10-Finity.com

The past few months have been a whirlwind of activity for Team 10-Finity. We’d like to take a few moments to get you up to date on what’s happening.

First, a little bit of background:

We were happily building the Professional Squids group at Ning.com when Ning announced that they are going to “paid accounts” only. While that is completely their business, we felt that we would not stick around to see what other surprises free hosting might give us. The only alternative was for us to give Professional Squids its proper home. A stable place where no one not truly connected with it could come down the pike and change things without our consent.

As Team 10-Finity, we would have eventually made the move to our own site; Ning just gave us a jumpstart. And that is where we are now…

…Even as Paula is making Professional Squids group even better, we are all still working feverishly to get things ironed out there and on the whole site. I think the team has given it a valiant effort so far, practically non-stop for the last three months.

The time is now, though, for us to quit focusing on trying to do everything at once.

What we have in mind for 10-Finity.com requires a lot of background work for it to move forward. Which, as I said, there was no time for in the rush to move PS to its new home and in the fact that we are still working to help Paula make ProSquids the best it can possibly be and to make the inner workings of the site run as smoothly as it needs to.

So, although you may not see frequent posts on this particular blog for some time, do know that our number-one priority is to do whatever we can to help make ProSquids the place that empowers you to “create quality content.”

Also, in the background, we are solidifying our goals for 10-Finity, and that in itself is a lot of work — manuals, procedures, all of the concerns that need to be dealt with before we move on…

Meanwhile, what you can do is continue to participate and learn at ProSquids. You can also feel free to create blogs here at 10-Finity.com. If you look at the blog list from the tab up top, you can see that there is some top-quality blogging going on already. Feel free to add your own.

If you Tweet about ProSquids or 10-Finity, a huge help for the entire community will be to use the corresponding Twitter hashtag of either #prosquids or #10Finity.

And not any less importantly, I’d like to thank the members of Team 10-Finity and acknowledge all of the work you do to make it possible for us to be here giving and sharing of our time and resources. There hasn’t been a lot of opportunity lately with all of the building and such for too very many thank-yous, but I want you to know I am thankful and that I am extremely proud to share this journey with you.

And lastly, all members of this site may feel free to contact us for any concerns, questions, or suggestions you may have.

As always, we are here to help.

Sincerely,
MiMi

PS: An FYI: Ning as a free site will close on August 20. Before then, if you have any Ning sites you’ve set up but don’t plan to subscribe to the service, you may go to them and follow the prompts to archive your Ning group and download it to your computer. This process will set the site to be deleted from online view once the August 20 deadline is reached. Otherwise, I believe that you’ll have no control over what you leave there.

It is with great pleasure that we announce a new member of our team!

Otherwise known as lakeerieartists, Paula Atwell is now, not only the Community Manager at Professional Squids, but she is now an official member of 10-Finity.

We really got to know Paula better once she began teaching “Affiliate Marketing: Tangible” at Ning.com where we had set up the Professional Squids group.

Her excellent work there led us to ask her to manage the whole community of Professional Squids in its new home at 10-Finity.com.

Paula had come to love Professional Squids and quickly came on board. Immediately, she went into Community Manager mode. Professional Squids was moved from Ning.com and organized in an amazingly short amount of time. She is constantly building quality content to help you learn to be a better lensmaster. She has helped us to make the site the premier place online to help you build better lenses and to be a professional and ethical affiliate marketer.

With her at the helm, the group gets better and better every single day. The Professional Squids site is truly a wonder to behold!

Here, at 10-Finity, every one of us noticed Paula’s work — her organizational skills, her focus, and her determination. Paula stands way out with these attributes and more.

She’s a true professional.

So, when it came time to look for a Promotions Manager, we didn’t have very far to look at all.

We invited her, she joined, and now Paula is officially the Promotions Manager at 10-Finity group.

Welcome aboard, Paula! We look forward to working with you and learning and growing together.

Congratulations, Paula!

In case anyone missed it, Saturday, Paula (lakeerieartists), your Community Manager at Professional Squids, won the Squidoo’s Sunshine Award for her lens “Professional Squids: Integrating Squidoo and Zazzle.”

Way to go, Paula!

And in case you’ve not joined the Professional Squids group, right now may be a good time to go there and take a look at what this awesome Community Manager has put together for you. Winning the Sunshine Award for her lens related to the community is but one example of her fine work.

Professional Squids is truly THE place to learn how to be the best lensmaster you can be.

Join in. And have fun learning!

Congratulations again, Paula!

For a spectacular look at what group members here at 10-Finity can do with a small group inside this larger community, let’s check out the multi-author blogs set up by fellow member, Susan52.

Spectacular? Well, yes. These authors are creating something they are passionate about. Inside a community of potential eyeballs — yours and mine.

Spectacular idea in my mind.

And what else? These ladies know the help goes both ways. Thanks to quality blogs like these, it’s no doubt that 10-Finity will become even more attractive to those of like mind who want to set up a home here to offer their own unique and quality content.

Susan and her fellow authors know that it’s a winning idea to be in the shelter of something larger than themselves as a group. They know they don’t have to walk alone in the blogosphere. They know this is how it should be. Groups thriving and feeling at home within larger, thriving communities.

The authors for Valentines Every Day, Halloween Every Day, and Christmas Every Day are as follows:

• joan4
• Susan
• Treasures By Brenda
• Dianne Stargazer
• Carma aka Tandemonimom
• robin

These ladies are experienced in life.

They know how to recommend a product.

They know that the time for personal recommendations is here. And here to stay.

Susan and her fellow authors are definitely on the right track with their “every day” blogs.

Congratulations, ladies! It’s a pleasure to see you here building, creating, and recommending.

. . . And now, what’s something spectacular that you can build here?

In celebration of our one-year anniversary today, we have revised the Squidoo Step By Step guidebook. It is newly updated to help you to create content in a fast-changing Internet world.

We have two download areas:

Just by visiting and downloading from our Step By Step lens, you’ll help us raise money for charity: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-step-by-step.

If you just want to get it and go, you may download the new Step By Step here: http://10-Finity.com/squidoo-step-by-step.pdf

We’d love to hear what you think, and we’d love to answer any questions you may have. And hey, if you like it, well, Facebook and Twitter would be good places to let your friends know about it.

Most of all, we hope you will find it a great help for your online career.

Our warmest wishes,
10-Finity

Well, we didn’t get to meet everyone, but we sure did have fun!

And the best part is that we’re going to do it again! And with better directions to the chat room

Here’s Paula’s report on the chat: The Rapid Growth of an Interactive Community

Thank you so much for coming and for helping to make this an even greater place. No matter what community you share with others, YOU make it thrive.

And apologies to all who were stuck at the door. I promise you, we did not hire that bouncer.

PS: We’ll announce the new, revised guidebook tomorrow in celebration of one year as 10-Finity. Be on the lookout.

On July 8th…

Come chat with us! We’d like to get to know you better. And we’d like to personally welcome you to the Professional Squids group here at its new home on 10-Finity.com.

AJ, Alex, Dan, Michey, Paula, and I hope to see you at a two-hour chat on Thursday from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm EST.

To get there, just click “Chat” at the top of any page on site. Bring yourself a cool drink, a snack, and let’s chat awhile.

Photo Credit: mulder – Fotolia.com

Once the Professional Squids are settled in here at our new site and the site glitches are under control, the 10-Finity team will start their own blog. Right here. Stay tuned to this spot.

You can possibly win $99 from Squidoo in this month’s Lens Project from Professional Squids. If you win, your specified charity will win $99 as well. Get started here.

The Professional Squids group is now here and open for learning, teaching, networking, building relationships, and other good and positive stuff. Come on in and make yourself at home!

If you and your data were transferred over from Ning automatically, be sure to look over your profile (My Account > Profile > Edit Profile) to make certain your information is the way you want it, and to make sure you have an avatar. (Some avatars would not transfer.)

Some folks didn’t receive their new login information. Maybe it went straight to your spam folder, but if you can’t login, use the fluffanutta’s advice and click “Lost your password?” on the sign in page to get another one. If that doesn’t help, click my avatar and send me a private email — if all else has failed, we can certainly do it manually. –MiMi