Virtual Concert Week on Squidoo

And the winning lens is...

Pick a Group, Pick a Charity
Stage a Virtual Concert

Introducing our own Rock Star Squid or a Squidoo Rockstar designed especially for the Squidoo Activist's Virtual Concert Series.

Feel free to include the Rock Star Squid or Squidoo Rockstar on your lenses, but please do not use it as the main graphic in the introduction module.

We want to make sure that we have a variety of images used for the Virtual Concerts.

Image: Squidoo Rockstar. © Kirsti A. Dyer. Some Rights Reserved.

The Squidoo Activist's Virtual Concert Series is open to anyone who wants to make a lens.

Simply make a lens and make sure that the proceeds are set at 100% to benefit the Squidoo Charity Fund or one of the other official Squidoo Charities.

Since the Virtual Concert is open to all types of musical genres, I decided we needed a few more Musical Squids to meet the needs of the other types of music.

For Our Traditional Singers and Violinists a Squid Singer and a Squid Violinist:


For Our Country Western Fans a Singing Squid Cowboy and a Squid Fiddler:


Images: © Kirsti A. Dyer. Some Rights Reserved.

1. Submit your lens to the Virtual Concert Group, the Bands that Give Back and if you are an Activist to the Squidoo Activist Group.

2. Get in touch with a Squidoo Activist and have them submit the lens to Anne.

3. 3. Submit your lens to the Add Your Virtual Concert to the List Plexo (Note that the plexo is a bit wiggy this morning, but add it anyway.)

4. Visit the other Virtual Concerts that other people have created, rate them, favorite them and leave a message.

Anne has spoken about the Winners for the Virtual Concert.

This week I would like all of you to nominate the winner from outside the Activist group - winner will get LoTD and $100 to their favorite charity. And of course the nominating Activist will get a special shout out. Traffic traffic traffic AND the great feeling you get from helping another person.

Who are we looking for? The known, the unknown, the creative, the knowledgeable. You guys know a good lens when you see it!

Nominations to me by Sunday evening and LoTD will be Monday.

Remember for this challenge we are looking for an unknown.

Image Source: Modified Microsoft Image.

Making lens to contribution to the Virtual Concert Lens is simple. All it just takes is just a little bit of time. To get started:

1. Pick your favorite band, group or person as the focus of your Virtual Rock Concert or Virtual Concert.

Start by clicking the "Make a Lens" button on this page.





2. Be sure that you select your favorite charity, like the Squidoo Charity Fund, as the beneficiary for the lens Payment Options.

3. Add a Text Module to Plug the Virtual Concert Series. See the next module below.

4. Publish your lens.

Please be sure that you submit a quality lens and no "adult" rated lenses. We are trying to generate funds for a good cause.

U2 talks about the One Campaign in every concert they have. Coldplay talks about Oxfam International. A stage with thousands of screaming adoring fans is a good time to promote a good cause.

Remember "We Are the World"? Farm Aid? Band Aid? All hosted to raise money for causes. How? Bands got together to perform, raise awareness and donate money. What a great idea!

Summer is concert season. It seems like all bands go on tour. Nothing like live music on a warm summer night!

What if you could host a benefit concert? You have a cause that's important to you. What better way to have it announced than by your favorite performer in a room full of people who paid big bucks to get there?

This is the point of the Virtual Concert Week on Squidoo.

Who would you pick and what cause would you raise money for? Make a lens and tell us about it!

Images: Squid Singer. © Kirsti A. Dyer. Some Rights Reserved.

Singing brings out in me what I can't normally bring out in everyday life.
It's an incredible feeling to be able to bare your soul to people you've never met in a way that can make them understand so clearly what you mean.
That's what I love most about singing ... it becomes my truest form of communication.

Josh Groban

The Virtual Concert Series isn't limited to Rock Groups or Rock Bands, especially if this type of music isn't your thing.

Think about the type of music that moves you or speaks to you. For me that artist is Josh Groban, who is considered to be a classical crossover.

If you prefer another style of music classical, pop, jazz, country, hip-hop, opera or classical crossovers, make a Virtual Concert for your favorite musician or musical group.

Image Source: Sanja Gjenero. Pure Music 1. Royalty Free Use.

Who Do You Want to See in the Spotlights? - V Fouche. Red Stage Lights. Royalty Free Use.

Host a Virtual Rock Concert on Squidoo - Composite Image created from Mario Alberto Magallanes's Show and Kelly O'Connor's RSJ Concert 1, both Royalty Free Use.

Who Rocks Your World? - Gerrit Pruis. Stones. Royalty Free Use.

Who Makes You Rock Out? - Jatakuck. Concert. Royalty Free Use.

What Music Moves You? - Modified Microsoft Image.

Host a Virtual Concert on Squidoo - Composite Image created from from Mario Alberto Magallanes's Show and Billy Alexander's Curtains, both Royalty Free Use.

Who Do You Want to See Take the Stage? - Modified Microsoft Image.

This group benefits the Squidoo Charity Fund (34%), AIDS Research Alliance (33%)and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (33%).

The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation seeks to prevent pediatric HIV infection and to eradicate pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs.

AIDS Research Alliance searches for ways to stop new HIV infections and find a cure to AIDS. They are conducting research on a larger, more diverse variety of AIDS treatments than any other community-based organization.