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The technological age is fast growing to include fabulous electronic gadgets of all sorts that make it even easier to capture imagery for both work and play. People are becoming famous through their YouTube videos, MySpace pages, and blogs. The Internet continually reinvents itself, with new websites that offer shameless self promotional tools for the novice to experienced entrepreneur, entertainer or artist. With MySpace, one can network and self promote, with blogging capability that can be updated on a daily basis. Yet with Squidoo, the need for a separate personal website depends on the individual, and sometimes one page is all you need!

Squidoo is the latest frontier for self promotion in cyberspace. Anyone who wants extra publicity for their area of expertise can use Squidoo to show the world who they are and showcase their talents, goals, dreams or thoughts. Unlike a blog, Squidoo is a lens, which is almost like a filtered version of a single webpage. You can easily change and edit your information, and add new topics, via their fun and easy to use system. The system is set up for the user to make some money, via shared profits, or one can donate any earnings to charity, so it is a good site for non-profit and various charitable organizations looking for an easy to handle platform for their cause. Squidoo is also free to use, like MySpace.

To be noticed at Squidoo, and in the search engines, one has to create a lens that has sub-topics that stand out, such as anything within popular culture or a hot topic, such as global warming or celebrity. Squidoo often has various users network by promoting other people on their site as well, like an author posting another author’s work on their lens, via a link to the original lens or article. One can do whatever they so choose, as long as they have permission to publish another writer’s work. Squidoo provides some great links on how to protect your original material from other users who make money on their Squidoo lens. In general, it is an easy way to safely display one’s material and talents.

Anyone can benefit big time from Squidoo as well. There are some on the site who have gotten jobs and more exposure than at their own personal multi-page websites. A lens is easy to read, and straightforward. So for easy self promotion, Squidoo is a fabulous additional host for anyone to display a stand-out, professional online portfolio.