Ms. Lewis chose to go with Wordpress to power her new website but I’m going to keep combing the internet for resources for those who make other software choices to run their sites. Via The Rabbi Report, Learning Movable Type is a comprehensive site devoted to, you guessed it, becoming an expert with MT.

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The folks at WITNESS are not only doing great work, they are passionate about disseminating tools to other advocacy-oriented individuals and organizations. Here’s some details about their newest effort:
About the VAI: The Video Advocacy Institute, our newest initiative and the first of its kind, is an innovative program that will train human rights defenders to […]

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Anne Lewis, our Fellow volunteer, has gotten her new site, annelewis.org up and running! Yay! She has chosen Wordpress to power her site, but has run into problems making the site work as a traditional web portal to her work rather than solely a blog.
I noted in my comment on the Wordpress post, how to […]

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Fair Use for Documentary Filmmakers
What exactly is Fair Use and when is it fair to use it?
The Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use was published in 2005 by a consortium of independent media organizations, including Women in Film and Video/DC, the International Documentary Association, the IFP and the National Alliance […]

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If you are already utilizing Creative Commons licenses for your work, you may want to check in at the site to see what’s new in recently launched version 3.0. They’ve refined some of the language and made clarifications where necessary. If you are new to CC, haven’t utilized it but want to know more, or […]

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