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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. It creates a gift economy and that help you build your network. It creates a gift economy and that help you build your network. I use the " BY Attribution " creative commons license. I've used this license.

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Great reads from around the web on May 20th

Amy Sample Ward

" AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners. Here are my top trends in sustainable social media (hat tip to Reuters)."

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What We Talk About When Talk About Open Data

Tech Soup

This post was written by Chris Bernard, the research and editorial director for Idealware , a nonprofit that creates impartial research and written resources to help other nonprofits make smart decisions about software. You can see some of the apps generated by the contest at civicapps.org.).

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

What drives you and motivates you to create change in your community? Our contest begins today, August 29, 2016, and closes September 11, 2016. Symantec helps nonprofits make their mission possible. What is your nonprofit's mission? Now is the time to send in your nonprofit's story! b) Void Jurisdictions.

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This is a "Best of" for finding CC "BY" photos in Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week when I blogged that won the Creative Commons flickr photo contest, the prize I got was Lessig's on my answering machine. In today's email, J Wynia, shared with me a tool he created with the Flickr API that lets me search for interesting photos that I can remix or use and automatically generates the attribution.

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WORTH Trust Solves Tech Woes to Help More Kids in India

Tech Soup

Creating Opportunities for Training and Employment. WORTH, which stands for Workshop for Rehabilitation and Training of the Handicapped, aims to create opportunities for vocational training and avenues for employment for people with different needs in India. It is this section of society that WORTH Trust aims to help. spanhidden.

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NetSquared Celebrates Progress and Looks Forward to 2015

Tech Soup

The goal is to create strong, self-sufficient communities of nonprofit technology professionals (and accidental techies too!). 15 groups held live events which helped drive video submissions to the contest and allowed TechSoup to reach more NGOs with educational opportunities. Image Name: Author / License. HTML EXAMPLE.