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Getty Images vs Creative Commons and Privacy: What Bloggers Need to Know

ProBlogger

Even WordPress also published an announcement post in which they share the details of Getty’s new offering and how easy it is to embed an image into your blog. Compare these facts above to going with Creative Commons content instead: Creative Commons : Creative Commons-licensed images can be used for any purpose, by anyone, anywhere.

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PR Ethics … “You CAN Handle the Truth”

Waxing UnLyrical

As those of us who have been doing this exercise since, seemingly, the beginning of time, the quick answer is, “It depends.”. Image: James & Carol Lee via Unsplash, Creative Commons CC0. He blogs at A Professor’s Thoughts. Sorry, Colonel Jessup … my publics can handle the truth.

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It’s As If Those Parkland Kids Learned from a Pro

Waxing UnLyrical

As we did a mock exercise replicating a TV interview, each of us took the approach that felt most comfortable or that we thought would be most effective. Post-exercise feedback: “That sounded sterile and unconvincing.”. I am humbled to have this moment on her blog and want her to know how much she is in my thoughts.

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Judging A Blog Post By Its Cover

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: mj*laflaca via Flickr , Creative Commons It’s about how that writing looks. As you continue to hone your craft (as I try to do), here are some of the exercises I put my writing (and those of my guest bloggers) through on a daily basis, to see if it looks as attractively as it (I think) reads. D’oh, you say.

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Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog November 10th, 2010 Tweet Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown , Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza. Blogging is a strange beast.

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Learning 2.0 - The Things

Buzz Marketing for Technology

23 Things             Recording Progress Listed below are 23 Things (or small exercises) that you can do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0. Week 2: Blogging Set up your own blog & add your first post. Register your blog on PLCMC Central and begin your Learning 2.0

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The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The Bamboo Project Blog. The Power of Blogging ISNT Just in Reading Them. In a few weeks were going to be looking at blogs in the Work Literacy course. In fact, I have to go on record right now as saying that reading blogs is only a small part of what makes blogs powerful for learning. RANT ALERT! ) END RANT ).

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