A Hearty Squid Angel Blessing Is Waiting For You!
In general, our group of currently active Squid Angels looks for quality, originality, creativity, and spam-free content. But all Angels have their own set of standards, too. Find out below what I look for in a lens to consider it fit for a "hearty SquidAngel Blessing"...
This Lens At A Glance...
- Squid Angel Video Featuring My Original Music
- How I Became A Squid Angel
- How Can You Break A Squid Angel's Heart?
- How I See My New "Job" As A Squid Angel...
- What I Really Like In A Squidoo Lens
- Masterpiece Squidoo Lenses - Fabulous Lensmasters
- More Incredible Lenses...
- For all your lenscrafting needs: Visit The Squidoo Answer Deck!
- How To Create Blessworthy Lenses...
- My Angel - Chef Karen
- Squid Angels Are Watching Over You...
- A Blessed Artist - Lensmaster Steve (tagsforkids)
- More Angels...
- The Founding Angel - Seth Godin
- Beautiful Angels!
- Squid Angels On The Web...
- Beautiful Angelic Music And Images
- And in the end - a little drama!
- Love This Lens?
- The Guest Book Of Squid Angel Chef Keem
- Chef Keem's Lensographies
Squid Angel Video Featuring My Original Music
And beautiful pictures from Alaska...
Squid Angels
Squid Angels are nominated by Squidoo.com HQ to help with suppressing the spam and elevating the quality pages made on the site. Join Squidoo.com for free and make your own pages about your passions. It's fun and you even make money for having it! This video introduces the past and current Squid Angels. Music by Chef Keem. http://www.squidoo.com/squid-angel-blessings
curated content from YouTube
How I Became A Squid Angel
And some of my new pleasures and responsibilities...
I joined Squidoo.com on January 29th, 2008. Many lensmasters confess to some kind of addiction to squidooing, and I'm certainly not in denial of mine. Squidoo has given me a wonderful creative outlet, a huge class room for learning the ropes about Web 2.0 and internet business, and a gaggle of beautiful new friends. And I didn't have to pay a dime - I even made some money for having all that fun!By the end of June I had 50 quality lenses on my account, and on July 2nd, Headquarters awarded me with a Giant Squid badge. I'm very proud of my 2 Lens-of-the Day selections, Organic Flavored Agave Nectar and The Anonymous Alcoholic.
In September of 2008, I received the honor of Squid Angel status. I can't tell you how humbled and overjoyed I felt about my nomination. I'm also aware of the responsibilities attached to a Squid Angel badge: To improve the quality of Squidoo.com by supporting the good and suppressing the bad - in the form of "Squid Angel Blessings" and "Squid Angel Dings".
And then there are several more Squid Angel activities happening out of the general public eye - emails to Squidoo HQ with recommendations for "Lens of the Day" honors, reporting of spammy stuff, discovery of promising new lensmasters, direct emails to lensmasters with tips and support...to name just a few.

I'm a Squid Angel in Squidoo heaven. Do you want to know what it looks like, up here?
It's as beautiful as the Gulf of Alaska coast near the mouth of the Bering Glacier...

It's as liberating as spreading your wings on a summer day near the Chugach Mountain Range...

It's as ecstatic as doing the "Giant Moose Dance" in the rain...

Squid Angel graphics (dark and light logo with wings) by Squid Angel Comfortdoc.
Creative Commons. © 2009 LensDoc (Kirsti A. Dyer).
Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License.
How Can You Break A Squid Angel's Heart?
What ruffles the feathers and brings on the "dings"?
Spam is great when fried and served with roasted potatoes or on a toasted bun.Spam in a Squidoo lens, however, is as useless as a monster rack on a moose cow.
Spam is annoying, boring, ineffective and rude. It achieves the opposite of what you're after (happy return visitors) - it turns people off!
Spam breaks a Squid Angel's heart!

Spam shall be dinged to "Cloud minus 666" (it's cold, down there)!
"These two beautiful quotes shall illustrate my personal philosophy as a Squid Angel."
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
-G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
-Luciano de Crescenzo
How I See My New "Job" As A Squid Angel...
Let me elaborate on my "philosophy"
Many of my lenses feature a lightly humorous approach to my topics - I don't take myself too seriously. I love to explore other people's "take" on a large variety of subjects and I respect their opinions. That's all I have for my life, too - my opinions. I hope to be inspired to change my opinions often, as I learn and grow within this generous community of authors.
So, what this means is that I won't pass any Squid Angel judgment based on the "message" of a lens. If the presentation is skillful according to general Squidoo guidelines, a lens with honest, original, and personal content can probably persuade me to giving it a hearty Squid Angel Blessing.
As the second quote states so beautifully, we all need to work together to make Squidoo.com and our lenses a success on the web. Unique, remarkable content brings visitors to the site and helps Squidoo as a business venture. Squid Angels, as the extended arm of Squidoo HQ, help to promote great content by rewarding it with rank-boosting blessings. This, in turn, shall motivate lensmasters to create more quality pages for their increased earnings through Squidoo's growing success. I'm proud and happy to be part of such a glorious win-win system.
What I Really Like In A Squidoo Lens
Stars and Blessings are waiting for these gems!

In a moment I will list some examples of what I consider absolute Masterpiece Lenses. Here's what I love about them - they all present one or more of my favorite qualities in a Squidoo page:
- Great story-telling
- Emotionally invested
- Personal experiences
- Beautiful pictures or illustrations
- Well-researched information
- Silly thigh slappers, a hoot, hilariously bizarre!
I love to read every word in these pages, not just glance through them. They make me want to support the lensmasters as much as I can - with comments, star ratings, favorites, lens rolling, LotD recommendations, social bookmarkings, and blessings.
Have a good look and see what I mean...
Masterpiece Squidoo Lenses - Fabulous Lensmasters
A small selection for your enjoyment...
This is a very subjective selection of what I personally consider some of the best pages on Squidoo.com. I have many more favorites that I can't feature due to this limited space. These lenses deserved my "hearty SquidAngel Blessing"!-
Life as a Foster Child
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This is my story as a foster child. I hope it helps someone understand us, especially the foster parent. I hope it makes the case workers really listen to us. I hope it changes the system, but I'm afraid it won't.
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Shih Huang Ti, First Emperor of China | Qin Shi Huang
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Shih Huang Ti (or Qin Shi Huang Ti) was heir to the throne of Chin, a powerful feudal state in northwest China. On his accession he set about uniting China, annexing the other feudal states with ruthless efficiency, aided by espionage, brib...
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Mosquito Protection Society
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I know you are probably asking yourself who on earth would harm such tiny, fairy-like creatures, but sadly, millions of mosquitoes are injured or killed every year by humans. Our goal at the Mosquito Protection Society is to educate people about how...
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Stuffed Cabbage *
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One of my fondest food memories growing up is watching my grandmother make Stuffed Cabbage ... and then, of course, eating it! She had a "secret ingredient" that made her stuffed cabbage rolls the best I've ever had! I'l...
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More Incredible Lenses...
You'll notice I love the funny stuff!
Again, there are so many more exquisite works by fabulous lensmasters on Squidoo. Please check my lensography for my lenses on "The Funniest Lensmasters" and "The Most Important Squidoo Lenses For America Today".-
Arkansas Hillbilly The Official Redneck of the South
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Funny Arkansas Jokes Before we go any further, I just want to say I am from Arkansas Country! So I have the experience to back this page up!! Whats the first thing that comes to your mind when someone says Arkansas? Most people will say hillbillies. S...
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A Weekend City Break In New York
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Do you fancy a City Break in New York? Have you wanted to go to New York but need to know about what to do when you are there? Apart from the major tourist attractions in Manhattan like the Statue Of Liberty, The Empire State Building, Central Park a...
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CHURCH OF CHORTLE
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The Church of Chortle is dedicated to the worship of wit, whimsy and wonk. Anyone amused at the thought of sharing a pew with a Goddess of Giggles and a Grin-And-Bear-It Guru is most welcome to join in the fun and frivolity...
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Oktoberfest in Munich | Bavaria | Germany | Beer | Food | Costume | 2009
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Oktoberfest 2009 in Munich has one week left to go! Having lived many years in Munich myself, I found that the Oktoberfest is an inescapable reality you can either love or hate. It celebrates Bavarian tradition like no other single event. On the ot...
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Menopause: You Need Some Laughter!
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It is no fun being a cantankerous hell-on-wheels! Especially if you aren't used to it! Well I knew something was wrong when my usual charming self found it okay to flip the bird to someone that ticked me off on the highway - thank goodness I don...
Here's my favorite link:
For all your lenscrafting needs: Visit The Squidoo Answer Deck!
How To Create Blessworthy Lenses...
As taught by these Masterpiece Lenscrafters
These great tutorial lenses will show you the basics of making a good Squidoo lens. Without these essentials you will find it difficult to be considered for a Squid Angel Blessing.-
Why Build a Lens?
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Squidoo is a website hosting hundreds of thousands of handbuilt webpages (just to be difficult, we call them "lenses"). Each lens is one person's look at something online. Your take on football or business or the best thai food in town. Lenses are f...
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The Introduction Module in Squidoo
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The introduction module in squidoo has an inbuilt table of content. Do use it! And do upload a picture as an intro image - not having one will stop people from featuring your lens on theirs. And no - just using HTML to put a picture in there does NO...
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Common Newbie Squidoo Mistakes
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Making a Squidoo lens is easy. Making a good Squidoo lens, well, that's another story. A lot of Squidoo newbies ask veterans to critique their lenses, and most of these lenses are not nearly as good as they could be. (There are exceptions!) Hopefull...
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Squidoo Tips And Tutorials
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This lens presents my archive of Squidoo resources: tips for beginners, how-to lenses, articles about Squidoo.com, Squidoo books, Squidoo tricks, insights, trials and errors to learn from, Squidoo tools, Squidoo help, outstanding lenses by top Squido...
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How to Squidoo -- A Step-by-Step Primer
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This step-by-step primer gives you plenty of how-to information on how to get started building your Squidoo lens. Get some useful tips about how to build that lens with plenty of helpful pictures of the various templates you can use. You'll see plent...

My Angel - Chef Karen
Squid Angels Are Watching Over You...
Go to their lenses and introduce yourself!
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Squid Angel
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SquidAngel Blessing | If you have found your way here you have probably been 'Blessed By A Squid Angel!' What just happened? Read on to find out more about Squid Blessings and more about SemperFidelis. Perhaps some randomness, as well!
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I've Been Blessed by a Squid Angel! (or hoping to be)
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Have you been blessed by a Squid Angel? Or are you wishing for an angel blessing? Are you wondering what the blessing actually DOES? This is the right place to be! I'll try to unveil the mystery of the Angels program. My time as an angel is over....
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Is A Squid Angel Looking Over Your Shoulder?
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Have you been Blessed by a Squid Angel? Did you even know that there is a group of lensmasters on Squidoo who are Squid Angels? You may never even have heard of the Squid Angels. Or perhaps you know that they exist but know little about them. Well I...
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Squid Angel -- Blessings to YOU!
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This is the first instance on Squidoo that I've actually written about my Catholic upbringing in Cleveland, Ohio, and what an impact it had on my spiritual being. You see, it was the nuns and priests that I encountered in elementary and grade sc...
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Ten Tips for a Bless-Worthy Squidoo Lens
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Being a Squid Angel is a responsibility I take very seriously. I'm currently serving my third term as a Squid Angel, and am thrilled to have an opportunity to recognize and reward Squidoo lenses worthy of a boost. It's exciting to meet...
A Blessed Artist - Lensmaster Steve (tagsforkids)
The "Angel" behind many beautiful designs...
See his marvelous work at his SquidArt Lens and check out his other fine pages, too.
Squidoo logo is a trademark of Squidoo LLC. Graphics and Squidoodles © 2008 by tagsforkids (Steve Thompson) . Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License.
More Angels...
Waiting for your visit!
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WHO? SquidAngels!
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Get to know the SquidAngels! We are a small group of dedicated lensmasters with special powers to bless remarkable lenses for a little LensRank (and ego) boost. We also help to keep Squidoo safe from spam and other bad apples. Did you know?: Eve...
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Squidoo Tips From a Veteran Squid Angel
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It's time to fly! Yes, it's true....the founding class of Squid Angel's has flown away home to hang up our Squid Angel wings. The baton has been passed to the next class of Angels who will be seeking to discover the best lenses in every category at S...
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What I Look For In A Lens! by a Squid Angel
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First off, it is an honor to be one of the first Squid Angels on Squidoo and I take this responsibility very seriously. There are a great many lens makers here on Squidoo that are keen on improving their lenses; to increase traffic, lens rank and pos...
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SquidAngel Guidelines
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About 10 days ago, a new feature called SquidAngel was instituted on Squidoo. It is a brilliant concept. Here are my top 5 reasons: 1. It will improve the quality of lens. 2. It will drive more traffic to the lens. 3. It will create renew excitement am...
The Founding Angel - Seth Godin
He has blessed all of us with his generous creativity!
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Amazon Price: $13.62 (as of 11/28/2009)![]()
List Price: $20.95
Used Price: $3.20
Release Date: 05/08/2003
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Squid Angels On The Web...
- Feedmysearch needs your opinion, help and advice
- Dear feedmysearch user, Feedmysearch would require some serious server upgrade and a bit of developm...
Beautiful Angelic Music And Images
Angels
For You... Angels, answer me, are you near if rain should fall? Am I to believe you will rise to calm the storm? For so great a treasure words will never do. Surely, if this is, promises are mine to give you. mine to give... Here, all too soon the day! Wish the moon to fall and alter tomorrow. I should know heaven has her way - each one given memories to own. Angeles, all could be should you move both earth and sea Angeles, I could feel all those dark clouds disappearing... Even, as I breathe comes an angel to their keep. Surely, if this is promises are mine to give you. mine to give... -------------------------------------- THANK YOU ALL!!!... for the 4,500,000 views and more... for all the ratings... for all the comments... for all the favorited... I AM Honoured... San (2009) Angeles Composer: Access: http://www.enya.com
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And in the end - a little drama!
Watch this short video about a rejected chef...
Love This Lens?
The Guest Book Of Squid Angel Chef Keem
Please rate this lens and leave your comments and questions here...
If you've created a lens according to the criteria presented above, please leave me a note in this guest book and I'll be glad to stop by for a visit.
Good luck with all your endeavors on Squidoo.com!
Check out my best candy ever, if you like. It's divine and, um, angelic!

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- SoyCandleLover-Maker SoyCandleLover-Maker Nov 16, 2009 @ 1:11 pm
- Hi Chef. Just wanted to let you know this is a featured lens on my newest Santa Claus and Angel Blessed lens. Thanks :D
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- jgelien jgelien Nov 14, 2009 @ 5:04 pm
- I have been fortunate in receiving angel blessings on several of my lenses. I feel that it is a very high honor and I am thankful. I love the beautiful angel music and photographs in this lens. Thank You
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- lakshyaa lakshyaa Nov 10, 2009 @ 8:33 am
- Hello,
This is a very pleasing lens on squid angels..I am quite new to squidoo, created my first lens last week about venice trip experiences http://www.squidoo.com/venice-trip-review and just published the 2nd one yesterday. I wish to get your blessings.
Thank you!
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- SoyCandleLover-Maker SoyCandleLover-Maker Oct 19, 2009 @ 12:02 pm
- I think you must be my Blessings charm. :D
I've been blessed 5 more times on 4 more lenses since you graced my lens with your heavenly appearance last Wednesday. Thanks so much!
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- mukunda22 mukunda22 Oct 18, 2009 @ 2:53 am
- Revisiting to spread my angel wings.
####Blessed####
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- SoyCandleLover-Maker SoyCandleLover-Maker Oct 14, 2009 @ 7:48 am
- Thanks again for your blessing on my lens
My Favorite Reality Contest TV Shows - Cooking.
I've also posted it to Myspace with a link to this lens about Angel Blessings.
Take care, dear Angel. :D
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- mukunda22 mukunda22 Sep 15, 2009 @ 7:10 pm
- This is a very relaxing lens. I see everyone who visits talks about propping up their feet and relaxing--well that's exactly what I am doing, too!!
Thanks so much for blessing my Mother Mary lens--come to think of it, a Let It Be Paul MaCartney video would be perfect there.
See? Just hanging out here gave me an idea!!
Love and blessings to you.
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- Ener-G Ener-G Sep 1, 2009 @ 1:06 pm
- Thanks for my angel blessings, Chef! You're the best!
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- _Joan_ _Joan_ Aug 23, 2009 @ 12:01 pm
- More thanks for more blessings. You are an angel, indeed!
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- _Joan_ _Joan_ Aug 16, 2009 @ 1:50 am
- Thank you so much for your blessing on my "Singing in a Gospel Choir" lens!
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Chef Keem's Lensographies
All my Squidoo lenses in one place...
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My Squidoo Tips Lensography
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I joined Squidoo on January 29, 2008. Many generous lensmasters taught me how to squidoo - how to make lenses that attract interest (and traffic). I became a Giant Squid in July and joined the ranks of our Squid Angels in September. It's been an...
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My Culinary Arts Lensography
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"Culinary Arts" is a big word - but does it taste good? I share my very best recipes and personal culinary tips with you in this page. Find detailed cooking instructions with step-by-step pictures of the perfect ribeye steak, wild duck and salmon rec...
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Chef Keem's Amazing People Lensography
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General Chuck Yeager and George Eckrich, Jim Hightower and Maria Corbalan, Barack Obama and my wife, Margaret Schaut and Chip Taylor, my parents and certain whistleblowers - what do these people have in common? I know them personally or I admire them...
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Chef Keem :: My Lensography
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My world looks different through my squid eyes: clearer, more thought-out, better researched, better understood. Make no bones about it - I love Squidoo, and it was love at first sight. On January 29th, 2008 I discovered a completely new opportunity...
by chefkeem




Hi, I am Chef Keem, sentenced to Squidoo-for-life.
Born and raised in Munich, Germany. First career in pop music as A&R Director, record arranger... (more)









