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License your photos and more on Facebook

Amy Sample Ward

This blog has a Creative Commons license. Because Creative Commons licenses help creators, sharers, and readers enjoy online content respectfully. So, when I saw that Creative Commons released a version of the licensing and an application for Facebook , I had to check it out! Why Use Creative Commons in Facebook ?

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HOW TO: Add Your Nonprofit to Facebook Places and Claim Your New Places Page

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many nonprofit communicators are now aware that Facebook Places launched for iPhone users on August 18, but less known is that Facebook users can also use Facebook Places on touch.facebook.com. At this point, most nonprofits will only be able to “Add&# themselves to Facebook Places. It does work.

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Advocacy & Facebook Political Ads: What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know

Connection Cafe

What’s up with Facebook Political Ads? If you use Facebook, you probably have noticed how the news feed presents political or issue-related ads. All of this, of course, is in the interest of greater transparency following the revelation of how Russian hackers used Facebook in an attempt to sway voters during the 2016 U.S

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Social Sustainability: Why You Need to Tell Your Story (and how to do it).

Greater Giving

A business that conducts itself ethically, while working to give back to the community, will eventually gain the trust and support of the community. This, often unspoken, acceptance is referred to as an organization’s social license to operate (SLO). As a nonprofit, you’re already doing the work in the world that matters.

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Bring a Question: Creative Commons Hosts TechSoup Social Channels on September 17, 2014

Tech Soup

Sharing is an essential part of storytelling, and our friends at Creative Commons are devoted to expanding the number of creative works that are available to (legally!) That's why Creative Commons offers a handy standardized list of licenses for creative works. What Creative Commons license should I use for my work?

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A new Foundation in my career

Judi Sohn

Well, I could tell you about how I’m on the Foundation’s Tech & Products team (specifically on the product engineering side) and how it’s all about working with the broader community and the Foundation to evangelize and grow investment in open source projects. I truly enjoyed working there and I learned so much.

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. That’s the Caltech advantage! Richard Feynman once tried to reduce an advanced physics concept to a freshman lecture.

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