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Can I Use That Image for My Website or Newsletter?

Tech Soup

With the rise of visual social media (like Pinterest and Instagram), a clear trend in digital communications is more images and fewer words — even if you are communicating through your website or an email newsletter. copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not. Copyright Office.

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Tips for nonprofits from Candid’s year of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts 

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Then, we repurposed it into four shorter 15-second videos and featured it in our email newsletter. Additionally, following trends is difficult for nonprofits when you take copyright challenges into account (organizations aren’t permitted to use a lot of trending audio). A great example is our red flags for funders series.

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10 Fast Tips to Boost E-newsletter Performance - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Main | Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team » Wednesday Jan 14 2009 10 Fast Tips to Boost E-newsletter Performance Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:40AM | by Allyson Kapin Let’s face it: People have a love hate relationship with their email. Here are some useful tips to increase your e-newsletters performance rates.

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An Easy Recipe for Making Text Overlay Images

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Your photos should not only resonate with your audience, it should tell a story, not be copyrighted, and be a decent photo (not blurry or poorly composed). You can take your own photos or use stock photography. Don’t forget to add your URL or logo. Photo Source: Mlaraevski on Flickr. Kitchen Equipment.

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

Tech Soup

This means you can take our content, post it on your website, or use it in your trainings or newsletters, and you don't even need to ask us for permission. Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared.

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How to Maximize Impact of Nonprofit Newsletters - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Place the most important articles at the top - theyre more likely to get read there Give people an opportunity to donate or take action - links in standard newsletters do get clicked on, but, admittedly, not as much as stand-alone appeals Include fun stuff in the sidebars - they get clicked on a lot! Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Can I Use That Video on My Website?

Tech Soup

Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. YouTube currently has just two primary copyright types: Conventional copyright, in which the creator has full rights. Vimeo has a section for Creative Commons-copyrighted videos.

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