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The photographer’s right: A downloadable flyer explaining your rights when confronted for photography Target audience: Cause organizations, nonprofits, NGOs, journalists, general public. This is part of our ongoing series designed to help nonprofits and other organizations learn how to use and create media. The Photographer’s Right is a one-page printout on what the rights of […]
Nonprofit resources
Fair use in the digital age
How does fair use work in an age of social media? Fair use — the tradition that individuals may make use of copyrighted works for a range of purposes that are legal — is enshrined in Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act. Other countries have their own versions of fair use. Many people mistakenly […]
What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) refers to news and content that comes to you. More and more people are zeroing in on the material they want — content from bloggers, news outlets, even advertisers — and getting it through online subscriptions rather than through random Web surfing. RSS lets publishers stream content instantly to users who […]
WordPress and TypePad compared
Both services are versatile, but WP has pulled ahead People still ask us all the time which blogging platform they should use. (Micro-answer: It depends on what’s important to you.) During the first few months of 2009, we decided to launch two new ventures — Socialmedia.biz and Socialbrite.org — on WordPress.org platform. Let me explain […]
Monitoring blog conversations
With millions of blogs out there, it can be hard to keep up on all the latest postings about topics you’re interested in. Traditional search engines, such as Google, can take days to index all the blogs on the Web. But with blogs, we talk about news, events and everything else in almost real-time.
