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Rocket Moms on Squidoo - My Session 1 Lenses

Session 1 of Squidoo Rocket Moms was a 6-week program of lens creation and community building. I was one of 60 Squidoo lensmasters who are also mothers, grandmothers or mothers-to-be to participate as a team member in the first Rocket Moms group. It was a bit hectic, challenging even for a Giant Squid, and so much fun I'm ready to go for Session 2.

This lensography showcases the lenses I created for each project in the first Rocket Moms six week program. I've also included links to all the Rocket Moms lenses created for that week so you can enjoy the rich variety and great content my fellow Rocket Moms developed in such a short time.

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Rocketmoms is an invite-only gathering of the smartest women on the web, working together to make Squidoo lenses and a whole lot more. Want to be a Rocket Mom? You need only be a mom and a Squidoo lensmaster to qualify. Contact Squidoo Rocket Moms mentor, Bonnie (bdkz) if you're interested in participating in a future session..

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What's a Squidoo Rocket Mom? 

Rocket Moms - The smartest women on the web

The Rocket Moms are a team of caring, smart, passionate moms of all ages participating in an invite-only lensmaster program at Squidoo. The first group of Rocket Moms - approximately 60 women of all ages and experience levels - signed on to build a minimum of 6 lenses in 6 weeks from provided topics. Coached and guided by Bonnie D (bdkz), these lensmasters ranging from newbies to Giant Squids - moms-to-be, moms and grandmothers - created top-notch lenses using a new branding template.

The first team of Rocket Moms has the privilege of inviting up to 5 new members into the next session to become new Rocket Moms and build a lens a week for 8 weeks. If you'd like to join the Rocket Moms team, get in touch with me, Bonnie or any of the other cool Rocket Moms and request an invitation to the next session - or request more information.

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Start Up Lenses 

Existing Lenses Converted to the Rocket Moms Template

To get things started with the new branding template, Bonnie offered to convert 2 existing lenses from existing Squidoo templates to the Rocket Moms template.

I selected one of my most popular (and one of my very first) lenses to convert to the Rocket Moms template - Make Your Own Costumes, Masks and Face Paint. For my second conversion lens another from my family-parenting niche: Pastiche Family Portal-Learning and Play for Parents, Teachers and Kids. This lens showcases my labor of love, a family webzine I started as my very first real web site, in1998. It's still my most popular site and more popular than ever with moms, dads, teachers and kids.
featured lens Make Your Own Costumes, Masks and Face Paint

It's easy and inexpensive to make your own costumes and home made face paint makeup. Make Halloween and dress up costumes for kids or costumes for adults using materials you probably have on hand in your cupboards and closets, or even stuff from...

featured lens Pastiche Family Portal - Learning and Play for Parents, Teachers, Kids

Pastiche Family Portal is an award-winning family web site filled with hand-picked home and family lifestyle articles, seasonal crafts, recipes and personally screened quality family links for parents, teachers, day care providers and even special se...

 

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Week 1 - Build an About Me Lens 

I'm a Giant Squid, and I'd already created an About Me lens, so I decided to have some fun with this Rocket Moms lens project and get a bit more personal. I had so much fun with the concept that I created two lenses for this assignment. First I started to write about "What's in My Closet" and that led to a spinoff lens about my Funky Hat Collection. I'll probably build more spinoff lenses using this concept - about my shoes, my jewelry, my tee shirts and my collection of unusual fashion accessories.
featured lens Showing off the RocketMoms "About Me" Lenses

The RocketMoms are a group of caring, smart, passionate moms who are participating in an invite-only 6 week program to create some pretty awesome lenses. Their first project was to make an "About Me" lens. Here are a few of the brilliant lenses that...

featured lens What's In My Closet - Pastiche's Funky Fashions

I don't know when I fell in love with wearing clothing that was a little off-beat or ahead of the pack. I remember going to a wedding with my grandmother when I was about 4 years old and being fascinated with the taffeta dresses and elbow length fing...

featured lens Funky Fashions - My Hat Collection

I have always loved hats. My love affair with hats goes back to my childhood. Even though hats went out of fashion when Jackie Kennedy entered the white house, I never lost my passion for head wear. My hat collection has always been and is today a bi...

 

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Mastering Niche Marketing 

Rocket Moms is a niche of Squidoo lensmasters who are part of a rapidly expanding online market segment - moms, grandmothers, moms-to-be. That same groups is also one of the largest growing social site demographic groups on the web. Learn more about niche marketing and how you can earn a living through online channels - blogs, articles, web sites, Squidoo and more - with this book.
Mastering Niche Marketing: A Definitive Guide to Profiting From Ideas in a Competitive Market

Mastering Niche Marketing: A Definitive Guide to Profiting From Ideas in a Competitive Market

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Week 2 - Create a Niche Lens 

The second assignment for Rocket Moms was to build a niche lens.

Niche lenses are my Squidoo specialty, so I jumped into this project one right away. I was thinking about peace and it was Cinco de Mayo season, so I created 4 lenses, two each in 2 of my Squidoo niche categories: coloring books and crafts for kids.
featured lens Peace Coloring - The Color of Peace

Children love coloring and themes of peace. Peace coloring book activities and drawing peace pictures teaches children how peace, kindness, conflict resolution and positive behavior can improve their lives and the world around them. Children enjoy c...

featured lens Crafts for Kids - Fiesta Crafts

Children will enjoy learning about Mexican culture from easy fiesta crafts, party decorations and fiesta theme coloring pages. Children can celebrate Fiesta, Cinco de Mayo, Dia de los Muertos or any other reason to have a fiesta style party with Fie...

featured lens Make Peace Not War- Peace Crafts

Teaching peace helps everyone, and we can use peace arts and crafts to supplement the lessons of peace and peaceful living. Peace crafts and peace with art themes is popular in all cultures throughout the world. Children, youth, adults and seniors al...

featured lens Showing off the RocketMoms "Niche" Lenses

The RocketMoms are a group of caring, smart, passionate moms who are participating in an invite-only 6 week program to create some pretty awesome lenses. Their second project was to make an "Niche" lens. Here are a few of the brilliant lenses that th...

featured lens Fiesta Coloring Books - Cinco de Mayo Coloring

Ola! Set a festive tone for a childrens party with fiesta coloring book pages for Cinco de Mayo and Day of the Dead. Teach Mexico culture with coloring pages and pictures to color of cactus, serapes, sombreros and maracas. Decorate fiesta coloring p...

 

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Rocket Mom Project #3 - Create a Recipe Lens 

The third lens project for the Rocket Moms team was to create a new recipe lens.

This assignment produced what could quickly be turned into a Rocket Moms cookbook - hey, there's another idea for a lensography (or a group is we could still create new groups on Squidoo).
featured lens Crunchy Granola Recipe

Granola - it's been around for ages and became a breakfast staple at Woodstock in 1969. I prefer to prepare wholesome, healthy foods for my family so crunchy granola is a favorite recipe in our home. If you compare the taste of this crunchy granola t...

featured lens Showing off the RocketMoms "Recipe" Lenses

The RocketMoms are a group of caring, smart, passionate moms who are participating in an invite-only 6 week program to create some pretty awesome lenses. Their third project was to make a "Recipe" lens. Here are a few of the brilliant lenses that the...

 

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Rocket Mom Lens #4 - Create a Travel Lens 

I had a real sense of being in the zone when this assignment came out. I had been working on a lens about the Lakes Region of New Hampshire when Bonnie posted the topic for our fourth lens project: create a travel lens. I was ready to hit publish at about the same time she posted the guidelines for Rocket Moms lens #4.
featured lens Showing off the RocketMoms "Travel" Lenses

The RocketMoms are a group of caring, smart, passionate moms who are participating in an invite-only 6 week program to create some pretty awesome lenses. Their fourth project was to make an "Travel" lens. Here are a few of the brilliant lenses that t...

featured lens Castle in the Clouds of New Hampshire

Castle in the Clouds is an historic mountaintop estate overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee in central New Hampshire. The castle and grounds have been restored and preserved as they were when it was home to its builder, Thomas Plant and his bride, Olive. T...

 

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Rocket Mom Lens #5 - Holiday Lens 

I was really getting "synched" with the Rocket Moms team and lens building by this week. I had a second instance of mind-merge when this assignment came out. I had just about finished a holiday lens about Memorial Day when Bonnie posted this lens project assignment.
featured lens Showing off the RocketMoms "Holiday" Lenses

The RocketMoms are a group of caring, smart, passionate moms who are participating in an invite-only 6 week program to create some pretty awesome lenses. Their fifth project was to make a "Holiday" lens. Here are a few of the brilliant lenses that th...

featured lens Memorial Day - Decoration Day

Memorial Day is not simply a day to "kick off" the summer season. It's much more than a reason to clean up the BBQ or have a picnic at the lake. It's a solemn holiday when the US pays respect to all fallen troops from all military conflicts. We place...

 

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Final Rocket Moms Assignment - Build a Lensography 

I built two lensographies for this assignment: I was in the process of creating one lensography for all my Crafts for Kids lenses (one of my niches). My second lensography was this Rocket Moms compilation you're reading now, Pastiche's Rocket Mom Lensography.
featured lens Crafts for Kids Lensography

Kids love crafts and moms, teachers and day care providers are always on the hunt for new crafts for kids. I'm now a grandma, and I still love kid crafts of all types. My favorite subject in school was art; I joined scouts and 4-H because we learned...

featured lens Showing off the RocketMoms "Lensography" Lenses

The RocketMoms are a group of caring, smart, passionate moms who are participating in an invite-only 6 week program to create some pretty awesome lenses. Their sixth project was to make a "Lensography" lens. Here are a few of the brilliant lenses tha...

featured lens Rocket Mom Lenses by Pastiche

Session 1 of Squidoo Rocket Moms was a 6-week program of lens creation and community building. I was one of 60 Squidoo lensmasters who are also mothers, grandmothers or mothers-to-be to participate as a team member in the first Rocket Moms group. It...

 

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A Final Word on Rocket Moms Exclusivity 

It's by invitation only, and you have to qualify

There are several specialized teams and groups on Squidoo: Giant Squids, Squid Angels, Community Organizers, Greeters, and now Rocket Moms. The requirement that a member must be a mom of any age or mom to be has generated interesting discussions on the SquidU forum. I've been following the commentary - some men are wondering why they can't be part of the group (there are men who are single parents doing similar work with families). Others muse about having a Rocket Men group, while some are a bit miffed. Mostly it's been tongue-in-cheek commentary and idea-throwing and all that is good for the entire community. What needs to be said is that Squidoo Rocket Moms is more than just a special invitation, new branded lens template, and mothers-only group.

The Rocket Moms project created recognition for a huge marketing segment that's part of the community on Squidoo. Marketing stats tell us that women and mothers make up a significant portion of the consumer market and work at home population. Futhermore, that the group is growing steadily, especially in the upper age brackets.

The largest segment of the Squidoo community falls into that market segment and they're the biggest traffic source for Squidoo. Translated into general terms it means that the majority of Squidoo members and visitors are women, many of them mothers or grandmothers. Squidoo is about marketing - on many levels - and about building a tribe and generating traffic-building content. And Rocket Moms is a tribe that's at the heart of the Squidoo community.

This doesn't mean men don't contribute brilliantly to Squidoo - because they certainly do. It doesn't mean women who aren't mothers have less value on Squidoo. Actually, quite the contrary. Without other lensmasters and their brilliant lenses and insight Squidoo could become a far less stimulating community. It simply means that the majority of Squidoo lensmasters and visitors are most likely new to the computing and being part of an interactive online experience and the['re jumping into Squidoo wholeheartedly. Why wouldn't staff wish to take advantage of that enthusiasm and potential to create a tribe within the community that's generating traffic, eyeballs and clicks?

Providing an environment for mentoring and encouragement to this rapidly expanding sub-group benefits everyone on Squidoo. It's a win-win for all lensmasters from where I sit. I look at the Rocket Moms team experience as a marketing pilot project. It could become a model for other sub-segment groups within Squidoo much the same as less formalized groups - those of you who build lenses from the various Squidoo-alt branding templates. Without diversity in the community Squidoo might be far less interesting - and have far less traffic overall - than it is for lensmasters and visitors alike.

I'm pleased that I was invited to participate in the first Rocket Moms team - I'm a niche content developer, a Giant Squid lensmaster and yeah, a mom/grandmother. But even if I hadn't been one of the "in group" I'd still find this project exciting and brilliant from the standpoint of a marketing experiment that will have ripples and benefits to all of us who swim in the Squid Sea. I see great potential from this - it can help to grow Squidoo exponentially at a faster rate. That will mean more visibility, credibility in the market place, and more traffic to great lenses.

Isn't that what we all want?

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lee hansen is a digital artist and writer who publishes pastiche family portal and designs free clip art, coloring books and crafts at squidoo

A few of my graphics are famous - perhaps you've seen them on blogs, in games on your iPhone or in YouTube videos.

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Want to look over my shoulder for coloring pages, clip art or crafts ideas? I save my favorite pages as a Shared Resource on Google Reader. I write at Helium, too.


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