Comfortdoc on Squidoo

I am happy to announce that I’ve been chosen to join the Squid Angels. Being a Squid Angel comes with a great deal of responsibility.

The job of the Squid Angels is two-fold:

1. Blessing Lenses – To find the best of the best Squidoo lenses to bless (and help their rankings go up).
2. Cleaning up Spam – To keep the top 100 lenses free of junk and spam (and help their rankings go down).

I take the duty of being a newly appointed Squid Angel seriously. You can follow along with the Squid Angel Blessings Log (Blog) lens that I’ve created to monitor the lenses that I’ve blessed during my term as a Squid Angel. See the other existing Angels and the rest of the new angels on my Blessings Log lens.

You can see the type of lenses that I have determined are bless worthy and the list of criteria I plan to use when looking for lenses to bless.

I am likely to adopt the mode of stealth angel, slipping in when you least expect it to bless a worthy lens.

World AIDS Day 1999 – 2008

AIDS has already killed more than 25 million people world-wide since it was first recognized in 1981. World AIDS Day is a day to focus attention on this pandemic that is affecting more than 33 million people around the world.

NIDA and AIDS.gov worked with Bloggers Unite to encourage bloggers to blog on December 1 on AIDS. Working together, everyone can reduce the stigma of this pandemic through words, voices and actions.

Focus on Prevention. Know Your HIV Status.

Since there is still no cure yet for HIV/AIDS the best thing to do is to focus on prevention and knowing your HIV Status. A unique campaign has been developed using text messaging to promote HIV testing.

Mobile phone users can send a text message with their zip code to “KNOWIT” (566948). Within seconds, they will receive a text message identifying an HIV testing site near them. This mobile phone service connects users with CDC’s testing database found at www.HIVtest.org.

Find out more about World AIDS Day at 20, 1988 – 2000.

The We Can Solve It lens was judged to by the community to be the winning Giant Squid Community Showcase Lens for the week.

According to the blog,

This weeks winning lens in the Choose Your Favorite Giant Lens Contest is We Can Solve It by Comfortdoc. The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection and Kirsti has done an amazing job showcasing this charity.

Her lens includes numerous videos that champion the environment, I especially like the one from Al Gore. The We Can Solve it lens donates to the Squidoo Charity Fund, Global Giving and Earthjustice.

Thanks guys for helping spread the word.

In addition, “We Can Solve It” was the one of the recipients of the Squids Choice Award for the Month of July where the theme was “Going Green” along with my other green related lens Save Energy – You Have the Power.

I was surprised to see that I currently have three lenses in the top four at the top of the SquidFlix, the Squidoo co-branding that allows you to critique, review and rate movies.

My top SquidFlix lenses are

1. Ever After – A Cinderella Story
2. Mamma Mia! The Movie
4. We love Disney’s Enchanted

Mamma Mia will be coming out on Friday. I can hardly wait.

Top of Non-Profit

I also happened to discover that my SuperHero lens on Amy Jaffe Barzach and the Boundless Playgrounds is the Number 1 in topic for Non-Profits.

Now that all of the SuperHero lenses have been submitted for the challenge, you have a change to vote for your favorite SuperHero Lenses.

Winning Lensmasters will get to display a cool SuperHero “Favorite” Badge to display on their Superhero lenses. It is a way to recognize all of the hard work that the lensmasters put into the SuperHero Challenge.

Voting for your favorite SuperHero will be kept open for one week after the SuperHero Challenge ends on July 1, 2008.

You have until July 8, 2008 to Vote for your favorite SuperHero lens.

Giant Squid Discovered at IKEA

When we were at IKEA yesterday, my daughter’s came running up to find me…they were very excited to discover a Giant Squid Office set up.

With a desk on one wall and the Giant Squid, Dresser, Storage and Lights on another, my family decided that this would be the perfect environment for me to work on my Squidoo stuff.

Too bad the Giant Squid wasn’t for sale.

Welcome to Comfortdoc on Squidoo.

I’ve setup the Squidtop blog to keep you posted on the Latest New Lenses, News Updates and Notes from Comfortdoc / Lensdoc.

Squidtop looks like it is going to be a great new addition to the tools available to Squidoo lensmasters to help get the word out about new lenses and updates to our lenses.

A big thanks to Loyalis et al. on another developing another great Squidoo resource for the lensmasters.

News Updates

Learning about blogging and the blogosphere is one of my goals for the summer. I’ve been actively blogging on two blogs this month, both of which had challenges.

The first is Ruminations of an Online Instructor / MD, the edublog that I set up in April, which thankfully is also in Wordpress, so I’m familiar with the format.

The second is My Green Doc Blog that I set up in honor of Earth Day.

I’ll be posting updates and new lenses as they become available.