Comfortdoc on Squidoo

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.

We’re All Winners – Mini Presentation

I was hoping with the new Squidtop, that I might be able to share a new Mini Presentation that I developed for the We’re All Winners page. Unfortunately it appears that the Squidoo ban on embedding objects extends to Squidtop.

The We’re All Winners mini presentation is available for viewing on .docstoc.

We’re All Winners

“We’re All Winners” was developed when my daughters were in preschool as an educational activity to let young children:

Enjoy and have fun being physically active
Participate in a non-racing, solo running activity
Experience the elation of winning

The main goal of the event is to create an environment in which each child gets to feel special, like a winner.

Each child goes home feeling and believing for at least one day that

“I’m a Winner!”

A Lens at Last for the Squidoo Charity Fund

I finally got tired of looking for a resource on the Squidoo Charity Fund every time I created a charity lens, so I pulled together the available resources that I could find and created a lens for the Squidoo Charity Fund – Donate Your Squidoo Lens Royalties.

In case you don’t know the Squidoo Charity Fund was created for lensmasters who want to donate their royalties to charity, but can’t decide where to send them.

Charity Idea Virus

I caught the Squidoo Charity Idea virus* soon after joining Squidoo a year ago 2007 and began making lenses that benefit different causes. After catching the Giving Back Virus, I’ve gone on to create lenses that benefit many other charities, but always giving at least 10% back on each lens to the Squidoo Charity Fund.

SquidAid

In October 2007, the Southern California Fires hit my home state. The California Fires were the first natural disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina.

Watching the news footage and by then a Giant Squid, I had the idea to harness the power of Squidoo to create lenses that could benefit the survivors. That idea turned into SquidAid.

A One Woman Charity Machine

I am honored to have had many of my lenses be the recipients of Janusz All4Care Awards both in 2007 and in 2008. I was recently been dubbed by Bonnie a.k.a. bdkz as “Squidoo’s One Woman Charity Machine!” and “a huge inspiration to the Squidoo Community.”

Make a lens or two or three to benefit the Squidoo Charity Fund. You’ll be glad you did.

Be sure to vote for the Squidoo Charity Fund on Lensroll.

_________

* According to Seth: An Idea Virus is a viable commercial concept set loose among those who are most likely to catch it, become infected and pass it on to others who might do the same.

Comfortdoc Notes: Sidebar Widgets

I’m having fun customizing the Sidebar Widgets on Comfortdoc on Squidoo.

The Widgets I was able to find available for use were (listed alphabetically):

Amazon Shwcs. 1 (Allows you to feature Amazon Products)
Archives
Calendar
Links (Blogroll)
Meta
Pages (Links to permanent Blog pages)
Recent Comments
Recent Posts
Recent Projects (Maybe the Recent Tags ?)
RSS
Search
Social Bookmarks
Tag Cloud
Top Commentators

The Widgets I decided to use, in the order listed were:

Recent Posts
Archives
Calendar
Recent Comments
Blogroll
RSS to My Top Lenses
Search
Meta
Tag Cloud
Social Networks
Recent Tags
Popular Tags

It looks like the widgets give us a lot of options for customizing the blog. I’d probably like to see being able to add our avatar, add an image and add HTML code (list where the blog is indexed).

Maybe this will go on the wish list.

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.

I’ve just joined Squidtop!

It looks like this is going to be a great way to ‘help showoff their newest lenses, and brag about their Squidoo progress.”

Congrats to Loyalis et al. on another great Squidoo product.

Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification