Comments on: 31 day blog updates http://www.timdavies.org.uk/2007/08/20/31-day-blog-updates/ social media, youth participation, e-democracy & social change Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:53:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tim http://www.timdavies.org.uk/2007/08/20/31-day-blog-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-259 Tim Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:39:32 +0000 64 at http://www.timdavies.org.uk#comment-259 Michelle, Christine Thanks for the pointers re: copyright. I'll tend to only use screen-capture for grabbing shots of site or bits of websites, rather than of whole photo images. I'm guessing as I create the image, and tend to be linking back to the source, I should be on relatively safe ground there... Although I do need to go back and check I'm been consistent in my method of attributing Flickr Creative Commons photos, as some are only attributed in the 'alt' or 'description' tags, and I really ought to have the credit under the image... Michelle, Christine

Thanks for the pointers re: copyright. I’ll tend to only use screen-capture for grabbing shots of site or bits of websites, rather than of whole photo images. I’m guessing as I create the image, and tend to be linking back to the source, I should be on relatively safe ground there…

Although I do need to go back and check I’m been consistent in my method of attributing Flickr Creative Commons photos, as some are only attributed in the ‘alt’ or ‘description’ tags, and I really ought to have the credit under the image…

]]> By: Michele Martin http://www.timdavies.org.uk/2007/08/20/31-day-blog-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-261 Michele Martin Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:57:29 +0000 64 at http://www.timdavies.org.uk#comment-261 Tim--you're really burning things up over here! RE: finding photos and avoiding copyright issues, I took a page from Beth Kanter's book and started using Flickr. You can do an advanced search for photos that have a Creative Commons License. Then I just do a right click, save to my hard drive and put it in my post, making sure to credit the person who took the photo. Of course, you still have to take the time to do it, but it's only a few minutes usually. Tim–you’re really burning things up over here! RE: finding photos and avoiding copyright issues, I took a page from Beth Kanter’s book and started using Flickr. You can do an advanced search for photos that have a Creative Commons License. Then I just do a right click, save to my hard drive and put it in my post, making sure to credit the person who took the photo. Of course, you still have to take the time to do it, but it’s only a few minutes usually.

]]> By: Christine Martell http://www.timdavies.org.uk/2007/08/20/31-day-blog-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-260 Christine Martell Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:24:58 +0000 64 at http://www.timdavies.org.uk#comment-260 Tim, Great job with the pictures. Taking the time to make them relevant is part of the challenge for sure. It's interesting, since I've been doing the challenge my use of photos has dropped. Yikes, we are professional photographers, with a library of over 20,000 images. No excuses in lack of resources, but the time thing still challenges me. The screen capture tool is a good idea, just watch out for copyright. The language issue is really critical also. I also struggle with this. How I describe what I do, how my customers describe it, and how it gets indexed in the search engines is all different. I find myself making compromises. Talking with customers, asking what they think we do, and paying particular attention to what they say has helped. My customers aren't blog readers yet either. However, when I send out an email newsletter and link to the individual blog posts, they do come over and read. From the analytic task, I can see they read several pages and spend more time than readers coming in from search and online links. I also recognize this is a bit like apples and oranges since my blog is related to a commercial company, but perhaps there is some idea to glean from it. It's also helped to put my blog link in my email signature, but I don't know if email is your primary communication tool as it is with my older client base. All of us with new blogs may have to revisit the challenge to implement a bunch of the tasks in the future. Let's check in to remind each other as time goes on. Tim,
Great job with the pictures. Taking the time to make them relevant is part of the challenge for sure. It’s interesting, since I’ve been doing the challenge my use of photos has dropped. Yikes, we are professional photographers, with a library of over 20,000 images. No excuses in lack of resources, but the time thing still challenges me. The screen capture tool is a good idea, just watch out for copyright.

The language issue is really critical also. I also struggle with this. How I describe what I do, how my customers describe it, and how it gets indexed in the search engines is all different. I find myself making compromises. Talking with customers, asking what they think we do, and paying particular attention to what they say has helped.

My customers aren’t blog readers yet either. However, when I send out an email newsletter and link to the individual blog posts, they do come over and read. From the analytic task, I can see they read several pages and spend more time than readers coming in from search and online links. I also recognize this is a bit like apples and oranges since my blog is related to a commercial company, but perhaps there is some idea to glean from it.

It’s also helped to put my blog link in my email signature, but I don’t know if email is your primary communication tool as it is with my older client base.

All of us with new blogs may have to revisit the challenge to implement a bunch of the tasks in the future. Let’s check in to remind each other as time goes on.

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