 Noticing Newbies: July 20, 2011 Issue [#4515] |
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This week: Community and Groups Edited by: Sara♥Jean  
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Community and Groups
People join WdC for many reasons: some so they simply have a place to put their writing, some because they wish to find people with similar interests, some because they love reading and wish to find something new to read, some because they love helping people improve... there are so many reasons to join the WdC community, I can't even list them all!
Community is incredibly important. Without it, this would be just another website. Community - the members of the site - are what make the site live and breathe. They give it personality and life that is impossible for a plain webpage to have.
One part of this site that really allows people with similar interests to get together is Groups. There are, quite literally, groups of all kinds on this website! You can find groups for just about any interest you might imagine. Not to mention, finding a group or two to participate in is a great way to find your niche, so to speak, in the community. A place where you fit in just right.
I am going to use this newsletter, today, to feature some groups new and old! I do know that some groups go inactive for many reasons, and I will be making my best effort to pick some that are active and thriving for you to participate in. 
As well as this being a site for writing, it can also be a site for making close friendships, finding supporters and confidants, and even a place to sponsor your own group, in time, to lead others with similar interests as you!
I cannot, of course, include every wonderful group on this site. There are simply far too many. I encourage you to look through the groups available and find some that might fit you best.
When participating in a group type setting, there are some things you ought to remember:
1. What you type and say will establish, for better or for worse, what people think of you. Remember that when online, text does not have emotion unless you give it emotion. They can't hear the inflection of your voice, they can't hear if you're teasing. Be sure to be careful of what you type, and remember that emoticons can be a great way to add emotion when you aren't sure how to put it in words.
2. Some groups require rather active participation, and some don't. Be sure to pick a group that fits your way of life. If you are often busy offline or in other places, a group that requires you to do five things a day may not be the place for you! And if you want to be active all the time, a laid back group might just not fit you quite right, either.
3. Respect is key. No matter what kind of group it is, having respect for those within the group and making sure you remember their feelings is likely going to be a key to making sure you are successful in that group. Treat others as you'd like to be treated, and you can rarely go wrong.
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honolulu wrote: What work that I have at this website, is it considered my work or does it belong to the website according to the copyright? Can it be used and credited for me or this website or both?
Thank you for the information I must really read all of this over for future referance.
Your work is YOURS, even when posted to this website. If you look at the copyright at the bottom, it says your screen name, not the name of the site. I do not believe anyone on the site can use it without your permission.
Steve adding writing to ntbk.  wrote: I like the way you presented the info about copyright. Especially like the way you posed the questions and provided some good resources for further elaboration. Thanks for caring about the Newbies and I'll be reviewing the ones you suggested here shortly.
Copenator out!
I'm so glad you liked it! I hope it proved useful to you.
NickiD89  wrote: This is good information on copyrights, Sara Jean. A topic that may be of interest in a future NL is how posting a story or poem on a website like WDC, and therefore copyrighting it, also means you can't sell to a potential publisher 'first publishing rights' for that item. Very important to understand for those of us regularly submitting our work to publishers.
You are very right, Nicki. I will consider doing a newsletter about this in the future, or there may have been one done already in the past! Perhaps some research is in order.
Jeff wrote: Thanks for this NL! A lot of people don't understand copyright, and as writers, we owe it to ourselves to know our rights. The biggest misconception I see in my work is the whole idea of what is protected and when.
Technically, your work is copyrighted the minute you transcribe it into fixed form. But if you're ever in a dispute over ownership, you have to be able to prove you created the work first... and one of the only irrefutable, court-recognized absolute proofs is to have a registration with the Copyright Office that predates the other use that's being disputed.
What's great about this site is that since it lists the date of creation of an item, so it's clear when the work was first presented. I haven't actually been party to any lawsuits where a website like WdC has been used to provide proof of ownership... but it definitely helps if you can say, "Here's when they used it... and here's the earlier date of my WdC item with the exact same words." 
Well, I'm actually not sure if someone could use WdC as proof of copyright infringement. Technically, at least in my eyes, anyone could take an older item, edit it to be whatever they would want it to be, and then click "submit", and it would still have the original creation date, even if it was something totally different. It is something interesting, though, and I am curious as to what might hold and what might not in a legal sort of situation.
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