo is the depth to which I am able to build out certain of my projects. My philosophy of building resources and portals is not wide but deep, and Squidoo really supports that -- although, granted, I am thinking now about creating, at long last, my sixth lens!
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    Solitudeone Feb 3, 2009 @ 6:22 am | delete
    For me, finding Squidoo came through researching SEO writers and suggestions they offered. I was looking for ways to help promote both my own website and new blog, and Squidoo was mentioned several times over.

    When I first started with Squidoo I read hundreds of lenses about creating lenses and everything else attached. Although my original intention was promotion, (and still is to some extent) I now take time to write here at my own pace, sometimes reflecting my blog writings in a different manner. This is one of the many good things about Squidoo. I can take my time now and polish a lense in my own ways.
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    burntchestnut Feb 2, 2009 @ 4:48 pm | delete
    I have a blog about moving from a city to a rural area, but hardly anyone was finding it - http://from-texas-to-tennessee.blogspot.com/ . My brother told me about Squidoo (I had never heard of it.) I like the idea of making a lens on one subject without feeling I had to keep posting on a regular basis. And I like that I can write a lens on any subject and they don't need to be related, like doing a blog. I'll keep updating my blog, but I like Squidoo lenses better. Plus I'd like to make a little money from Amazon and Google ads.
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    Ramkitten Feb 2, 2009 @ 12:24 pm | delete
    Well, first I found Twitter through a blog I like, where the blogger had a "Follow Me on Twitter" link. Then I randomly clicked on a Twitter follower/followee's tweeted link and found myself reading a lens. A really good one, too. I clicked on a lensrolled link and read another great lens. After about the fourth one, I started contemplating creating one myself. So it just sort of happened. The format and module choices really made it easy to create pages about anything and everything I wanted to write about.
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    Alethea000 Feb 2, 2009 @ 9:18 am | delete
    Hi there and thanks so much for voting me into the December Graduates competition!

    I stumbled across Squidoo as I was looking for ways to earn money on line.. I also have a passion for food and shopping so I set about creating some lenses. Within a week I developed around 5! had little sleep and drank far too much coffee (and wine) crafting my passions! Before long I really was addicted and am learning all the time, in terms of expectation my original objective to make money on line has sort of become seconday and now I am a truly addicted Squidooer to the point where I become aggitated if I haven't checked in for some reason on a dialy basis! We all have something of value to talk about, just go for it!
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Was It Hard to Get Around Squidoo?

What was the hardest? How you worked it out?

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    businessblossom Feb 4, 2009 @ 11:04 pm | delete
    Not really. My limited html knowledge was enough to get me out the gate, and the number of lenses where folks who have serious knowledge about both html and html on Squidoo was more than sufficient. I still have not been able to use everything I have learned -- but in the future, when I build out more lenses, I'm sure it will all come in handy.
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    burntchestnut Feb 4, 2009 @ 5:40 pm | delete
    The hardest thing to understand was using html in squidoo. On other web pages I've worked on, there are usually some tabs to do simple things like bold, enlarge the text, change text color, add links, etc. Or there's a tab to go to the html code and make changes there. There are some great squidoo lenses on with html code, but none explained where to put the code. Finally, I just put some html tags before and after some text I was typing. I saved the module, and my text was bolded like I wanted! Sometimes the simplest things throw you.
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    Solitudeone Feb 3, 2009 @ 6:24 am | delete
    It really isn't hard to get around Squidoo. Literally hundreds of lenses by masters with tons of information and advice. The forums are also very helpful, wheather just reading or seeking more detailed help. So take time to do both.
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    Ramkitten Feb 2, 2009 @ 12:26 pm | delete
    No, I thought it was relatively easy to learn my way around. I think the most challenging thing about creating lenses--other than coming up with what I hope is worthwhile, well-written content--was learning to use pictures in a variety of ways ... not to mention do so "legally."
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    Alethea000 Feb 2, 2009 @ 9:19 am | delete
    More to do with using html as I'd never used it before (there are plenty of useful lenses to help you out though)
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What Do you Like About Squidoo?

Share it with the world!

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    businessblossom Feb 4, 2009 @ 11:07 pm | delete
    The functionality of the pages, the people here, and the accumulated knowledge base. The lenses are easy to build and maintain, and you can do practically anything you want with them. The people here are really nice, helpful, and supportive. And smart. I learn something new every time I have time to roll through some of the lenses I haven't seen yet (which of course is the vast majority).
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    Solitudeone Feb 3, 2009 @ 6:35 am | delete
    There are avenues to explore and express yourself in many different ways. Squidoo makes it possible to become as creative with a lense as you wish to, and the subject base is wide open, what ever strikes your fancy or passion at any given moment. I found that in forming a lense, ease of use was obviously a foundation in the creation of Squidoo. Every where you turn, each way you go with your lense subject, there is something to help you with the layout and presentation. And if you're still not sure about something, there are many helpful people in the forums.
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    burntchestnut Feb 2, 2009 @ 5:08 pm | delete
    I like that you can do a one-page lens on any subject you find interesting. I have a blog, which I like doing, but I feel restricted with it because I need to keep my pages related to my blog title. At one time, I thought about starting more blogs because I have more interests, but squidoo lenses will give me more freedom. On squidoo, I can write about hundreds of subjects.
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    Alethea000 Feb 2, 2009 @ 9:20 am | delete
    It's sooo easy quite simply and you meet some great people, I used to worry if I had a comment in case it was negative but that's just not the protocol which is very refreshing!
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What Are Your Future Plans Here?

Make more lenses? Become Giant? Taking it slowly?

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    businessblossom Feb 4, 2009 @ 11:16 pm | delete
    Maintaining the five lenses I already possess (although one is fairly fixed in what it can do, and another is also pretty static), getting more traffic to the main ones (I just broke 30 views in a week on one), and building out one that is pretty large as carefully as possible. I'm in no hurry to put forward the sixth and later lenses, although the sixth is beginning to rattle around in my mind a little.
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    Solitudeone Feb 3, 2009 @ 6:44 am | delete
    Being able to meld my writing styles into a high quality lense atmosphere is perhaps one goal. Learning is an ongoing life process and this is another thing Squidoo provides. My newest lense is a wip, and has been that way for several weeks, but when done, it will hopefully provide great reading in quality lense style.
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    burntchestnut Feb 2, 2009 @ 5:02 pm | delete
    I want to keep making single lenses on a variety of subjects. I constantly think of things that would make great lenses and then I do a search on squidoo to see how often that subject has been written about. I've got a whole page of ideas.
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    Alethea000 Feb 2, 2009 @ 9:21 am | delete
    Keeping the content fresh and of value on the lenses I have a thinking carefully about how I plan my new ones
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What's Your Favorite Lens?

Yours or from someone else!

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Have you met these Fresh Squids? What do you think of them? Do you have advice you would like to share with them?

Or simply congratulate them? :)

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    CCGAL Jun 28, 2009 @ 8:39 am | delete
    Your Fresh Squid concept is tremendous - I admire how much effort you've put into helping newbies, and I appreciate VERY MUCH how you helped me. Congratulations to this graduating class of Fresh Squids, and congratulations to you for this lens, another achievement you can be proud of.
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    businessblossom Feb 5, 2009 @ 12:36 am | delete
    Thank you, Willow, for selecting me to be one of the December Fresh Squid graduates -- and congrats to all my fellow grads!
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