Archive for February, 2012

Over the next few days (hopefully, only days) we are carrying out major maintenance on the creative genie website. Up until now we have maintained a separate site for our training materials in effective writing – Working with Words (www.workingwithwords.com.au). While we will still maintain that domain, from now on both will be integrated into [...]

A story of white slavery, one of 24 from my forthcoming book.

This resource has been posted for my class on social networking. The information provided below has been culled from a number of sources.
Search on the web for information on these and other websites. A good place to start is Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

Authors generally own their own work and license it to a publisher for printing but the exact conditions will be spelled out in the contract. Basically, if the work you are writing is part of your job, ownership and all rights will more probably be vested in the organisation on behalf of which you are working.

In recent years there has been a concerted effort to extend the knowledge community by making some works—with the author’s or creator’s permission—available to others without payment. This system is known as the “Creative Commons.” This blog introduces the concept and shows you where you can find out more.

Copyright protects people’s original works and if you include whole passages of text from another person or freely distribute (whether or not for profit) you can infringe a person’s copyright. In this information age, this applies often to music and photographs that are downloaded from the web. Just because it is on the web does not mean you can freely use it.

My course Blogging for Business suggests links to a number of online videos and other pages that contain useful information and tips. For the convenience of all I am publishing them here with active links.

Blogging as an online activity has grown together with the rapid rise in social networking sites over the past decade and with the development of new languages that make it easy for individuals to create web pages and web content of their own without the need to use specialist web design companies (although such companies still have their uses, increasingly individuals and businesses are able to create their own website including quite sophisticated content using blogging software).