Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Web FlickrCC via Stephen Downes Search for and edit photos on flickr that use creative commons licensing. Search on Flickr with some Magic Another way to search flickr for creative commons images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2012

So, given that the presentation was published under a creative commons license, I decided to remix it and remove the troublesome words. To me this a good chart or reminder of being a good curator. The content curator’s code is a useful framework, but I wish it was as easy to use as a creative commons license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

Flickr Photo by Real Blades, Creative Common License. This year, I was really looking forward to taking a holiday break and not feel stressed about deadlines, tasks, or the never ending parade of meeting requests and emails. I’m overwhelmed getting back into the daily grind, how about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2016

Change will require more of this kind of shift in thinking, but also a real shift in organizational practices around how we license and share what we learn. The use of open licenses (like creative commons) and open repositories (like IssueLab ) are two such shifts. So we are hopeful this is a trend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.” The licenses let you pick how to publish your work and grant others the right to reuse it. The license itself doesn't specifically define attribution. What does that mean?".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Subsequently, I invited Gautam John who works with Pratham Books to write a guest post about their social publishing strategy where he briefly touched upon their use of Creative Commons licenses. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. We now use Creative Commons licenses everywhere!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

Earlier this week, I wrote a post called " What happens when you set your content free using Creative Commons Licensing? " I explained why I set my own work free, provided some examples, and pointed to a new tool. The First Giving Blog has a post " Riffing On Creative Commons License ". And how do you respond?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Also, for our Creative Commons licensed books to be remixed/repurposed by the community in whatever way they wish to. Flickr : Documentation of the work we do and also to upload our Creative Commons licensed illustrations so that they can be remixed/reused. (See See this blog post from Creative Commons ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

That's how much I appreciate Creative Commons licensing, no love Creative Commons. So much so that I release almost everything I do under CC licensing - with the least restrictive license -- the "by." So, we searched for creative commons licensed photos. I taught him the four different licenses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Today we have proudly announced that we are releasing our entire database of volunteer opportunities to outside developers under a Creative Commons license to expand the non-commercial use of our free service. The sky is the limit. We’ll have more information for you shortly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2007

Interesting article over at the icommons.org site called CC Licensing Practice Reviewed Alek Tarkowski, ccPoland It mentions an experiment in a dutch town where they removed the traffic signs or the rules. It goes to point to some alternative viewpoints on cc licensing: A similar argument is made by Niva Elkin-Koren in ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This session will define core concepts including the Creative Commons license, and then offer examples of how open content is already benefitting the nonprofit sector. I'll start the session with a very brief overview of examples ( NGO in a box - Open Publishing ) and an overview of the CC licenses. Pick tools, publishing license 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2007

He gave an informative overview of the creative commons licensing and how TechSoup is using the licensing. Some good points about why nonprofits should use creative commons licensing: Reducing time and cost of granting permission. I am sitting in an affinity group session for nonprofits and creative commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

That's a photo I took of Marc Canter at the first Blogher Conference in July, 2005 I put it in flickr with an "All Rights Reserved" license which is the flickr default. Back then, I was totally ignorant of creative commons licensing versus all rights reserved. I had never changed it. ve always set my content free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2006

If the photo is of, say, a TV screen showing a newscast or a newspaper page showing a staff photo, then you still might be liable for copyright violation despite the terms of the CC license listed on Flickr or elsewhere. In that case, their CC license is invalid. Does the Flickr user really have rights to the image?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

Mike is writing some great stuff on remix culture and creative commons license. Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. He goes to muse about the differences in CC licensings and impact on remix culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

Julie Fanning is a licensed clinical social worker (MSW, LCSW), and she also gives advice to those pursuing a degree or career in social work over at MSW. Burnout doesn’t have to be inevitable. As long as you take a little time to do even a few of these things, you’ll have no trouble remembering why you love non-profit fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2006

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

We had some discussion about how the photos were licensed in creative commons to facilitate this remixing. Last night, I had a skype call with Mike Seyfang from Aussie land, who is trying to help educate us all about the subtleties of choosing a cc license and the tradeoffs/barriers of remix culture vs non-commercial use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2007

And, PicNet has some hilarious photos of the inflation party here -- unfortunately the photos are not licensed with Creative Commons license, they are all rights reserved. Christine.net has great coverage of the actual March of the Penguins on Friday. So, can't blog them until I get permission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Origina l photo CC by license in Flickr User Start Cooking. I found the above image in Flickr under a license that allows me to remix it -- so I changed the title. The online facilitation list recently had a thread about choosing wikis. The discussion included some pointers to the tools as well as some clarifying questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

Here's my first blog post about the power of the CC By license and more to come in the newsletter. If you work in the nonprofit or nonprofit space and an interesting story to tell about creative commons licensing, open education, access to knowledge, and the like, drop me a line in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Credit: Awesome artwork by Faith Goble used from Flickr on a Creative Commons license. When we started Zoetica, as its founders – Beth Kanter , Geoff Livingston , and Kami Huyse – we wanted it to be a different kind of company. Less of an agency and more of a change agent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

" In fact, Harry is being interviewed by a national publication next week about his thoughts on creative commons licensing. When we selected a license for the slideshare, he selected the by/nc. Note he also gave the photo of him that I took on our walk the correct creative commons attribution, "photo by mommy."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2007

The API key would be free and simple to access and governed by Creative Commons licensing. Everything built off of the API would have to be licensed similarly, encouraging an overall culture of openness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

In addition, each winner will be granted a one-year license for the Network for Good API to be donated to an organization of their choice (if the winner is an organization, it can choose to donate the API to itself). Winners in each category will be awarded a $10,000 prize by a panel of judges present at the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

While working at this nonprofit, I learned about Salesforce Foundation and their philanthropic model that allowed us to receive 10 free licenses, the ball started rolling. There awer too many systems. It doid not support their mission. We migrated from Excel to Salesforce and doubled our income from donations within 12 months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

" I would have done a remix of this photo with that line as a speech bubble using one of the flickr remix tools, but the best photo of Weinberger in flickr was not licensed with a Creative Commons by license, but all rights reserved. That prevents strangers building something together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

You should also keep an eye on licensing and copyright. We made it clear that our contest was using a Creative Commons License and recommended using Revver. but YouTube/Google are the most popular online video services and it's not clear whether they respect the Creative Commons Licenses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Generic license This article was originally posted on Getting to the Point at [link] by Katya Andresen: Katya, blogger, writer (Robin Hood Marketer), COO Network for Good. Make sure there IS a good case for your initiative and if it does fail, share and learn from what went wrong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Your numerical data can tell stories , but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement? Do numbers only matter? There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. The only valid data is quantitative data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2006

I really, really, really wanted to put a smile emoticon :-) in the face but damn it isn't licensed under Creative Commons By License. Then my next thought was "Does this represent fair use?" " Amalyah ? So, of course I wanted to remix it. so guess I can't. right, Mike? ). his death.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. The CC licensed work on Flickr and CCmixter are wonderful resources. transparent open licensing, such as Creative Commons. One thing you'll notice is that the presentation itself is a remix of a remix. to Change The World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Otherwise, all content is made available to all through a Creative Commons license. All donations are tax deductible and if a news organization buys exclusive rights to the content, your donation will be reimbursed. It's a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come together and collaborate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2007

What's cool is that you can remix the chart graphics (see below) and Swivel has CC licensing. I need to finish my Open Content/Creative Commons card game before I leave tommorrow. so, while working on it I found the above data and just had to remix and blog it. The chart was generated by a program called Swivel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

If more of us are screencasting, then all I have to do is remix other people's work, provided they've licensed their material using creative commons licensing. Actually, as I mentioned during the session, the reason I put everything online (it was all done a few weeks in advance as part of my preparation) it is because of my evil plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

I asked permission and also suggested they switch the license. Unfortunately, most of the photos are under an "All Rights Reserved" copyright which can be a barrier to spreading them because you have to ask permission. It's cool to see these in flickr, an even cooler in Second Life - like the Avatars Against War.

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