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Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore debut their Celebrity Pledge today on the Oprah Winfrey Show featuring more than 50 celebrities making a pledge from Eva Longoria Parker pledging to “plant 500 trees this year to help our planet,” or Diddy pledging to “turn off the lights” to Josh Groban pledging his support of the arts.

They hope to encourage everyone to take the pledge and support in coming President Barack Obama. As Ashton wrote in their press release:

“The Presidential Pledge is a platform for people across the nation and throughout the world to make a first-person commitment of service to our new president, articulating a specific intent or action to become an agent of positive change.”

Watch the video at The Presidential Pledge lens, join the pledge to serve all mankind and decide what you will do to help the president and be the change that we seek.

I pledge to be a servant to our president and all mankind.

Because together we can.

Together we are.

Together we will be the change that we seek.

The Presidential Pledge

Then post What’s Your Pledge? on the Presidential Pledge lens.

I had a lot of fun creating this 15 Squid Gifts lens. The lens was an idea that I came up with to celebrate lens # 100, but didn’t get it completed until I reached lens # 200.

Christmas Gifts for Squidoo Lensmasters and Squid Lovers was created:

First to honor reaching lens #200
Second to benefit Planet Gumbo and
Third and entry for the Month of Thanks Challenge.

If you have someone on your holiday list that is a Squidoo lensmaster or a Squid lover, there are 15 different categories of holiday squid gifts on the Christmas Gifts for Squidoo Lensmasters and Squid Lovers. You are sure to find something to please your favorite lensmaster or Squid Lover.

Just yesterday it was announced that Squidoo is going to give away up to $80,000 to charity by October 15, 2008.

The money has been collected by saving up 5% of their total income and now they are asking for your help in giving some of it away!

Anyone who visits The $80,000 Squidoo Charity Giveaway lens has a chance to decide which of the many deserving Charities and NonProfit partners will benefit.

Here are the rules.

• Each vote counts as a $2.00 donation to the charity.
• Each person can only vote once for your Squidoo partner charities, in the poll on The $80,000 Squidoo Charity Giveaway lens page.

Vote for your favorite charity, but pick carefully. You can only vote once.

You can encourage your friends to vote also.

Vote soon. Once they get 40,000 votes, the money will be divided.

I’ve updated two lenses related to different types of activities occurring in the month of September.

Remember September Mail Art Project

The Remember September Mail Art Project is now in it’s seventh year of remembering those who had died on September 11, 2001.

This creative, commemorative mail art project was developed by Gail Ellspermann in 2002.

Through the use of art, participants are encouraged to express their feelings and reflect on the September 11th attacks, the heroes, the victims, their patriotism and how everyone’s lives had changed. This project is an excellent example of using creativity to cope with a major life changing event.

Find out more about the project, see some of the examples and discover how to participate in the project and make your own mail art on the lens page.

Steptember

September is America On the Move’s national month long celebration highlighting the benefits of active living and healthy eating. Steptember is A Celebration of Being Active and Healthy Eating.

The goal of Steptember is to get everyone to experience how small, simple changes can add up to a healthier lifestyle and healthy weight for life.

Find out how you can get involved with Steptember on the lens.

Image Source: Remember September 2004. Collection of Submissions.

Take a trip back in time. Relive the memory of Freddie Mercury and Queen in the Freddie Mercury and Queen – The Virtual Concert on Squidoo. The lens was created to
to raise money for two HIV / AIDS Awareness organizations, the AIDS Research Alliance and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

What is a Virtual Concert?

The Squidoo Activists are raising money again this time it is a Virtual Concert Series. This is the second fundraising event for charity sponsored by the Squidoo Activists.

Pick a Group, Pick a Charity
Stage a Virtual Concert

In this week-long event, lensmasters are encourage to create a Virtual Concert lens by their favorite musicians and musical acts, for their favorite charity or charities.

The deadline for entering has been extended to August 3. Winning Lens will be the Lens of the Day on Monday.

Find out more about making your Virtual Concert lens by visiting the Virtual Concert Week on Squidoo lens.

Once you’ve made your lens, be sure to submit it to the Virtual Concert Series Group.

Music to Raise Money = A Good Time By All

As I’ve been waiting for Mamma Mia to open on Friday, I decided that it might be fun to create a lens on how to Host a Mamma Mia Party. It’s a way for some of us who are a bit older to have some fun with this movie and escape for a bit to Greece in a romantic musical comedy.

In her blog, Anne Thompson noted that “this exuberant Greek Island romantic musical will play great to aging boomers looking to get away from the real world.” Mamma Mia is an escapist fantasy musical for these dark times. I know that I am looking forward to escaping for a few hours.

While I think that planning and throwing a Mamma Mia Party may be more popular once it is available as a DVD, there is still potential for pre-movie premiere Mamma Mia Parties.

The Themes that I came up with are:

Mamma Mia Come as You Are Party
Mamma Mia Visit the Greek Isles Party
Mamma Mia Wedding Party
Mamma Mia Dance Party
Mamma Mia Retro Disco Party
Mamma Mia Early ABBA Party
Mamma Mia Classy ABBA Party

I will probably be doing the Mamma Mia Come as You Are Party theme for Friday’s premiere since it will be the easiest one to do with the girls. Later in the week when we head up to the lake to let them play on the beach we might try a Mamma Mia Visit the Greek Isles Party and pack along the soundtrack.

I am pleased to announce that I achieved the coveted Giant Squids 100 or Giant The 100 Club status on Squidoo.

In order to qualify for the Giant Squid 100 Club you have to have 100 lenses judged to be high-quality by the Squidoo Team and the Giant Squid Team.

The Giant Squids are the elite squad of the best and most prolific lensmasters on Squidoo.

Thanks to all for the honor.

Here is my final list of SuperHero Lenses, along with the Charity of my choice. The lenses are listed in alphabetical order.

Bono
Benefiting – One – http://www.one.org/

The Elders
Benefiting The Global Elders – http://www.theelders.org or the Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/).

Al Gore
Benefiting We Can Solve It! – http://www.wecansolveit.org/

Yoko Ono
Benefiting Instant Karma: Amnesty Internationals Campaign to Save Darfur – http://www.instantkarma.org/InstantKarma.html

Dr. Randy Pausch
Benefiting – Professor Randy Pausch Honorary Fund at Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/giving/pausch.shtml

Patricia Quigley and Susan Retik 9/11 Widows Live Beyond the 11th
Benefiting – Beyond the 11th – http://www.beyondthe11th.org/

Christopher Reeve – Superman, SuperHero & Super Human Being
Benefiting the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation – http://www.christopherreeve.org/

Sadako Sasaki
Benefiting – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – http://www.wagingpeace.org/

Mattie Stepanek
Benefiting – Muscular Dystrophy Association – http://www.mda.org/

Marianne Williamson
Benefiting – The Peace Alliance – Campaign for a Department of Peace – http://www.thepeacealliance.org/

It’s been a lot of fun creating the various lenses to highlight even more of the people and/or organizations that I admire.

The countdown is on for the Squidoo Superhero Project.

You have until July 1st to make and submit your SuperHero lenses.

The Challenge: Make 5 lenses about 5 of your everyday superheroes.

The Prize: $500 for Your Favorite Charity

The 5 most sincere, creative, well-written lenses will be selected by a panel of lensmasters to win $500 each to the charity of your choice.

Deadline: July 1, 2008.

Eligibility: Make 5 lenses using the SuperHero Template for the Squidoo Charity Fund. Proceeds for the lens need to be set at 100% for the Squidoo Charity Fund.

To Enter: Submit your best 5 Superhero lenses in by July 1st 2008 by emailing them to superheroes-at-squidoo.com.

The Perks:

Winners will also get a spot as Lens of the Day.

Winners will also be judged by the Community on the Squidoo SuperHero Project Lens and awarded a Squidoo SuperHero Favorite Badge.

I decided to have a bit more fun with the SuperHero Project so more lenses and lensmasters could be recognized for their SuperHero Lenses.

At the Squidoo SuperHero Project Lens I’ve set up set up several voting link Plexo’s in different categories. Visitors and Lensmasters can vote for your favorite SuperHero Lenses.

Winning lensmasters in each category will get this cool SuperHero Badge to display on their lenses. In the event of a tie, both lenses will be dubbed Winners.

Voting for your favorite SuperHero will be kept open for one week after the SuperHero Challenge, so until July 8, 2008.

Note: Only lenses created under the SuperHero Template or listed under the official SuperHero lenses will be added to the Plexo lists on the Squidoo SuperHero Project Page.

I’ve also set up the of the Squidoo SuperHero Group as a way to feature all of the great SuperHeroes lenses that have been submitted to the SuperHero Project.