Online moderation for Content Security

After spending sweat and effort, you and your writers, editors, videographers, graphic designers, photographers and other staff members finally see your works posted on your business website. What if the next day, you these very same contents unlawfully posted on another website? This has happened on occasion and can happen again. It cemented the need for online moderation and for online content protection. Businesses saw the need for online moderation services as a means of checking, supervision and monitoring of web contents to make sure that these are secured from “content pirates”.

          Online contents that need to be secured include original audio, movies, and publications in scanned format, games, private polls and all other forms of media. Copyright policies were created by authorities to protect people who made/own these materials. In all countries, piracy and plagiarism are considered illegal, though enforcement varies based on location. In social networking sites like Youtube, piracy is rampant. Users use video capturing tools to record an existing video, then they upload it as their own. Due to this activity, some media owners block their videos in countries where works are not well protected. Books are also protected by law as proven when Google faced controversies when it launched its service to digitalize books that are out of print (e-books). This issue was settled through an agreement of revenue sharing from the author of the book and the internet company.

          In online moderation, contents of a business website are monitored. Moderators check if the articles are original and are not violating any law on copyright. Moderators make sure the segments of viral videos are not taken from other productions or websites. After they posted web materials on the business website, they supervise the activities of the site so that no one can just copy the video and use it for illegal purposes. They set guidelines to protect the content of the website. Indeed, moderators become the policemen of the internet. By using computer software, they program whether an article can be copied by a user or not. Some websites do not allow copy-and-paste function while some websites automatically shows the source of an article or a video when copied. With pictures, some place the business logo at the bottom of the picture. Others program the picture so that it will not be shown unless the user registers as a member of the website. Moderators also monitor the worldwide web for violators. If they find one, they report the incident to the business for further action. Moderators remind users of the website laws on piracy and copyright for content security.

          Nowadays, there are “rework” articles. Some writers make a version of their work from an original article. In some instances, moderators inquire about the suspicious article from the website it was posted. Some websites delete the article to stop further troubles while some choose to explain their defense in court. In moderation, it is difficult to identify if the article is plagiarized or not. Moderators take time comparing similar works before further actions.

          While there are laws that protect works from being abused by other websites and other people, these are not sufficient for your content security. These laws just give the consequence to violators. The best thing to do is still to implement excellent online moderation system to your business website. For more information, visit us at www.newmediaservices.com.au or email us at info@newmediaservices.com.au.

New Polling Features

With the fast-changing features of technology, polling should also evolve. From time to time, new features come out to adapt to the upgrading features of mobile phones and laptops.
In the market, there are dozens of polling software that offer new features. One of them is Poll iT from New Media Services.
Nowadays, we can have a poll without response options. We can use fill-in-the-blank format questions. Example is this: “__________ sucks.” In this poll, choices are unlimited. The polling software gathers all answers, classifies them and shows the result who or what “sucks”.
Another is new appearances of polls. If in the past, there were limited fonts, today we have new and better-looking fonts and marks. We can also add some customized graphics to entice respondents to answer.
Images and videos can now be inserted to give better viewing. This new feature is needed when the topic is about a certain video or picture. Thus, we can copy videos from Youtube and insert it in the poll for our respondents’ convenience.
New polling software also automatically captures the e-mail address and full name of respondents. This eases the host business to know who participated in the poll.
Computer software also has the ability to count who viewed the poll and who participated. It can also track what browser, if it is Google Chrome, Yahoo or other popular browsers, was used by a specific respondent in viewing the poll.
Some polls have special effects like pop-up graphics. These graphics appear after a respondent clicked his answer, saying “thank you” to the respondent with some notes on how to know results of the poll.
For the host of polls, some software offers “filter” tool. After automatically registering all information about the respondents, the host can trim down the list depending on their age, sex, location, etc, for any purpose. Example, the host filters all respondents who are 50 years old and above because he likes to send invitations for his insurance company orientation.
Some software also permits all data to be automatically pasted in spreadsheets, e-mails and other documents. For sure, this eases the copy-and-paste activity of secretaries!
Results can also be posted automatically in other websites related to the main website conducting the poll. Visiting the main webpage is no longer needed to know the results. In just a glimpse, respondents can learn about the results through their account in any social networking sites.
Another latest feature promotes nationalism. It gives an option to the respondent what language to use. This may affirms that not all people understand English and most people are comfortable answering questions written in their own native tongue.
Nowadays, we have what we call support system. Respondents can receive some e-mails and newsletters related to the poll. This gives respondents more information about the poll and it creates an impression that the poll is too serious.
Some businesses use independent companies that are specializing in setting up polls. Polling companies can supervise polls 24/7 minimize traffics for on-time updates.
Another exciting feature that people love is the existence of incentives. This offer gifts and free downloads to respondents if they complete the survey.
When money is involved, respondents need to give information on their bank account if in case they win. However, this is subjected to legal discussions.
Those are just some of the latest features that polling software and companies offer. These will be innovated again the next years for sure.
New technology means new ways how to conduct polls. Polling companies come up with more and more features that will improve polling and will bring more luxury and convenience to respondents. With these changes, one thing has not and will never change: polling is part of the business’s success.

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Benefits of Online Moderation

Guarding your business’s image online is the main task of content moderators. Sometimes, businesses do not realize how important it is to impose moderation until a simple published error ruined the business’s image.
Do not wait for your business to learn its lesson in the hard way. Use moderation now and enjoy these benefits.
Imagine you are an owner of a clothing business. In your website, here are the published items: offensive expressions from customers who were not satisfied with your service, pictures of customers naked in the store, forums cursing your sales executives and a video showing an old lady wearing clothes in your fitting room and this video generated comments making fool of the lady.
Do you think you can have more customers? Actually, no one would ever think of visiting your store after visiting your website.
To have a website free from the above mentioned things is what you benefit from content moderation. You protect your business’s image in front of your customers and future customers.
With content moderation, you are free from any lawsuit and accusations. Moderators keep you out from issues like racial and gender discriminations. Moderators slash pictures that can create legal battles on ownership.
They will not involve you in libel and moral defamation cases since items are thoroughly reviewed before these are published in your website. Moderation then keeps your public image law-abiding and innocent from social injustices.
In moderating blogs, comments, forums, chat rooms, you are ensuring a good relationship with your customers. You market your product when you satisfy their queries.
Most of the time, customers join chat rooms in your website to ask about a newly-launched service. While chatting with customers, you are already inviting them to avail of your service. Thus, moderating is an effective advertising and public relations campaign.
Moreover, when you praise your customers in blogs and forums, they will feel good and they will always return to your business. When they praise your service in blogs, millions will read the blogs and will be interested in availing your service.
When picture and video moderators conduct polls to know whether the pictures and videos are good or bad, they are creating recreations to customers. Remember, rating and answering polls is a leisure to respondents.
Moderation is part of troubleshooting also. When customers find a picture or a video very degrading, content moderation immediately stops the fuel before it burns the whole business. Small issues can be magnified into threats that can ruin a business. It is the same thing with tweets that can be reposted by others and can create louder noise.
Little opinions can be read by millions of people online and when they agree to them, your business is dead before you could open your office the next day. If you moderate these items, you are trying to extend your business’s life and expand its income.
To sum up the three roles of moderators, they are friendly participant, rule enforcer and member advocate. In short, they are ambassadors of the business online. They make sure that the business is presented in the most desirable way.
To hire independent companies like New Media Services to handle your moderation activities is also beneficial. The company’s WWW Moderation service protects you up to user-generated contents. It is a tough job to monitor blogs and posts of people in different sites, so these companies specializing in moderation can be a best option.
Businesses conducting content moderation enjoy the above mentioned benefits. They know that content moderation is the seed of clean, vibrant and effective websites and online presence.

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