Images You Can and Cannot Share in Blogging for Business

I certainly don’t need to be sold on using images in blogging for business. (This post, believe it or not, is actually #1135 on my Say It For You blog, and in every single one of the 1,134 others, you’ll find a photo or image of some kind.)

In fact, one of Debbie Hemley’s 26 Tips for Writing Great Blog Posts is using mages. Pictures have the power to:

• Pique interest
• Aid in learning
• Evoke emotions

Engaging blog posts, I teach, need to contain more than well-structured sentences. Just as public speaking maven Jim Endicott teaches speakers that every oral presentation needs three elements to be effective (delivery, content, and visual presentation), I believe there are three “legs” to the “stool” of blog content creation:

• Information
• “Voice” (the way the message comes across, the opinion slant)
• Image

There are so many awesome images you can post on your blog,” says Megan Wilson.  But what is OK to post and what is not?  Megan’s design agency and Vound teamed up  to create a graphic to clarify many of the confusing aspects of copyright infringement,  and Megan invited me to share this information with my Say It For You readers.

Copyright Infringement: Images You Can and Can’t Share on Your Blog