Goals of the blog:
- To educate our readers, particularly non-attorneys, about new technology law and policy changes and the ways those changes effect them.
- To encourage people to get more involved in advocating for their rights , offer them a call to action.
- To discuss trends in communication, art, journalism, activism, and law that involve new technologies and new business models
- To encourage people to support New Media Rights in the various ways we have identified on this page: http://www.newmediarights.org/ways_you_can_support_new_media_rights
How to become a part of the New Media Rights blogger network :
- Please send a writing sample and introductory note to support@newmediarights.org.
- For those bloggers that are approved we will send a link to a private Google Group, so you can recieve our update emails
Blog Process:
- Create a New Media Rights account, and use your first and last night for the username portion. http://www.newmediarights.org/user/register
- Bloggers will be given a list of trending topics and news stories on new media, IP and media law topics once a week via the Google Group. Bloggers are welcome to propose their own topics at any time, just notify support@newmediarights.org.
- Let us know what topic you plan on writing on and a brief overview of what you have in mind as far as sources, analysis and perspective for the blog, email: support@newmediarights.org
- We will approve the topic and send you additional links about NMR’s work on the topic or the work of our coalition partners
- The blog leader and blogger will discuss an appropriate deadline
- One you have finalized a draft share the Google Doc with support@newmediarights.org
- The editor will edit your blog in Google Docs, where you can see all the edits
- The blog leader will notify you that we have prepared a final draft for your review.
- Please send us comments on our edits within 24 hours and we’d be happy to discuss them with you. If we don’t hear from you within 24 hours we will publish the blog
Copyright and Ownership
- You own the work that you create and are free to use it as you see fit, but by contributing content to New Media Rights, you are granting NMR a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your content in connection with the operation of the Services, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.
- We encourage all bloggers to share the blog with your network, don’t underestimate the interest of your network in your writing.
Guidelines for blogs:
- Please follow the AP style handbook: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2664713/Associated-Press-AP-Style-Guide-the-basics
- Please create your blog in Google Docs, that way when we cut and paste into Drupal nodes we don’t get extra code embedded.
- Keep your blog under 500 words
- Put in parenthesis the words that you wanted embedded: e.g.: “Comcast-NBC Merger” and then add link in “<>” e.g.: <http://www.newmediarights.org/nmr/mega_merger_comcast_and_nbc_lethal_marriage>
Expectations:
- We would like bloggers to be able to commit to at least one blogs a month (estimated 5-10 hours).
- Stay on message, keep blogs concise and engaging.
- Make it as readable as possible. While we do have many readers who follow these issues closely, our goal is to be accessible to a broader audience of creators and internet users. (jargon and insider terms aren’t going to help readers understand the topic)
- We want to know industry’s perspective and public interest groups perspective on the topic. Telling the perspectives of different stakeholders in the situation is a plus.
- If you feel you are explaining too many of the terms please embed links to definitions, or contact us and we will add the definition of a new term to our glossary: http://www.newmediarights.org/glossary
- For bloggers to consider about how this effects consumers, creators, entrepreneurs and journalists and write about how particular groups are effected.
Tips:
- Add new studies and sources to the blog, we want our site's content to be unique.
- Contact usabout sources and studies and NMR connected work on the particular topic you are writing about.
- Find a family member, friend, community member that is affected the topic you are writing on and share their testimony. Writing about how they are effected is a powerful writing tool.
