Have You Taken The New Wikipedia Module for a Test Drive?

Squidoo has a new module, to access it just click on the Add New Module Button, then click the alphabet letter W. You'll see the new Wiki button. It's so easy to use, just type in what you're looking for and let the module do the rest.

I've had a couple come up blank. When that happens I just click through to the Wikipedia website and search for your person, or thing. When it pulls up the article put the last part of the title (should be similar to your search term in the article field of the Wikipedia module on your Squidoo lens. Hope this makes sense;)

Check out my Reese Witherspoon Movies lens, I added a Wiki article in there.

So much Squid fun!

There's Still Time!

There's still time to get your Squidmercial video in if you've been procrastinating. Check out the Squidmercial lens if you haven't yet to find out all the details on how you can be a Squidstar.

We've got some great entries but we're still waiting on yours. Just because we know your busy with the end of summer/ back to school rush we've extended the deadline to September 14th, so get out there with your video camera or digital camera (most can shoot short video) and make your ten seconds of fame now!

Squidoo Outside News

What's the scoop on Squidooers outside of Squidoo? Here are some things others have set up to help make your Squidoo life easier.

Have you checked out SquidUtils by the fluffanutta? SquidUtils has some great tools to help lensmasters optimize their lens. You can see the Google pagerank for all your lenses in the advanced lensmaster tools. You can also easily submit your lens to Lensroll, and Addthis (which has a whole list of social networking sites in one spot). You can ping your lens with Pingomatic, and the best tool of all is the ability to generate code for Amazon links. If your like me and you miss being able to add direct Amazon adds since Squidoo took away the iframe this is a great tool for you. Hop on over and check out all the great lensmaster tools fluffanutta has set up for us.

Hotbrain just posted a great article on taking your lens from 25,000 to 206 ranking in 8 days. Check out How To Improve Your Lens Ranking, and other posts at Hotbrain's blog.

Have You Had Your Fresh Squid Today?

Did you check out the great topics Squidtern Benedict served up with Fresh Squid today?

Rusty Quill gave us a great lens about the Best Family Tents and Other Goodies. Where she reviews tents, stakes, and other camping items. Check it out before your next big camping adventure.

Check out tomorrow's topics to see if you have a lens, or an interest to make a lens for Tuesday's Fresh Squid. Ooohhh, I love Queen of The Girl Geeks, I think it's a sign I'm one of 'em!

What's your favorite lens in the Fresh Squid Plexo for August 21st? Don't forget to vote for it!

Squidoo's Making A Squidmercial

The Squidmercial will be created by you! Starring, you guessed it... You! Check out the Squidmercial Lens for all the details. Then go grab your video camera and claim your 10 seconds of fame.

Follow the simple steps to make your video Squidderific! Then upload the video to YouTube, or Email the link to Squidoo.

Deadline: August 31, 2007. BUT, if you're one of the first submissions, you'll be given priority consideration for the video. So get out there and create your own 10 second Squidblurb.

Have You Checked Out Fresh Squid Yet?

Check out today's Fresh Squid ideas, and then check out the Fresh Squid Group for daily ideas through the end of 2007.

According to the Earthday Calendar today is World Lizard Day. Thanks to Gypsypirate for making a lens to commemorate the day, and adding it to the Fresh Squid Plexo for today's Fresh Squid Lens.

Pick a topic from one of the daily topic ideas, and create your own lens. Don't forget to add it to the Plexo (and vote for it)! Do you already have a lens that fits one of the topics? Feel free to add it to the Plexo. We'd love to hear from you!

Squidopoly Anyone?

Do you like to play Monopoly? I do, it's always been one of my favorite games. We have a couple of the special edition Monopoly games on our shelf, but mookiegifts has some on her Monopoly Games lens I've never heard of. I'm going to have to get the John Deere Tractor Board, we love John Deere at our house. Check it out if you like Monopoly. If you don't care for Monopoly check it out anyway, it's a really cool lens.

Anyone Like to Work With Beads?

Beading and jewelry making is all the rage these days, and Squidoo has some great lenses on the subject.

If you'd like to learn how to make glass beads check out NicoleB's lens on how to make glass lampwork beads. She explains lampwork, and even includes a glossary of terms if you get lost.

Lisel33's lens on Setting Dichroic Glass is another great read for anyone interested in making their own jewelry.

Looking for patterns to make your own jewelry? KnotGypsy has you covered in her, Original Designs in Hand Crafted Beaded Micro Macrame and Beaded Crochet Jewelry Lens.

Looking for unique stones for your jewelry? How about Interesting Unique and Unusual Gemstones -Tao Gems by Glyphman.

Looking for more? Just do a Squidoo search on jewelry, jewelry patterns, make jewelry or beads, (or any topic you're interested in), and check out some of the wonderful lenses you'll find at Squidoo. And if they don't have a lens on the topic you're looking for? Make your own lens on the topic and share with others.

Squid Love

I love Squidoo!

Yes, I do!

I love Squidoo!

How 'bout you?

I love you Squidoo, for many reasons, one of my favorite reasons is the quality time I spend with my son. He’s 8 and he loves Squidoo too! He loves to help me create lenses, and he loves to check out the lenses others make. Here are a couple of the lenses he helped me create:
Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Currently his favorite game.

Bee Movie He helped me find the trailers, and photos for the lens.

Top Animated Children’s Movies of 2007 He helped me with the trailers, and gave me his opinion, since we've seen most of these movies.

Top Animated Children’s Movies of 2007 He's a regular viewer, he loves to check out the trailers, and the official websites.

He helps pick out the videos, games, photos and everything else that goes into creating the lenses. We have a great time creating lenses. Thinking about all of this gave me inspiration, if my son loves Squidoo so much why wouldn’t every child? There are so many great children related lenses out there, why not set up a group just for lenses children would love. So I set up the Fun For Kids Group Headquarters.

It’s a brand new group featuring lenses that will inspire children, be fun for children, or interact with children. The internet is a scary place for children, and this group will give them a great place to come check out lenses, without the fear of ending up on a site with adult content.

I’m hoping this group will offer the opportunity for other parents to fall in love with Squidoo with their children.

By the way here are some other lenses my son loves, check them out with your children if you get a chance.


Hobby Robots, Got Yours?
He loves to look at the Lego Robots, and dream over which one he wants next.
The Star Wars Lego Universe He loves the Star Wars lego line, and loves to look at the video.

Transformers 2007 Movie He loved this movie, and he loves all the bright photos and links here.

How (and where)To Sing- This lens has great links to online karaoke sites, and my son love so sing. We marked this in my favorites, so we can find it whenever we want to belt out a song.

There are a million more reasons why I love you Squidoo, but the quality time you give me with my son, is the dearest to my heart.

Thank You Squidoo!