What Exactly Is Squidoo?

Congratulations to Lensmaster Charlyjl for her response to last Saturday's Question Of The Week. And a big thank you to all respondents for taking on the challenge: Charlyjl, RickyRobi, aj2008, and Joan4.


Here are Charly's lenses to date:

• A Brighter Future with LED Lighting


• Aeroplane Jelly


• Affiliate Marketing - is it worth the trouble?


• Affiliate Marketing: Affiliate Management Networks


• Amazing Striped Icebergs


• Article Marketing - Increase Sales & Traffic In 10 Days Or Less


• Aussie Rock Legend: John Farnham


• Aussie Rock Legends: Jimmy Barnes (Cold Chisel)


• Australia Christmas Carols


• Boomer Women: Rediscover Your Dream


• Border Collies


• Border Collies Puppies: Caring For


• Bushfire: Australia, Canberra 2003


• Charly Leetham


• Charly Leetham: 25 Things


• Christmas Cards You Can Make


• Content Generation For Websites


• Creating A Wordpress Membership Site


• Custom Stuff


• Everything Twilight


• Exit Splash!


• Free and Inexpensive Business Cards and Stationery


• Free Entertainment Giveaway


• Free Full Version Game Downloads


• Great Christmas Movies


• Great Wordpress Plugins


• Great Wordpress Themes


• Grumpy Old Women


• How to Unlock the Region Coding on your DVD Player


• I Love My Hugh Jackman


• Johnny Cash - Man In Black


• Make Your Home Electrically Safer


• Managing Stress


• Modern Ballroom Dancing


• My City: Canberra, Australia


• My Kids, My Friends


• Potty Training


• Rhiannon Is 13!


• Romance Books


• Sci-Fi Books, Movies and Stuff!


• Smoke Detectors: Save Lives


• Squidoo CSS Tricks: Images and Bullets


• Stop Smoking in 28 days or less


• Successful Parenting


• Teaching Your Kids Squidoo


• The High Lord By Trudi Canavan


• The Sales Funnel


• Top 10 Ways To Annoy Mom....


• Understanding Search Engine Optimization


• Use Broken Solar Cells To Create Solar Panels


• Using RSS To Increase Readership and Backlinks


• Valentines Day - Traditions And Gifts


• Vegemite - The Australian Favorite


• Victor Borge


• We love Firefly


• What Have You Done To 'Pay It Forward' Today?


• Wine Lovers Guide


• World Internet Summit 2008


• Worth More Than Rubies by Kathie Thomas


• Writing A Sales Letter...


• You'll Never Walk Alone

Here is Charly's winning response

Squidoo will mean different things to different people. What Squidoo means to each person will differ depending on how they found Squidoo in the first place, their motives for becoming a lensmaster (or even a reader) and their experiences on Squidoo to date.

I believe that each persons perception of Squidoo will evolve as their experiences within the Squidoo community and in the wider online world evolves.

Squidoo is an online content site that allows smaller, niche communities to form.

Squidoo is a community in its own right as well - where people who like to share information and experiences gather and communicate.

Squidoo is not only a great place to gather and 'meet' and get to know other people, it is also an excellent way to:

1. Credential yourself as an expert in your niche if you want

2. Use to generate traffic to other websites (your own or others)

3. Use to generate income through the creation of your content pages

4. Share information about happenings in your niche. This information can help others learn, serve as warnings against some of the 'not so nice' elements out there, or just be a bit of fun.

Personally, I have found it a great place to encourage my youngsters to explore the online world, create information and improve their written and research skills.

I have also found it to be an excellent outlet for the 'frustrated writer' inside me.

Squidoo is also incredibly socially responsible - offering the ability for lensmasters to 'pay it back' by contributing to charity (but not demanding it).

Squidoo also allows for Lensmasters to mould the community by becoming involved in the forum and other positions like Squid Organizers, Squid Angels and Squid Greeters... what a great thing to do - allow your community to dictate how they want their environment to look.

Squidoo is totally awesome and each of us should enjoy where 'we are at' at the time and enjoy the journey.