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Originally posted by adduncan
I run websites w/ photos of people on them (a hospital and a DAR chapter). One of our SOPs is that in order to have a picture of someone on a website, they need to sign a "media release". Basically just saying, "yes, please put my photo up." This way, if anyone complains, bitches about "invasion of privacy" or whatever chickie-boo was barking about, you can turn your palms skyward and say, "Hey, the people gave me permission and that's that."
Plus, only the person(s) who signed it can have it taken down.
I think the "we" in that nasty gram was actually "she".
It isn't hard if you have a standardized form and I've found out that it solves a lot of problems before they start. In the case of the hospital website, it's literally a federal law that media releases must be confirmed before putting up photos.
You were much nicer to chickie-boo than I would have been. The best I could have done was blow her off and block her email.
Adrienne
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Well, I know complications can occur and I might post a picture of a boy who doesn't actually want his picture up there - but my number is in the student directory, and my email is all over the website - so if they want me to take it down it is honestly no problem. I don't mind at all. Plus, if I post a picture of a boy who has a girlfriend in another sorority dancing with one of us at a swap, there is ALWAYS someone in my sorority who knows this and will tell me to take it down.
Most guys generally don't care and like to have their face on a sorority website. It is good PR for their self image hahaha.
The release form is a great idea, but there are so many dates. I would have to spend my entire party time getting signatures from drunk boys. Not only that, but I don't know who half these guys are (example guy in the picture), so I wouldn't know what signature went with what guy.
We are going back to school in a week to get ready for recruitment. I'll pull my advisor aside and talk to her about it. Because of this one girl, I guess I just need to take all the pictures of boys off the website and stick to group pics of the girls. I guess that is probably what I should have done to begin with - so maybe it is my fault in a way. I just know that a lot of the girls love to have pictures with their date/boyfriend on there - and their dates/boyfriens don't mind it either. I hate that one bad apple has to mess up the whole bunch.