These days, there are so many ways for people to take their thoughts online and share their views to anyone in the world. Blogs, websites, micro-blogs (e.g. Twitter), wikis, and more give anyone who care to take the time to learn, the means to put their thoughts online. But what if setting up a blog or a website is just too much for you? How do you contribute knowledge to the world out there? Enter Squidoo.
The founder of Squidoo, Seth Godin, once said that "Everyone is an expert on something". Squidoo was conceived to make it easy for anyone to share their knowledge and expertise online. In Squidoo, individual pieces of knowledge or topics are called lenses. People who contribute these knowledge or lenses are called lens masters. There could be more than one lens on a particular topic or subject, however, conceptually Squidoo encourages diversity of perspectives; duplication is therefore not necessarily a bad thing.
In an earlier blog post I talked about creating your very own personal knowledge management system. By organising your personal knowledge centrally using GMail, you will be able to quickly create and recall things that you know. The question is, how do you share your knowledge and expertise with the world? Well, the easiest and fastest way for the ordinary internet user is to use Squidoo. By organising what you know into single coherent chunks, you can use Squidoo to implement and create these chunks of knowledge in the form of Squidoo lens. If you need to know how to create Squidoo lenses, follow this link to Squidoo 101, a step-by-step guide to organising and sharing expertise using Squidoo. Try it!
