Contributor Guidelines – OCNJ Weekly.com

welcome to OCNJ Weekly, on line home to creative people interested in time-lapse photography, visual story telling and contemporary culture.

Our mission is to provide an enabling, dignified and positive experience to all our readers, contributors, and collaborators hence we have laid down the following code of conduct. They can be used when you are posting an article, when you are leaving a feedback in the community, and even when you are just browsing the tutorials and the stories.

Just take a moment to read this page before becoming involved. Your collaboration will help our platform to stay a friendly and reliable environment to creators in every corner of the world.

1. General Conduct

We request that everyone using OCNJWeekly.com as a reader, author, or commenter, follows the code of conduct below:

Be respectful: Show other creators and readers kindness, no matter what their level of skill or experience is.

Only positive feedback: Post your suggestion constructively. When providing criticism, it should be considerate, precise, and problem-solving.

Zero tolerance of hate: Hate speech, discrimination, personal attacks or any form of harassment will not be tolerated through permanent bans.

Be respectful of rights to own: Please do not copy, repost, or distribute our own content or other users content.

2. Articles or Tutorial Submission

We do accept guest post applications by creators, educators, and visual storytellers. Want to send some work? A tutorial, a gear review, an artist spotlight, a creative opinion piece?Here is what you have to know:

Submission Guidelines

Plagiarism-free: Nothing should be published somewhere before. Any plagiarism will lead to disqualification.

Word count: As long as it is 800-2000 words depending on the depth of the topic, articles should be written.

Form: Headings, subheadings and paragraphs should be used to create brevity and clarity. Clear up clarity, Bullet points are welcome.

Pictures: We support large-resolution images or sample time-laps clips. Submitted media must be owned or have the rights to use them.

What we are seeking

We can love some of this content:
How-to time-lapse videos (e.g. How to do a sunset hyperlapse)
Equipment failures (e.g. inspection of long-term time-offset cameras)
Stories of the field (e.g. making a documentary)
Artist profiles (feature a time-lapse artist and his/her path)
Creative essays (why time-lapse is important, or how it influences story telling)

Accepting it, we can revise your text in terms of grammar, form or simplicity. We will give you a credit as always and a bio link to your profile as a contributor.

3. Presentation Advice

To post an article or respond to posts in the comment sections follow the formatting guidelines below:

Avoid grammatical and punctual mistakes
Do not overuse emojis and ALL CAPS
Make your language all encompassing and professional
Where possible the use of footnotes should be used, to cite sources of statistics, equipment specifics, or historical data

Depending on your audience, you could use a metric or imperial unit, but where you can, it is probably best to use both

4. Use of Image and Videos

We have got the visuals that are a massive element of our work. The correct usage of them is the following way:

Any image has to be yours or be used directly with the agreement
Deal with captions and credits where needed
Copyrighted work should be avoided without exception of proving the right to it usage
In the case of tutorials, give at least one example frame, screenshot so that it can assist in your steps

You may send video materials (e.g. time-lapse video) in such case, please send a downloadable file (Google Drive, Dropbox, or WeTransfer) or a embeddable Vimeo/YouTube link.

5. Global connection

We encourage creators to market their own sites, but they need a reason and they have to do it openly.

You are allowed to put up to 1-2 back links to your personal site, YouTube channel or portfolio
Any such support by affiliate links, sponsorship, or paid promotion of a product must be pre-approved
No guest-posting jollies or link-bait please We are not interested in purely promotional (although we like to read your vernacular when we can), or SEO-driven link dumping

Welcome to demonstrate creativity–not to flood the Web.

6. Community Contributions

Besides articles, you can approach in the following:

Newsletter responses: Have a tip or a query? Reply to any of our newsletters-we do read all of them.

Comment boxes: Leave your opinion about a tutorial or column of a magazine. Stay civil.

Contests & Challenges: We periodically have contests and challenges either on time-lapse or creative theme.

We are creating a network of creatives and your voice is expected.

7. What We Want To Trounce

We do not accept the following to be able to be of quality and focused:

Reposted or artificially intelligence-developed text which has not been edited by a human being
Articles about a non time-lapse, photography, story, travel, or creative lifestyle
Illegal content (including copyright violation and imitation of an individual or a brand).
Political/religious comment
Misleading titles (such as clickbait chimera) or fake ADVICEmania

You may not be sure whether your topic may fit or not, simply send us an email and we will see how we can advise you.

8. Exiled to Australia Aboriginal Legal & Copyright Notice

Readers are not provided with the right to speak on behalf of the author of the article or materials published on OCNJWeekly.com as this platform is bound by certain provisions of the copyright law ensuring the protection of the ownership of the copyright by the author.

By submitting work to Contribute, the contributors will have the right to it but give us a license to publish, archive, and distribute the work.
The content that we produce, you can neither reproduce, republish, or re-editorialise without our prior consent.
Copyright infringements in the work presented will also be detected and the author will be disqualified with such work being promptly removed.

We also do not violate DMCA as well as take a takedown request as we should.

9. Contact and Questions

Still wondering something? Like to bring up a new idea? We would enjoy hearing your sides.

Email address: info@ocnjweekly.com

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