thefluffanutta’s burps

Back in June, Squidoo added themes for lenses. This week, they’ve added 2 more! Perfect for any Christmas lenses.

You can preview these themes using the Squidoo Toolbar or the Theme Switcher lens.

Christmas Theme

Winter Holiday Theme

Here’s a quick recap of some of the new tools and modules that have been recently created for Squidoo Lensmasters:

• 3 new modules, allowing you to add star ratings, bookmarks and ClickBank Ads to your lens.
• The browser toolbar now has easy access to these modules (it will update automatically)
• The Lens Workshop Addon for Firefox has also been updated (if you already have it, install the latest version)
• Squidoo HQ release a new Twitter mashup: TwttrList – see my example collection of space tweets.

Don’t forget to subscribe to the SquidUtils blog and follow me on twitter for the latest toys for Lensmasters.

thefluffanutta

If you’re looking for support, answers or just a place to swap ideas, come to the Squidoo Chat Room.

Hosted by Captain Squid, this is an ideal location to meet and interact with other Lensmasters. You don’t need any software, and you don’t need to sign up for anything – just enter your Lensmaster name and dive right in!

I’ve just completed building a series of lenses for a client, based on articles they wrote about finding jobs in information technology:

• Top 10 IT Jobs and Salaries
• The Effect of Gas Prices on the Tech Job Market
• The Changing Job Market IT Opportunities
• Downsizing – How to position yourself for new or existing IT Jobs
• Building a Resume

I also built some hubs on the same topics for them.

I have just released a bunch of new tools for Lensmasters:

• • Lens Health-Check Tool (read these excellent tips on how to use it)
  • Amazon RSS Feeds (tool updated, and easier to use)
  • Fanclub Widget (show off how many fans you have)
  • Table Generator (the easy way to make tables for your lenses)
  • Squidoo Enhanced (addon for Firefox that improves the Lens Workshop)

For the full details, read » New Tools for Lensmasters.

I discovered Squidoo Kingdom -Â where you can submit your lenses, and is quite similar to Lensroll.com.

Searching for Squidoo lenses on a search engine can be a real pain sometimes, as the results are very often filled with non-content pages like tags. Here are two custom search engines that are optimised to only return the searches that you actually want.

» How To Find Squidoo Lenses and Groups

Here are some Pipes that will provide a list of your lenses in various forms:

• All SquidCasts by Lensmaster
• Lenses Sorted by Last Update
• Lenses Filtered by Category
• Lenses Filtered by Keyword

New post: Relevance is Key when it comes to building your lens.

Guest post: How To Use the Lensroll Feature

Last Week’s Blog Post: How To Put Amazon Affiliate Links on Squidoo from the SquidUtils Blog.

Discover the 7 Secrets of Squidoo

Find out more about me on my Lensography …