Hop and Squidoo - Updates

Hello, and welcome fellow Squido Lensmasters! For those who aren't travelling here by blog hop and don't know what Squidoo is, it's just a place where you can make nifty little web pages about any topic you choose, and maybe earn a little money for yourself or a charity in the process.  The hop way to place to share blog posts related to Squidoo (and get help, comments, advice from some great lensmasters). 

Thought I'd hop here today since I have some Texas updates to share, mainly that  I added some summertime and patriotic Texas t-shirts to my Texas T-shirt lens (which currently is benifiting Save the Children...since I donate my portion of the ad revenue and affiliate earnings there).  I also have a shirt lens for California T-shits (which I probably need to update).

I shared recently about my new lens, Nazareth - An Interactive Experience.  This week I made a related lens about how to create Fake Rock Walls.  All the photos were donated by people who had made sets for Nazareth themed Vacation Bible Schools this summer, and I'm so grateful to them!

It's benefiting Save the Children too, and guess what, someone already made a purchase though my one commercial module on that lens (an amazon lens about rock paper)!  What I llike about that (other than extra $ for Save the Children), is that the commercial content blends well with rest of the content. When I posted up the rock wall picture on the Group VBS forum people asked about where I had gotten the rock wall paper, so I knew that it would be useful on the lens too.  

So, how do you feel about the commercial aspects of your lenses (and websites and blogs, for that matter)?  How do you feel about similar commercial sections you encounter on other pages?  Does it contribute to the content?  Does it detract?

What I've Been Up to Lately (And a Squidoo Hop)

You may have noticed I've been rather scarce the last couple months. May is just wonderfully crazy (with my Birthday, our anniversary, Mother's Day, and end of school stuff). But this May and June I was also helping with this...

 

For the last two years for Vacation Bible School our church has been transformed into a Bible land.  Last year it was Egypt, and this year it was Nazareth.  So, I've been busy helping set up, and during VBS played the role of a Nazareth farmer planting seeds (hopefully spiritual as well as physical) with a group of about 80 kids.  It was a blast!

These last couple years I've also taken on the job of doing historical research into the places we've been recreating.  This year I decided to turn that research into a squidoo lens.  You can see my Exploring Nazareth lens here.  

For those who don't know what Squidoo is, it's just a place where you can make nifty little web pages about any topic you choose.  And for those of you traveling here from Marsha's Hop and Squidoo, welcome!   I hope you'll check out my new Nazareth lens and maybe take a stop by my Texifornia lens, too.  :-)

Hop and Squidoo

Hello, and welcome fellow Squido Lensmasters! For those who aren't travelling here by blog hop and don't know what Squidoo is, it's just a place where you can make nifty little web pages about any topic you choose, and maybe earn a little money for yourself or a charity in the process.

And guess what, I have a squidoo for Texifornia.  It has some fun interactive stuff like funny and useful lists you can add to, photos, and more.    

Well, recently it got delisted, which means it doesn't show up in the Squidoo directory anymore :(.  It may be because my lens intro is so short.  They keep asking me to make it longer, but I like it short so people can get right into content without a lot of intro. 

What's your opinion...does a lens intro have to be long to be good?  Or is brief sometimes better?

(Oh, by the way, I'm hopping in from two blogs today...this one, and my other blog Such Fun to Give.)