And it's a great lens!

mark

It is a nice lens.

However, I just dont see squidoo being something successful. Dont get me wrong, Seth Godin is a Marketing guru - but I think this one is still having trouble catching on. I have been signed on to squidoo since the very beginning beta phase - and the interface was rather nice - but I think in the end it will lack the user base needed to keep it alive.

So, other than that, nice lens :)

Peace,
Nate

Nate, I think there are specialized cases when a lens works very well. Introducing people to a topic or, say, an organization is one of those cases where a lens works pretty nicely.

Another case is when you can't do a web site easily, for whatever reason. Case in point: my church. We have an old, stale web site that's not very updatable. We just formed a communications team (wahoo!) and a new web site is one of our priorities. But being realistic, a new site won't come in the next few months.

This Friday my youth group is putting on our annual missions dinner, which is a major fund-raising event for our summer ministry and missions trip. We had a lot of cool things to tell people about this dinner, but few good ways to do it. So I whipped up a quick Squidoo lens on the missions dinner. It has all sorts of relevant details, the kind of stuff that didn't fit in our bulletin announcement or the skit we had on Sunday morning.

Seems like a great application of Squidoo. I guess the question is whether or not there's enough of those niche applications to make it work.

Thanks for introducing me to squidoo. I must admit that I love it. I've got these lists of resources I've collected over time and it seems like a great tool to organize them by topic (lens).

Also love this site - it does a good job of frustrating, educating and especially motivating!