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My name is Damon Hedman. I teach High School math and I want to teach Squidoo! I want to help people utilize the full potential of Squidoo to promote themselves, their business, etc. So if you’re interested sign up for email updates above. (You’ll get a copy of each post as an email.) You can also subscribe to the RSS feed.
Lens Promotion Day 3: Poll Modules
Today I added a poll module to my lens about The Tales of Beedle the Bard. I posted a short introduction to each story and then asked my readers to vote for their favorite. So how does this qualify as lens promotion? I can think of two reasons:
Poll Modules invite participation
The more [...]
Day 2 Promotion: SquidU
Yesterday I posted my lens at SquidU, one of the best places to promote and/or get help with your lens.
If you or your lenses are new
One place to introduce yourself and your lenses is on the New? Introduce Yourself! thread. People are very friendly and most are willing to check out your lenses.
But you [...]
Facebook Followup
Either my Facebook “friends” aren’t interested in my post about The Tales of Beedle the Bard or they’re on summer vacation and away from their computer. I prefer to believe the latter.
So far I have had 2 visits–one of which might have been me. The lensrank is currently 91,326.
The post does still have its advantages. [...]
17 Days of Lens Promotion
I just finished a lens about the latest book by JK Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Over the next 17 days I’m going to experiment with different promotion tactics. Each day I will do something different to promote my lens. I’ll report my methods here and discuss why and how they (should) work. [...]
5Aug2008 | Damon | 0 comments | Continued
Giant Squid Chat
Today I was fortunate enough to participate in a chat with several of the Top100 Giant Squids and Megan, Squidoo’s editor-in-chief. It was very exciting. I felt like I was meeting celebrities.
Every time I interact with Megan or any of the other Giant Squids I am always impressed by their vision and generosity. [...]
How to Deal with Information Overload: Part I
Are you drowning in information? After searching in Google are you amazed that there are 19,345,000 sites about your topic? There is more information online than any one person can ever consume, and it’s only going to get worse. How do you get the information you need without feeling overwhelmed or paralyzed?
Here are [...]
4 Reasons Why You Should Have a Squidoo Lens
I believe that every business should have a Squidoo lens or two, or more.
1. Find New Customers
More and more people are using the internet to find everything from barbers to personal trainers. If you don’t have an internet presence you don’t even have the possibility of connecting with these people. This trend [...]
Why Do You Squidoo?
A lot of people join Squidoo and start making lenses because of the potential to earn a little extra income. I did. Is that the only reason why you Squidoo? I think it’s essential to think about this.
Some people use Squidoo to help promote their charity. Others build lenses to educate [...]
Top 100 Badges
I forgot to mention we have a cool new badge for the Top 100 Giant Squids. Now I need to figure out where/when to use it.
3Jul2008 | Damon | 1 comment | Continued
New Giant Squids
Bonnie just announced the official list of 80 new Giant Squids. It is a very impressive list of lensmasters. I was going to create a lens highlighting each Giants best work but 80 is a little more than I can handle.
I am already familiar with the work of BFuniv.com and Orthia. [...]
Did you know?
As a teacher I am always trying to get my students to see the big picture. I want them to see why the things we do in class are important in the long run. In a math class the important thing to learn is how to approach problems, how to think logically, how [...]
2Jul2008 | Damon | 1 comment | Continued
Hello World
My name is Damon Hedman. I teach High School math but I also want to teach Squidoo! I want to help people utilize the full potential of Squidoo to promote themselves, their charity, their schools, etc. I especially want to help people use Squidoo to help promote their business.
So if you’re interested in [...]
Indeed well noted: the key problem is to quickly find out what information is relevant. Very often summaries and keywords ...
WOAH!
I'm going to try and download that video and put it on my ipod. For safe keeping.
The China statistics are ...
I just want to test whether the Gravatar image shows up.