Hip Contests, Cool Prizes
Happy Belated Valentine’s Day! Thank you to everyone who commented on the newsletter last week. We’re very excited to have it up and running again, and your questions and suggestions will help us write useful articles for the future.
What’s on the docket for this week’s newsletter?
1. Make Your Pet Famous Contest—Results!
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3. Hip Contests on Squidoo
4. Fun Statistic of the Week
5. Lensmaster Interview
In honor of Valentine’s Day, Squidoo is sponsoring the Share the Love project to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. We at Squidoo believe that the best way to celebrate someone you admire is to create a lens in their honor! Come see how fellow lensmasters are honoring their favorite people in their lives, and get ideas for your own lens. It’s a free and highly viral way to show someone how much you care. A little better than a flower arrangement, and this one lasts (and keeps giving back) forever.
http://www.squidoo.com/sharethelove/hq
Keep sharing the love!
~Kimberly Dawn Wells
Editor of the SquidU Review
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1. Make Your Pet Famous Contest, sponsored by ASPCA
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The results are in, and this month three lucky pets are getting some special attention from readers all over the world. Alistair (the cat of many hats), and dogs Indigo and Frankie are basking in the glow of superstardom as their lenses were awarded the top prize for February 2007’s Make Your Pet Famous Contest, sponsored by the ASPCA.
What opportunities will this new attention provide them with? Movie deals? Recording contracts? Prime sleeping territory at the foot of the bed? One thing is for sure - these pets are loved! Hop, wiggle, or stalk over to the ASPCA Headquarters on Squidoo to learn more about over 680 unique and loveable pets that are sure to melt your heart.
http://www.squidoo.com/aspca/hq.
PS: If your pet’s lens didn’t win, don’t fret! Each month the ASPCA will be selecting three new lenses to spotlight. Didn’t create a lens yet? It isn’t too late to get started.
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2. Three Ways to Win with Links
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The links module is one of the most popular modules on Squidoo, but did you know you’re no longer limited to a static list? That’s right! With the addition of the Links Plexo module, you now have a chance to get creative with how you manage and display your links.
1. Play Favorites
Links Plexo allows you to hand-pick your favorite links and let others vote them up or down. It’s an easy way to share only what you want to and still let visitors have a say.
2. A Little Help from your Friends
Maybe you know where to find all the best websites for golf courses in Florida but need a little help finding courses in Georgia. By letting visitors add their own links, you’re a lens-making superstar and they get to show off their smarts.
3. Share
Looking for a fun way to share Squidoo? Look no further than Plexo! Each of the Plexo modules has a special sharing feature, so you can easily spread your fame all over the Internet. Just allow visitors to ‘share it’ and they’ll be able to grab your list and post it on their own site, blog or lens. You still control the content, and the widget links back to your site.
For each of the options above, you’ll need to make a few simple choices. When you edit your Links Plexo module, four tabs at the bottom of the module editor help you decide who gets access to which features. Go ahead, play around with it. You might come up with a fabulous new way to use Plexo!
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3. Hip Contests on Squidoo
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Many lensmasters are using Squidoo to run fun contests on people, places, ideas, and thingamabobs. Below are a few for you to visit. Have an idea of your own? Visit the SquidU Forum and post the details in our Challenges and Contests thread.
Everything Photography Lens of the Month
http://www.squidoo.com/groups/everythingphotography
Social Networker’s Challenge
http://www.squidoo.com/groups/socialmarketing101
People’s Choice Awards
http://www.squidoo.com/peopleschoice
Favorite Graphic Novels Lens
http://www.squidoo.com/groups/books
Anything Art Jigsaw Puzzle Challenge
http://www.squidoo.com/groups/AnythingArt
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4. Fun Statistics of the Week
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Did you know that 50 of the world’s smartest nonprofits met with Seth this week to learn more about Org 2.0 (that’s “web 2.0†for nonprofits)? Did you know that nearly half of all lensmasters are donating some of their royalties to charity? Squidoo makes it simple to help those in need. Consider creating a lens for your favorite charity!
Read more at: http://www.squidoo.com/blog/?p=121
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5. Lensmaster Profile
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This week lensmaster and resident happy-man Lewis Smile interviews fellow lensmaster Sanjay Agrawal. Sanjay is a self-development enthusiast with a love for Squidoo and an extensive list of blogging and forum moderator projects.
How does he describe Squidoo? “Lensmasters come from all over the globe, and bring with them the diversity that human race is made up of. You will something unique in each of the lenses on Squidoo.”
Get the full interview here:
http://www.squidu.com/Profiles/sanjay-agrawal
