Jun

7

Keep your copyrights

June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Thanks to John Montgomery for forwarding this announcement from the American Society of Media Photographers, which also happens to be a great organization for other media professionals (writers):

“The Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts at Columbia University has launched a website, www.keepyourcopyrights.org, designed to aid artists in understanding contracts and how to interpret them. It’s pretty cool. The Center has some sample contracts, but it would like to show more. You are invited to send your favorite (or most-hated) examples. The Center will post them on the website, alongside explanations of the legal terminology. Of course, all sensitive information such as names, addresses, and dollar amounts will be removed first.

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Jun

7

Pology Launches New Online Travel Community

June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

“Dear Friends, I am really excited to announce that Pology has launched a new travel-centric social network that allows users to share their travel photos, blog about their experiences, trade tips in discussion forums, and connect with other people living (and traveling) in their areas.

“Go to http://pology.ning.com or just go to pology.com and click on the ‘community’ tab on the main menu. Our social network is brand new, so it might take a little time before we have enough users for the social aspects to reach critical mass, but you can help to get everything started by signing up (it’s free), poking around the site,creating a profile, sharing your travel stories/pictures, starting discussion topics, and telling your friends!

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Jun

7

Writing contests

June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Thanks to Gail Flynn for passing along this information about a Yahoo! Group listing all kinds of writing contests.

Jun

7

Looking for women travel writers

June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Thanks to Gayle Keck for passing along this info from Duffie Books:

We are a new small publishing company that publishes e-books and pod books. We are looking for writers or authors who are women who have experience traveling on their own, and would like to write their experiences. Whether it be a guide, how to, do it yourself, personal story, travel journal etc.

Our focus is empowering women to feel safe, able and encouraged to travel on their own. We want to give them the information they need to be prepared and have fun along the way.

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Jun

7

Free 411 from Google

June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Thanks to Jim Mannix for this info: Click here to watch a quick video showing how you can find and connect with local businesses for free from your phone by calling 1-800-GOOG-411. You do have to know where you are (city and state, or zip code) for it to work. Very cool.