Lensmaster GramaBarb Interview

Squidoo Lens Reviews: What makes you passionate about Squidoo.com?


GramaBarb: It is the freedom to write and express my feelings about the joys and responsibility of being a Grandmother. The freedom to create a shopping mall. The freedom to create. The freedom to spread your wings and fly because I can link and include my other web sites too.


Squidoo Lens Reviews: Is Squidoo perfect already or what could make it better?


GramaBarb: No it is not perfect. What I would really like to see is the text module to open up like a mini word processor like it does in most emails or when you post in Blogger for example. I would like a little tool bar to run across the top of the text module - it would save so much time to have the basics there.


Squidoo Lens Reviews: What inspires you to make a new lens?


GramaBarb: Life! I am a genealogist so I get many ideas from history. I am a nature lover - so all things nature inspire me. For example after watching a nature show that included the snub-nosed monkey - I was so impressed I had to make a lens about it.


Squidoo Lens Reviews: How many lenses do you have?


GramaBarb: 170 (one in WIP until about tomorrow) but my goal is to have 200


Squidoo Lens Reviews: What is your most popular lens?


GramaBarb: They constantly change according to the season. But my very first lens continues to stay in the top 5 for 3 years (and it has been 35 days in the top 100) - A Grandmother's Love - plus it sums up who I am.


Squidoo Lens Reviews: What one sentence or one word describes your success?


GramaBarb: Never give up.


Squidoo Lens Reviews: What should a newbie do first?


GramaBarb: Read FAQ. Read a few 'how to squidoo' lenses. Then just start building - you can't break anything and you can edit later.


Squidoo Lens Reviews: Which of your lenses do you want to make sure the whole world knows about?


GramaBarb: The A Grandmother's Love and others in the Grandma series [check her lensmaster bio for others in the series -- link below] because families need their grandmothers and grandmothers need to feel loved for their contribution to everyone's life.


Barb aka GramaBarb


Postscript from GramaBarb : I am very fortunate to have a loving, supportive family but I live a place where there are many grandparents that are forgotten by their family and most of their friends have died. It is very sad.