Don’t Hesitate Publishing Your Articles Online To Gain Exposure

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

The Internet has become the venue of choice for writers who want to gain exposure and share their works with a global audience. Writers once relied on traditional print publications such as newspapers, magazines, books and journals to publish their work. However, with the traditional print media companies either cutting back production or closing altogether, the Internet has stepped in to fill the void.

The Internet: Opening a Global Door

The Internet provides writers with multiple ways of getting their works published. For instance, authors interested in feature writing can submit their works to ezines, short for “electronic magazines” that focus on a variety of topics such as medicine, business, law, technology and education. Some writers have set up their own web sites and blogs to showcase their work and provide readers with an opportunity to purchase their materials as well.

The Internet has also opened the door for writers to produce their own digital books, called “ebooks” that are much less expensive to publish than traditional print books.

There are also online companies willing to hire writers to produce content for web sites, blogs, and newsletters on a contractual basis. So, writers have the freedom to freelance with online companies while working on their personal projects at the same time. For writers looking to land a full-time job in the media industry, using the Internet to publish their works helps to make them more marketable to potential employers.

Protecting Your Work

While the Internet gives writers a global platform, it also gives rise to copyright infringement complaints. It’s now common for readers to see an article that they enjoy and post it on their own web site or blog without first getting permission from the writer. That is why it’s important for writers, particularly ones who self-publish, to copyright their works.

Writers can register their materials with the U.S. Library of Congress, which issues copyrights for online work just as it does for print publications. Once the work is registered, writers can place a copyright protection notice on their web sites, articles and other online work as a warning to readers.

Writers must also take precautions to protect their work from being used on social media sites without their knowledge. Users of popular social media networks not only use the mediums to keep in touch but to share information that they obtained from the Internet, including informative stories and articles. Many social media users post copyrighted content from the Internet on their pages without realizing that they need to have permission from the author to use the material. In these instances, it is very difficult for writers to know who’s using their work, and where it’s being used, without their permission.

Writers concerned with this problem can use plagiarism checkers, many of which are available online for free. The checkers search articles and web site pages for content duplication and report the results back to the writer. Administrators of these social networking sites have policies against copyright infringement. Writers who find violations of those policies can file a complaint with that social media site.

Although there are pitfalls to online publishing, this should not prevent writers from using the Internet to share their works with the world.

This article was contributed by CD TECHNICAL who specializes in websites for authors and online donation software.

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The Biggest Online Marketing Mistakes of 2011

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

 If you’re on the lookout for an Internet marketing company, you probably want to avoid those that were responsible for these mistakes.

All too often companies see a successful service like WebpageFX SEO packages and think that is all they need to do in order to succeed in online marketing. Of course, without understanding the business as a whole, it’s easy to set yourself up for failure.

The online world of marketing has some big pitfalls that need to be avoided. An Internet marketing company that doesn’t see where those responsible for the following mistakes went wrong shouldn’t be in the business!

Paul Christoforo Angers the Internet

A schoolteacher tinkered with a game controller to make it easier for one of his physically disabled students to play the games that he loved. It turned out that his altered controller was also in high demand from extreme gamers and so the N-Control Avenger went into production.

It sounds like a marketer’s dream, but Paul Christoforo of Ocean Marketing, who was in charge of distribution and customer communication found a way to ruin it. The launch of the controller was plagued by delays, and when one customer emailed to ask about its status, Christoforo responded by insulting him and name-dropping big industry players, such as Kotaku, IGN , Engadget and PAX.

When the customer forwarded the emails to the people behind PAX, the news of this poor customer service hit the Internet and all these industry figures were quick to make it clear they had nothing to do with Christoforo or his company. While this story is still developing, it looks like Ocean Marketing is no longer associated with the N-Control Avenger.

TellTale Games and the Jurassic Park Jeep

TellTale Games were behind a new Jurassic Park Game and contacted the owner of a replica Jurassic Park Jeep in order to borrow it for a Seattle convention. A few months after the convention, the owner of the Jeep posted on Reddit, stating that his Jeep had been damaged in transport and Telltale Games refused to compensate him.

Immediately, he was the recipient of much support from the Reddit community, with many readers cancelling their pre-orders for the game and calling Telltale to express their displeasure with how the car’s owner had been treated. Of course, nothing is simple on the Internet.

The CEO of Telltale soon chimed in, stating they had in fact been in contact with the owner, that he was the one who was uncooperative and that he had left out essential parts of the story. After much back and forth, accusations on both sides, and the harassment of some TellTale employees, the car’s owner and the CEO came to an agreement over compensation.

Unfortunately, neither of them came off looking very good.

 

This post brought to you by guest blogger Michelle who enjoys blogging about internet marketing company and marketing agency news.

 

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