New Media Partner Information
And Guidelines for using DNR Online content (text and photos)
New Media Partner ProgramThank you for your interest in the Maryland Department of Natural Resources' New Media Partner Program. We hope you choose to join the thousands of businesses and people who are helping us to spread the word about Maryland's natural resources. DNR Online was the first Maryland State department to go online back in 1995 and over the past five years we have built a web presence with the help of our staff and valuable input from the public and web savy people such as yourself.
Our Internet presence has been built with the focus of expanding service to the public and saving money and resources.
Today over fifty-nine thousand web pages of media, businesses and individuals link to our home page or to primary content areas within our website. Those who provide those links do a service for all people. They help to create a distribution channel for information about one of the best and most affordable (sometimes free) products around....Maryland's Natural Resources. We call these people who provide links to the DNR Online or content areas within our website our New Media Partners.
We want to make your jobs easier by providing you with the HTML code and FREE customized buttons you may use on your website to link to the areas you feel your website/webpage visitors would enjoy.
Please send an email to gdeems@dnr.state.md.us with your name, address, phone, website address and email address. We will log you as an official New Media Partner and make special offers available to you several times throughout the year. If you have any questions or problems with the links and/or artwork, please email Anthony Burrows.
Using DNR Online content (text and photos)
If you have a website and our content is of value to your site, you may link to any page on the DNR Online website. Our content is now being reviewed at a minimum of at least once a year and links should be active during that period. Please note that you should check the link to ensure that it is live and DNR Online will not be responsible for informing you that the link address has changed or the page has been removed. If your organization's policy does not allow you to link directly to us, you have some alternatives. You may post text from our site on yours, but you cannot copy the page layout and design. You cannot charge your users for the information and you MUST GIVE THE FOLLOWING CREDIT:
"This information is provided as a public service of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. www.dnr.maryland.gov"If you want to use photos or artwork from DNR Online you must make a specific request for the specific art and the url of it's location. If DNR Online owns the rights you will be given written permission to use the photo as long as you give DNR Online the following credit:"Photo courtesy of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. www.dnr.maryland.gov" If DNR Online does not own the photos/art, we will refer you to the copyright holder. Email content requests to gdeems@dnr.state.md.usThank you! You are helping DNR, enhancing the content on your website and helping those people who are using the Internet to find a treasure.......that's DNR Online.
Sincerely,
Gene Deems
DNR Internet and eGovernment Manager
gdeems@dnr.state.md.us
410-260-8014
March 21, 2004