Archive: Squidcasting - how to squidcast on squidoo

A squidcast is a message sent to all the fans you have on squidoo.

It gets sent to their 'your favorites' page.

A squidcast is usually an update on a lens or a message: hey, I made a new lens!

Sometimes squidcasts are used to give people squidoo tips or some other message that's squidoo related.

[Unfortunately this does not work with new lenses.

In that case you should
1) go to your lensography, or a related lens in your dashboard.

2) Hover over the title. Click where it says 'cast'.]

3) Make sure you link to the lens you are trying to promote in the squidcast. Use the built in wysiwyg editor for this purpose.
There are several ways you can squidcast. The easiest to explain is to
1) publish a lens.

When you've done that, a green box shows up on the screen with a link
2) 'squidcast this lens'.

Click on that link and you're in the edit screen.

5) Click send

Please do NOT use CSS on your squidcasts: major annoyance.

This was sent through squidcast recently. I'll keep it anonymous so as not to embarrass the author:

new keyword lens today!
Hi!

Thanks for signing up as a "fan" of my lenses. I have a pretty new lens and it got a "Lens of the Week" honor from one of my groups. I hope you like it too! Say hi if you drop by & I will do the same if you Squidoo!!

Let's start with the positive:

1) There is a keyword in the title to the post. This is good. I have some idea what the squidcast is about.
2) She thanks her readers. Always a good idea.

The negative - and the main reason I'm mentioning this one:

1) 'I have a pretty new lens' - which lens is pretty new?
She should have linked to that new lens, or squidcast from it - and made it clear she was talking about the lens she was squidcasting from. The result is confusing.

2) Note that I did not have to change a single word in the description of the squidcast to make it anonymous. There is nothing specific about the squidcast - it could be about any lens she owns - especially since we the readers don't know which lens got featured in one of her groups.

• give your post an appropriate title
  If your squidcast is about a new lens - please don't say 'new lens'.
  Instead say something about the topic of that lens


• Don't post too frequently. Squidcasting about the same lens three times on one day is probably too much.


• In fact: don't squidcast more than once a day at all


• Don't post about every lens: think about your audience.
  For instance: I made a lens about Buddhism today - very interesting for some of my audience, but unfortunately the lens is in Dutch - which most of them can't read. So I did NOT squidcast about it.


• Don't use CSS in your squidcasts. Ordinary bold and links are enough. Borders and colored backgrounds are annoying, not pretty.

The most annoying mistake I see in squidcasts is when the author has not made it clear which lens they are talking about. This happens especially when people squidcast about lens A, from lens B.

If you do that - please add a link to your squidcast so people can click through to the lens you are talking about.

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