Staff Picture Gallery

05-28-2007, 12:07 AM

I'm seeking advice on whether to include a slideshow with staff photos
on our non-profit organization's web site. The staff welcomes it...and 3
out of 4 web sites in our field have staff photos of one kind or
another. A few folks in upper management, however, registered concern
about identity theft or privacy.

If we run photos, do we need to get releases to use the pictures?

Thanks.

05-28-2007, 12:07 AM

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A former company of mine put employee pictures on its web site. A
manager came by and told the employees they were to be so enshrined.

If you are an employee, they own you, eh? Are you one of them?

I don't know how anyone could steal an identity from a low-res web
graphic...

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05-28-2007, 12:07 AM

Thats something you need to ask your lawyer.

05-28-2007, 12:07 AM

On May 22, 5:30 am, "Viper" <ven...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thats something you need to ask your lawyer.

i call those types of page s"glory" pages as they serve no purpose...
i dont care what you dress it up as its of absolutely no use to the
client/customer/visitor.

mark
www.neue.co.uk

05-28-2007, 12:07 AM

On Mon, 21 May 2007 20:38:30 -0700, editprod wrote:

> I'm seeking advice on whether to include a slideshow with staff photos
> on our non-profit organization's web site. The staff welcomes it...and 3
> out of 4 web sites in our field have staff photos of one kind or
> another. A few folks in upper management, however, registered concern
> about identity theft or privacy.
>
> If we run photos, do we need to get releases to use the pictures?

Its non profit, No biggie. I even like staff pictures on profit sites even
if they are 'invented'. I guess I am just a human being who like to see
other human beings that I am interacting with in my life. It part of my I DO
have a real life besides the internet.

You can find a bunch of model release forms with a search in google. I would
get one sign even though very unlikely that anyone is going to follow you
home. I guess if you pissed someone off enough, they could hunt you down
and come looking for you. The picture would help I guess, but if someone
wants to hunt you down, they are going to hunt you down whether they have a
picture or not.

Upper management is usually still struggling just getting email so they have
no understanding of what the internet is and how it works other than all the
news they can get in 2 minutes on their nightly news show. I would just blow
off upper management.

I posted a club's roster in a members only section needing a password and
user name to get in, otherwise you had to be a member to access it. One of
the club's officer went crazy. "Someone could break in and get all that
information". I had to remind him that the same information is in a book in
every home in America called the phone book. If someone wants names,
addresses and phone numbers, hand them a phone book, there are lots of them
there. Or search whitepages.com. Dud...

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05-28-2007, 12:07 AM

On May 21, 10:38 pm, editprod <editp...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm seeking advice on whether to include a slideshow with staff photos
> on our non-profit organization's web site. The staff welcomes it...and 3
> out of 4 web sites in our field have staff photos of one kind or
> another. A few folks in upper management, however, registered concern
> about identity theft or privacy.
>
> If we run photos, do we need to get releases to use the pictures?
>
> Thanks.

(well I think viper is right.) But it would seam helpful if someone
was trying to phish your identity if you put names on site and a photo
and e-mail address of person. or any other contact information. But
the net is full of photos of people that know and of those that dont.
Look at some of the larger companys They put photos of the Pres.or CEO
on there sites with names and contact information

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