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An Easy Recipe for Making Text Overlay Images

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you cook, you know that your dishes are only as good as your ingredients. For text overlay images, you need the following ingredients: text, photo, and branding. With this simple recipe, you can create a great text overlay image to illustrate a blog post and use on social channels in less than 15-30 minutes. Measuring Tools.

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Great reads from around the web on October 18th

Amy Sample Ward

."" Photographs, Digital Rights & Social Media Events | Geoff Livingston's Blog – Geoff shares a recent example of his attendance at an event where he was photographed and his images shared. And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property?

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Guest Post: Collections Access - Open the Door Wider

Museum 2.0

“Unfortunately,” that subscriber advised, there are no legal avenues to stop visitors from photographing objects or images in the public domain in public spaces where photography is allowed. Copyright infringements: A large portion of historical collections are in the public domain.

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Amy Gahran's Advice for Finding Free To Use Flickr Photos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm going to quote them here: Is the subject of the photo copyrighted? If the photo is of, say, a TV screen showing a newscast or a newspaper page showing a staff photo, then you still might be liable for copyright violation despite the terms of the CC license listed on Flickr or elsewhere. Is the image genuine?

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LACMA's Magritte Exhibition: This is not fair use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both celebrate and betray fair use at the same time. Only a court of law can determine whether the purpose of the photography was fair use or not. It's really out of our hands.

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Nonprofit Web Design Process Part 4b: Wireframes

Connection Cafe

Wireframes are skeleton layouts of key pages or templates for a website and are used to position elements on the page without colors, styles or photography. Footer links, content and copyright information. The deliverables from each tool may be exported as images or uploaded to the web so they can be viewed via URLs.

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

The museums developed careful rules about what could and couldn't be shot, and how participants could upload their images to Flickr for use by the project. The event succeeded in donating thousands of images to Wikipedia, but it was plagued by challenges that frustrated museum staff, Wikimedians, and photographers.