November 5th, 2008 by annetteghallowell
Well after a break of a month, I found that I needed to do something positive while I sat feeling sick to my stomach waiting for election night results. My newest lenses is: http://www.squidoo.com/michelleobamasstyle
Fashion watchers are always dissecting the clothing choices of our First Lady. I know this lens will have a lot of updates!
Tags: fashion, first lady Michelle Obama, michelle obama's style
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October 5th, 2008 by annetteghallowell
My lens: http://www.squidoo.com/womenagainstsarahpalin is in the top 100 in the news category and at 2845 overall!
Now if I could figure out a way to get my other lens: http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvivalchecklist noticed! It is a bit of frustration for me as I have joined groups, announced it on SquidU, tried hard with my keywords. There is obviously something I am missing. I know this is a great resource as the friends that have seen it with kids in the process of preparing for the college visits have let me know.
So what do you do when you know you have a great lens and nobody comes to visit??
Tags: college visit planning, college visit survival, Women against Sarah Palin
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September 13th, 2008 by annetteghallowell
Well, I just published my 5th lens. It will either resonate with women or not depending on their views. The lens was born of a letter I received a week ago asking women who are not for Sarah Palin to write and tell their story. A week later, 100,000 women have added their voice. I felt the opposing voices deserve to be heard as well.
On a second note. Can anyone tell me the difference between a page and a post? Might sound silly, but this newbie is a bit confused.
Have a great week y’all. Hope everyone in the south is staying dry.
Tags: my 5th lens, Women against Sarah Palin
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August 26th, 2008 by annetteghallowell
OK I am trying this again. I was so proud of myself when I finally finished my new lens: http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvivalchecklist that I thought I had posted it but it is not showing up in the next posting. I am trying again. If it finally shows up, chalk it up to enthusiasm! Please visit and leave comments. I think this is a lens that can really help make college visits worthwhile so I am hoping the word gets out!
Tags: college visit survival, college visits, lens
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August 24th, 2008 by annetteghallowell
Well I had to put myself right in the middle of my lens-http://www.squidoo.com/dormroomdecorating. Last Sunday was packing day. Monday we went down to the school and spent the night to help with the stress of move in day. Tuesday was move in at school. Everything fit and having a plan made it much easier. I did learn and add to the lens that we still needed to buy a few things when we were there. And in the end, I took a picture of the finished space!
I also got a nice letter from Bonnie at Squidoo saying that she likes my lenses and introduced me to some Giant Squid links. It was great validation for a newbie. I would LOVE to have 50 lenses by September 30, but unless I get much faster, that isn’t going to happen. I do have 11 lenses under construction in various stages.
My question for you is, how many lenses to you have under construction at one time? Are you a one at a time person, or do you start them when you have that flash of inspiration? And, do you think one way is better than another?
Tags: 50 lenses, dorm room decorating, Giant Squid, what is better working on one lens at a time or multipl
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August 8th, 2008 by annetteghallowell
I am learning a lot more lessons from making my lens: http://www.squidoo.com/30minuteslens than I expected.
- In terms of what people are interested in, I have had 3 times the visitors to this lens than my first two lenses.
- In terms of what it takes to make a great lens, I learned that quality is related to time.
- I learned that a lot of people feel the same way I did, wondering why they couldn’t make a lens in such a short time.
- I learned that posting in Critique me at SquidU has had a huge number of views vs. my first two critique me postings.
- I learned that getting people to try the experiment is harder than it seems.
- I learned that getting people to leave a comment, especially in answer to the questions I posed is even harder.
So how can I take the lessons I learned to make better lenses and more popular lenses?
My new question is this: Do you make lenses for the purpose of informing or do you make a lens because you know it will be popular? Or, have you found a happy medium?
Tags: , 30 minute lens experiment, lenses, lessons I have learned, SquidU
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August 5th, 2008 by annetteghallowell
OK- Today I decided to try my hand at a 30 minute lens. Frankly I didn’t think it was possible for me, but somehow I managed! I found that I was holding my breath a lot and probably wasted a lot of time looking at the clock as I really wanted to be at exactly 30 minutes. Drum roll please…….http://www.squidoo.com/30minuteslens
I posted at Squid U and said that I learned it is possible, but I feel a lot of content is missing. I posted the question, “What lenses do you feel are absolutely necessary in a 30 minute lens?” So I ask you as well….
Also, I will create a lens link for any other 30 minute lenses! Come on by and say hi!
Tags: 30 minute lens, can you make a 30 minute lens?
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August 2nd, 2008 by annetteghallowell
First of all, thanks for the advice not to unmax my lens! I think it has a lot to do with the fact that as of this morning, http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvival is #38 in Family and #800 overall! Wow! My second lens is now at #434 overall but only #11732 overall.
So what it shows me, is that the lenses about making better lenses really do help. I have spent a lot of time at SquidU, I have made it a point to visit at least 20 new lenses a day as well. I still have to work on the backlinking. Both lenses were accepted at Isle of Squid, but when I try to add the coding to my lenses, the whole text is underlined which looks lousy. I want to backlink this blog as well.
Any helpful hints how to do linking well and where to add backlinks within the lens?
Happy Saturday Y’all!
Tags: dorm buying, Lens in the top 100 for family, perfect college, ranking, squidoo
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July 27th, 2008 by annetteghallowell
My first lens: http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvival has left its formerly great rank and is rapidly slipping backward. Just in time for me to announce my newest lens: http://www.squidoo.com/dormroomdecorating.
Any help, input, additional ideas for promoting this would be great since it will be current only for the next month as kids get ready to leave for college.
Time to get busy on my next lens: College Visit Survival!
Tags: dorm room decorating, searching for the perfect college, shopping
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July 26th, 2008 by annetteghallowell
I was just visiting SquidU and found a topic about changing the look of your lens. I found out how to UnMax a lens so I have done it. If anyone would be so kind as to take a look and let me know if they like the look, it would be most appreciated!
http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvival
Tags: SquidU, UnMax, updated lens
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