Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

On the serious side, I wish there were some clear guidelines about what exactly is fair use in the nonprofit space. TechSoup recently published a FAQ about " Borrowing Images from the Web. There is some advice on fair use: Don't I get to reprint an image without permission under the "fair use" doctrine?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

This photograph is part of The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr. If you click through to the license, it says "all rights reserved." Jim laughed and told me that the photo was in the public domain so I could blog it anyway I wanted and that he was going to change the default license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. Here's how the Creative Commons licenses work.

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