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Andy's Blog Faves
I've created this lens just to keep all my favourite blogs in one place (and also to see how fast I can knock a worthwhile lens together).

If you are interested in new ideas, society, and psychology, you may find something you like here.
Article Marketing Basics

Article Marketing is the web-based crossroads where content-hungry demand meets information-rich supply. Whether you're a writer, a solopreneur, a regular office joe or just someone with a headful of useful knowledge, article marketing is a great way...

Best Writing Blogs

I love to read what other authors are writing about and one of the best ways to do that is by reading their blogs. 

Here I've started a collection of the best writing blogs - from authors, for authors.

To have a blog considered for inclusion, c...

Business Marketing Tips :: Effective Online Marketing Strategies by Rodney Rumford ::Blogs, Podcasts, RSS, Tags, Beyond SEO and Much More

This content may seem like a whack in the side of the head for some readers. Good! It is meant to wake you up and enlighten you about the new technologies that you can leverage to increase your marketing effectiveness, website traffic, leads, sales a...

Buzzoodle Buzz Marketing

What is Buzzoodle Buzz Marketing?  What would it mean to find that everyone in your organization met one extra new person each week? Or treated one more customer like they were special each day?
 
Your best advocates are the people already in...

Cartoons & Comix
He walks! He talks! He draws cartoons!
Chemistry of Daily Life

In this lens I'd like to talk you about the Chemistry of daily life. Chemistry is an exciting experimental science which lets us to understand our world and makes our life easier. As you will read in the following articles, chemistry is in our everyd...

City By The Bay: San Francisco City Guide

San Francisco, aka the City by the Bay, sits at the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay.  It connects to Marin via the Golden Gate Bridge on the North, and to Oakland via the Bay Bridge on the East.

Pictured her...

Creating Traffic
If you want to generate traffic, leads or prospects for any business or program, and potentially earn income even if these individuals choose not to sign up for your program. And you want to get started for free and work up to a self funded scenario....
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...
Feminist Activism

"You can have my civil liberties when you pry my cold dead hands of my keyboard."

Lense Focus

**Online E-Action on Feminist Issues
**Online tools for non-profits and upstart grassroots organizations
**Musings about being a young femi...

Gay Art History

Gay Art History huh?  What does that entail?  Well for our purposes here, it entails Art throughout history that has a homoerotic appeal. Sometimes that will include gay artists, other times art depicting men that was or is appreciated by m...

Gay in South America
Really useful information for gay travelers in South America. WARNING: The web-sites listed have no adult content but may have links to other web-sites that do!
Gay news: Feeds and links

A collection of feeds with information about and/or for queer folk.

For commentary about these and other stories, see our Queer commentary lens. Dishing and celeb rumor? Queer pop. Get local: Queer Seattle.

This lens is a service of lgbtQnews.com. It's...

Gay Seattle

Seattle gay groups, gay news, websites, and even a few people serving queer Seattle.

Our link lists below include a wide range of Seattle-area LGBT organizations along with all of the Seattle gay bars that have websites.

Add your info! Send a pres...

Gay,Thrive With It
Gay, Thrive with it will assist and support you in creating your thriving gay life. We as gay men and lesbians do not have to hide in the closet, struggle to survive or live lives imposed by others. We can choose to thrive. The goal here is to define...
Getting Started With Squidoo
Squidoo is the popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create "lenses" online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest--and...
Hippy Chick - My Favourite Music

The Music that defined a generation.

I was fortunate enough to experience growing up mostly in London though that strange and magical decade from the mid sixties to the mid seventies - the Hippy Era. The resulting influence on my music tastes and my l...

HIV/AIDS Awareness
My lens contains links to shirts, mugs, cards, posters, banners, DVD's, CD's, MP3's and books related to HIV/AIDS issues. These are either hand-selected by me or provided by keyword searches.

Also to promote others who are living openly with HIV to...
Homosexual Displays of Affection in Public!
How many times have you seen a straight couple holding hands, kissing, cuddling or showing affection towards each other in public?

...chances are you wouldn't care to put a number on such a common sighting.



Would you be more likely to register see...

Introducing Plexo

We've made a major change to Squidoo. Now, each and every lens can include the all-powerful, all-knowing, omniscient Plexo feature.

Plexo is like Digg or Reddit, but with the long tail added in for good measure.

Here's a Q&A:

Q: What's Plexo?
A: Plex...

Law of Attraction

The Law of Attraction (LOA) is THE single most important teaching in the world today. The Law of Attraction states that everyone is getting exactly what they are creating all the time, every time.

Most people are creating by default.  In other wo...

Learn How To Speak Chinese In Almost 58 Minutes
Nihao! This is a site focussed on helping people wanting to learn how to SPEAK Chinese, not so much read and write Chinese. Browse through and I trust that some of the deceptively simply but extremely powerful secrets uncovered will help you on your...
Marketing Solutions: Women in Business

Understanding the market potential

Gender differences and how to market to women

Organizations supporting women

How to reach women

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

Each year, for one week in August, thousands of womyn gather in the woods of Michigan for a spectacular celebration of womyn's music and culture. I'm talking about the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, called MichFest by some an...

Pink Floyd - The World's Greatest Rock Band

This is not just a lens about Pink Floyd - this is a lens where you can experience Pink Floyd - from the early days of the UFO club in London to the final reunion at Live 8 and beyond through the eyes of a lifelong fan - My first live gig - June 1970...

Practical EQ - Emotional Intelligence for the rest of us


Emotional Intelligence - just a fashionable buzzword or something you need to know about? If you are involved in management, sales, education, or running a business, I'd say the latter.



Although some overhyped claims have been made for EI in th...

RSS 101
This lens explores the basics of RSS and more generally 'feeds' and is part of my ongoing effort to educate people about new web technologies.
Sales | Sales Tips from Top Sales Pros

Hi!  My name is Frank Rumbauskas, and this is my New York Times bestselling book, Never Cold Call Again: Achieve Sales Greatness Without Cold Calling.

On this page I'm going to slowly reveal the insider secrets of top sales pros ... which you pro...

SearchBigDaddy - Free Advertising plus Extreme Viral Marketing

You may have already heard about SearchBigDaddy.  Or you may be thinking "What on earth is this?"

Whichever - If you have ambitions to grow your business - Please read this Lens

I promise you when you have finished your will, like me, r...

Speak and Grow Rich

Resources for Beginning and Professional Speakers

Steely Dan

A starter guide to my favourite band - welcome to the dark and twisted world of Steely Dan.

 
They're known for jazz-influenced writing, obscure but intelligent lyrics, cool arrangements, and hiring the very best session men around and staying on...

Stop Transphobia
I was inpsired by another lensmaster who has taken some of her time to set up a lens to raise awareness of an issue facing vulnerable people. In future I may set up more, but for my first I have chosen to highlight the issue of transphobia and the di...
TECHNOQueer design
A look into designs, movies, books and more supporting equal rights for the gay community! Pride, equality, liberty, justice and some just general queer fun!
The Art of Becoming an Information Entrepreneur
Update: Launched Mastering FriendFeed, via my Social Marketing Junkie brand. All information entrepreneurs need to do two things: 1.) keep an eye on the competition and 2.) maintain the momentum of your brand. FriendFeed lets you do both in one conve...
The Coolest Blogs Featuring Squidoo Ever
Blogging is good...and the some of the best Lensmaters on Squidoo have started one! I have complied the a Directory of The Coolest Blogs Featuring Squidoo Ever. Lensmasters really know how to promote a good thing, check out these super cool blogs!

I...
The Gemini Sign--Twins of Change

Welcome all you Geminis! I designed this lens to help you learn all about your zodiac sign, proudly display your Gemini-ness, and connect to your fellow Twins. Have fun!

If you happen to be a different sign, check out one of my other lenses:

Cancer&n...

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Group Headquarters
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Group

Squidoo lenses and lensmasters addressing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender issues.

Check out the lenses in this group now

This picture is from Hull Pride 2005 - it shows...

The Long Tail

The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the...

The MediaCoach
I am a Media Coach and Professional Speaker (see sites below). I am an expert on media communication, and author of The Pocket Media Coach (How To Books, published October 2005)
The Perfect Pen: How to Get Published

My real name is Constance but everyone calls me Connie. I've been a full-time published author for more than 10 years, with five novels published to date, by HarperCollins, Doubleday and Ballentine, and one novella by Harlequin. My work has hit many...

The Pink Marketing or How to Market to Women

Resources on how to market products and services to women. Features articles, interviews, comments, books, message boards and pretty much all I could find on this topic. Got any that's not here? Please let me know of it and I'll include it right away...

The Power of Questions

Questions have great power. One right question asked at the right time can change the direction of our lives. Hence, the quality of the questions that we ask ourselves is VERY important. It is for the same reason that we need to choose our compa...

The Six Best NLP Books For Business

Quite simply, this is my review of the best of the many business NLP books out there. If you know of a book that should be in this list, why not let me know at andy@practicaleq.com?

Get the reviews in this lens as a PDF document when you sign up for...

The Ultimate Marketing Group Headquarters



Are you a marketing genius? Do you have great PR advice? Are you willing to share your favourite marketing links? You can be one of our new lensmasters! Join the Marketing Gr...
TransHistory - A Colourful Past and Present

Trans men and women have been persecuted throughout history - mostly though ignorance.  This lens aims to put an end to the ignorance.

People get so confused about us, which is hardly surprising when you think about it. ...transgender, transsexua...

Web Marketing for Small Businesses
New Book by Stephanie Diamond, founder of Digital Media Works, a marketing and interactive design firm. She spent eight years as AOL's Marketing Director.To get a free-ecourse, TOC and sample chapter:
http://www.webmarketingforsmallbusinesses.com
Where Do Newbies Start Online?

Wouldn't you agree that before starting anything that you know next to nothing about that you need to be trained first? When you start a new job, don't you usually receive some sort of training? Well, shouldn't the same be true for people who are onl...

Wild Business Women ~ seg

Say a Prayer for our Troops and peace.

We are always looking to Network with other Wild Business Women

 If you would like to be added here just send me an e-mail

Women Artists I Admire

The title says it all. But there's more to this lens than admiration. Various modules are here to hopefully encourage,  enlighten and educate the reader.

Thanks for stopping by. If you would like your lens or site to be included here, please con...

Woodstock Music Festival 1969

Woodstock 1969


The 60's was a turbulent decade. The assassination of JFK kept us fixated on the TV for days and gave us an insecurity that other decades had not felt before.


 


Those of us growing into our own during the 60's were also ve...