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MeganCasey · 06/11/2009 12:36 pm

Lot and lots of things happening this week!

I wanted to take a few minutes to outline some of the new projects we have coming your way, as well as address an important concern.

1. First: We've taken a little of what we've learned from Rocketmoms, merged it with feedback from Giants, and have created an 8-week Masters class just for Giant Squids. http://www.squidoo.com/giant-squids-sig … er-school. Starts this Friday, so if you're a Giant and haven't seen it yet, check it out! And if you're not a Giant... remember, June 31st is the deadline to apply: http://www.squidoo.com/giantsquids.

2. Next: On Friday we're releasing our new max lens style, along with SQUIDTHEMES. Finally, a much-requested feature that lets you select from a handful of different color templates for your lenses. Many thanks to the dozen or so lensmasters who tested out the new lens themes for us. And unless they were just being nice, I think it's fair to say you guys will love having a little more control over the look and feel of your lenses.

3. I want to give you a heads up about the "display ads" from Glam media that we're currently running on lenses. Due to a few different factors (Yahoo traffic, aggregate lens performance, contract with Glam) our overall revenue from Glam ads is down. Which means the total ad pool is down too. This most recent payday is the first you might have noticed the crunch -- and I know some of you have. On the upside, here at SquidHQ we are looking at new advertising options. That in itself can be scary... no one likes ads on their lenses to begin with; but no one likes when money goes down, either. Anyway, I wanted to let you know we're exploring options, and that we'll keep you posted.

4. As the Yahoo team promised us, their glitch has been fixed and traffic from Yahoo has been going back up, week on week. It's slow going, but it's going. A good thing.

5. Last: How cool is this: http://carnivalofsquid.blogspot.com/

That's it for right now. More very soon!

Megan

ThomasC · 06/11/2009 12:51 pm

Thanks for the announcements Megan! I love it when officials keep in touch with us! Can't wait for summer school to begin!

Crystal_Booth · 06/11/2009 12:56 pm

I'm all ready to start giant squid summer school. I signed up this morning!

And I cannot wait to see those new themes for our lenses. Very exciting.

Thanks for the update Megan

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dc64 · 06/11/2009 1:07 pm

I think we have all noticed the lag in traffic, but its good to know you are constantly working to make Squidoo better for us all. I like the new interactive ads on the lenses, they almost make me want to click on them! (I don't, of course). With Yahoo traffic steadily rising, I think we will all begin to reap the benefits in the coming months, and I'm just grateful to you all at Squidoo Headquarters for your support, response, and interaction, not to mention this free venue!

Debra

MeganCasey · 06/11/2009 1:32 pm

Thanks for all the optimism! It's contagious, and makes good things happen.

Oh and thanks to a little bird who pays more attention than I do: There are only 30 days in June. Therefore the deadline to apply as a Giant Squid is June 30th, not 31st. I should stop trying to create some kind of leap year effect here, I think.

stargazer00 · 06/11/2009 2:44 pm

Too bad about the ads but I know you guys will sort it out. Lots of things to look forward to especially Summer School!

AdrienneJenkins · 06/11/2009 3:10 pm

Wow! You guys have been busy. Thanks Megan and the rest of the Squidoo team for all the hard work behind moving the community forward...

CORRECTION to the Giant Squid Summer School broken link in Megan's post (because of the period at the end). This should work:

http://www.squidoo.com/giant-squids-sig … mer-school

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KilnGoddess · 06/11/2009 3:10 pm

will you be doing anything about the lower payout problem that has occured to the lens masters that experienced the flawed visitor count. Your mistaken counter has cost your lensmasters money. When can we expect updates to our payouts so they are inline to the actual visitors we had during the time when your system stopped counting?

enslavedbyfaeries · 06/11/2009 4:39 pm

The new SquidThemes are AWESOME!! I think this is a major improvement that lensmasters and visitors will all benefit from. The themes are super easy to use and look very cool, yet very clean or organized. Thank you to those made it happen and all the hard work that must have gone into this project. I am really excited to start switching my lenses.

It's also great to see Yahoo traffic coming back! My top lenses were hit hard and are slowly getting back to where they were.

Teddi14 · 06/11/2009 7:58 pm

Thanks for the update! My Yahoo traffic is coming back up too. :-)

Dkprincess6 · 06/11/2009 9:16 pm

I'm looking forward to summer school. I just joined the Rocketmoms too, so I'm going to be doing a lot of creating I guess.

susannaduffy · 06/11/2009 9:30 pm

The themes are the bees knees! Exciting!
I'm putting my various topics into a theme of their own - my Roman lenses will be purple and my Scandinavian ones will be icy. Et cetera. Fabulous themes!

The new default is also gorgeous. Great to see the latest on the web again here in squidoo

joshuabrown · 06/11/2009 11:04 pm

I just made a few more edits to the themes and am heading to bed. Please be kind tomorrow. We're all sleep deprived!

Josh

aj2008 · 06/12/2009 1:36 am

Joshua I am sure that it is all going to be faBtastic! So what if there's a few bugs - I am sure you will be told very quickly if there are any

I am really looking forward to trying them out.

NanLT · 06/12/2009 1:43 am

What is this sleep thing you speak of?

Spook · 06/12/2009 1:50 am

NanLT wrote:
What is this sleep thing you speak of?

It means they work so hard trying their best for all of us and put in long hours depriving them of decent rest periods. Then when they have done all this, everyone can get back to complaining and so the cycle repeats itself. Something like that anyway.

Stazjia · 06/12/2009 2:40 am

I think we all know that advertising is one of the sectors that has taken bit hit in these hard financial times but it's great to know that you are looking at ways to counteract the downturn.

All of the changes are really exciting and I'm looking forward to seeing them implemented.

Susan52 · 06/12/2009 7:20 am

NanLT wrote:
What is this sleep thing you speak of?

Now, that gave me a good morning guffaw!

Sleep is definitely taking a backseat in my life, that's for sure.

thefluffanutta · 06/12/2009 7:47 am

The new lens style and themes have landed!

kiwisoutback · 06/12/2009 7:51 am

Cool, I'm liking the new look now that it's final! Much cleaner.

SquidooKimberly · 06/12/2009 7:52 am

Themes are live! If you find bugs, you can report them here: http://www.squidoo.com/pages/feedback

Thanks, and enjoy!

Susan52 · 06/12/2009 7:53 am

thefluffanutta wrote:
The new lens style and themes have landed!

Hooray!

Here's my blog post on the subject.
Thought it might be helpful to get everyone up and running with the themes.

SquidooKimberly · 06/12/2009 7:55 am

KilnGoddess wrote:
will you be doing anything about the lower payout problem that has occured to the lens masters that experienced the flawed visitor count. Your mistaken counter has cost your lensmasters money. When can we expect updates to our payouts so they are inline to the actual visitors we had during the time when your system stopped counting?

If you haven't already you can file a bug report to get exact details on how this affected you, but we won't discuss your account on the forum. Thanks.

Stazjia · 06/12/2009 8:05 am

Problems seem to have disappeared and it's looking great.

Spook · 06/12/2009 8:14 am

Will take this Irishman a while to get around all this. Just had a gander and I like but will have to look more. So far haven't noticed how you can star a lens ( sighs ) going back.

Ok I'm an eejit right there in front of my eyes or is that write

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