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Remix, Reuse, or Repurpose This Blog Post! Creative Commons Teachable Moment

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Remix this Powerpoint. If you don't know about Creative Commons, it was founded in 2001 , with a mission to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing. (If

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It’s Not What You Know, It’s How You Learn

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About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. Use video for capturing knowledge from webinars, trainings, skype sessions, and so on – that can be easily remixed into how-to guides and explanations. The Power of Remixable Content.

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Social Media in the Nonprofit Workplace: Does Your Organization Need A Social Media Policy?

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But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Not only about the potential concerns and how to respond, but how the organization or its internal culture can embrace social media. Here come nagging policy questions. There needs to be discussion.

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Social Media Integrated Campaign Case Study Slam: SSIR Social Media on Purpose Conference

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Humberto Kam talked about how they engage with influencers and let them spread and remix their content. The next set of case studies came from ACLU-Northern California and IDEX and both touch on cultural differences and translation on social media channels and how to optimize. His take away: “Let the talent be themselves.”

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The newest Flickr Toy: Warholizer

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The students had to create an image that was representative of the organization's core values and then create another image that another student could remix. We had some discussion about how the photos were licensed in creative commons to facilitate this remixing. Anyway, here's the flickr set. We both said, why doesn't flickr do that?

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How Mature Is Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Practice?

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Not every nonprofit will go through the levels at the same pace due to organizational culture, capacity, or communication objectives, program design and target audiences. The organization has strong capacity in content creation as well as repurposing or remixing across channels. Their impact is to make the world a better place.

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Reflections on the Social Media Lab Workshop

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As a culture, we value answers over questions because answers allow us to take action faster, while asking questions makes us think. Many people have also remixed it. I also remixed the game recently to incorporate some of the latest tools such as mobile and location-based social networks.