Comfortdoc on Squidoo

This was the question that I set out to answer in the Ways to Recycle Campaign Signs lens.

I was going to blog this week for My Green Doc Blog, but a post by Bonnie on the So You Want To Be A Giant Squid? blog spurred me on to create an entire lens.

You can view the lens and the other blog post, 12 Ways to Recycle or Reuse a Campaign Sign.

This lens benefits Heifer International and a Month of Thanks Challenge.

Image Source: Laura Hertzfeld. Obama Signs. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved.

I am equally pleased to announce that also on Friday September 19, 2008 the  Blankets for Soldiers and Veterans lens was selected as the top lens in the My Good Deed for 9/11 Charity Challenge and announced on the Squidoo Activists Blog, We are Changing the World.

Blankets for Soldiers and Veterans lens benefits Soldiers’ Angels and their different Blanket Projects. There are three different types of blankets:

Blanket of Hope - for those who have been wounded.
Blanket of Belief - for those who are currently serving.
Blanket of Gratitude - for our veterans who have already served.

If you can sew, knit, crochet consider getting involved and making one of these special gifts for those who serve, or those who have served.

Solders’ Angels even offer an option of a no sew kit, for those who don’t feel very creative or donating directly to Soldiers’ Angels.

Think about the soldiers who may be facing a Holiday season without loved ones and do what you can to participate in the Blankets for Soldiers programs. You can also donate directly to Soldiers’ Angels on the lens. If you know any crafters, pass on the information to them.

Image Source: © LawnDart. Permission granted to use this image or derivatives thereof to advertise for Soldiers’ Angels.

You can do something good today and Join the Squidoo Activist My Good Deed Charity Challenge for 9/11. It is simple to participate, just make a lens to benefit any of your favorite charities and add it to the My Good Deed Plexo.

My contribution was to create a lens that benefits Dog Tags for Kids, Dog Tags for Kids Link Children with Their Deployed Parents.

Dog Tags for Kids is a nonprofit organization created to show support for the troops and their families. I felt it was an appropriate charity to support, since these families are being separated as a result of 9/11.

Dog Tags for Kids supplying for FREE specially engraved Dog Tags to service members that can be sent home to their children and link their deployed parents.

I used the new Donations Module, so you can make a direction donation to their cause. I tested it out with my own donation from last month’s Squidoo earnings.

The lens also looks at how linking objects or personal symbols can be used to help people cope during times of loss or in this case time of separation.

I am please to report that the Healthy School Fundraisers lens was this week’s Favorite Giant Squid Lens. The lens was developed as one of the lenses for the Squidoo Activist’s Virtual Bake Sale. I was inspired to look for healthier alternatives so did one lens on Healthy School Fundraisers and a second lens on Healthy Bake Sale Options.

Having the Healthy School Fundraisers lens featured is perfect timing with everyone going back to school at the end of the month it is perfect timing for this lens to be featured.

I am hoping that a lot of parents will read through the lens and start “thinking outside of the box” for fundrasiers this year.

Today, August 3 is the last day to enter your Virtual Concert in the Virtual Concert Week Series.

Getting involved is simple:

1. Pick a Group
2. Pick a Charity
3. Stage a Virtual Concert

I’ve got a Virtual Concert lens, now what?

1. Submit your lens to the Virtual Concert Group, the Bands that Give Back and if you are an Activist to the Squidoo Activist Group.
2. Get in touch with a Squidoo Activist and have them submit the lens to Anne.
3. Submit your lens to the Add Your Virtual Concert to the List Plexo (Note that the plexo is a bit wiggy this morning, but add it anyway.)
4. Visit the other Virtual Concerts that other people have created, rate them, favorite them and leave a message.

More about the Virtual Concert Week Contest
The Squidoo Activists are raising money again this time it is a Virtual Concert Series. Find out more about making your Virtual Concert lens by visiting the Virtual Concert Week on Squidoo lens.

Note: If your lens is just published today, you won’t be able to get it added to the Virtual Concert Series Group, but be sure that it gets added tomorrow.

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

A new group was launched this week, the Squidoo Activists. The activists are much like the Giant Squids and the Squid Angels (except we don’t get cool mini graphics next to our names…yet)

The Squidoo Activists grew out of the Squidoo SuperHero Challenge brainstorm of Squidoo’s Non-profit Organizer Extraordinarie, Anne Reidy.

Many of the members were invited to participate as Squidoo Activists because of our participation in the SuperHero Challenge or because they have demonstrated an interest in promoting charity work on Squidoo.

The primary goal of the Squidoo Activists is to do even more for charities using Squidoo.

Visit the Squidoo Activists lens to learn more.