After I left my position as Marketing Manager at FujiFilm Hunt Chemicals in October 2004, I started my own company, Jaguar Julie Designs.  For the next year and a half, I was busy wearing many hats, so to speak.  I did website design, online selling, marketing consulting, and some blogging.  It was not until March 2006 that my online focus experienced a shift towards more of an involvement in the social media sites.  Two of the first such sites were Stylehive and Squidoo; I joined both of these sites in March 2006 and split my time between the two until the summer of 2007.  At that time, I received the challenge from the folks at Squidoo HQ to qualify and become a Giant Squid with 100 quality lenses by early September 2007.  Well, Squidoo scaled back the number to 50, but knowing me, I made it to 100 despite a hard drive crash at the end of August.

So now, I Squidoo ... Do You?  I'm now fairly immersed on Squidoo as a lensmaster who's authored well over 375 lenses along with being a groupmaster managing some 6 groups.  I was asked to be a Squidoo Activist to help further the word on Squidoo and the good folks involvement promoting charitable contributions.  My 'pet' charity is First Coast No More Homeless Pets [FCNMHP].  I was thrilled to raise $500 for FCNMHP from one lens that competed in the Superhero Project and was tapped for LOTD.  I've had three of my lenses featured as the Lens of the Day which is a terrific honor in of itself; plus a trafffic-generator.  I am also a member of the Giant Squids 100 Club and a SquidAngel.  To know more about me and what I've authored on Squidoo, check out my with my self-titled Jaguar Julie Lensography.  Are you ready to give Squidoo a try for yourself?  Get ready and sign up.

Blog, Blog, Blog ... Well, yes I started off first as a blogger, but feel myself torn in so many directions these days!  I have two different types of blogs, the original one is Jaguar Julie :: Blog On! which was launched in December 2004.  When I started on Squidoo, my poor blog seemed to suffer a bit of neglect.  Nowadays, I find I'm able to post more on this blog as it is integrated with Digg -- I can post to Digg from my Squidoo lens and then add that post as a feed directly to my Google blog.  That might sound a bit confusing, but it is very cool.  In 2008, to further promote the relevancy, spot-on phenomenon of Squidoo lenses, I created a second blog, that is uniquely titled Topicability.  Generally, when I post on that blog, it is a most unique subject that has hit the radar.

Facebook and MySpace ... In early 2008, I decided to explore some of the other social media platforms and have found Facebook to be an interesting mix in that it seems akin to what I've become accustomed to with the modules within the Squidoo build-a-lens, workshop mode.  I had tried MySpace a few years ago, but totally removed my account after several months as I didn't like what I was seeing.  I've decided to give MySpace another chance, but alas -- I found that someone else was using my ID!  So, if you are looking for me on MySpace, I'm known as thejaguarjulie.