Do You Understand Copyrights?


If you use photos in a blog, a brochure, or your prayer letter, you should understand copyright laws. Using music on a video may also have copyright issues.

I recommend you read the entire article, “Using Copyrighted Material”, on the Staff Web. In fact, this article contains essential information for Cru staff, so set aside some time today to read it. [Continue reading…] Continue reading Do You Understand Copyrights?

What’s Trending Today? Mandela, World Cup Draw, and… Shopping


If a big event occurs in current events, I check out Nibbo.com to see “what’s trending.” I expect to see the major headlines show up, so I checked today, but found Nelson Mandela didn’t show up in the top twenty Google searches (maybe he did yesterday) I was surprised by the trends, in the U.S.,for Google searches. [Read moe…] Continue reading What’s Trending Today? Mandela, World Cup Draw, and… Shopping

A Video for Your MPD Blog


I just uploaded the following video, To the Ends of the Earth, to eQuipping for eMinistry’s YouTube channel so you can use it, too. I think you’ll agree this 2009 film is still a good quality video covering Campus Crusade for Christ’s history and highlighting various ministries. What I like about this video is the script includes our financial partners as part of what God is doing. Continue reading A Video for Your MPD Blog

Resizing images


I wrote earlier in Watch Out for Photo Sizes: A Tutorial about the need to compress photos (think: “volume”). Now this post is about resizing the dimensions of photos (think: “puzzle pieces”). The previous post was about large photos taking up a lot of space in media libraries for blogs and for MailChimp and in your friends’ eMail inboxes. This post is about making photos the right size to fit a space. [Read more…] Continue reading Resizing images