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How to license mixed media, without a law degree

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Icommons comes an incredibly useful legal brief to remixing media in the age of participatory media and campaigns by Steve Vosloo, Digital Hero Book Project. s licensing and that of the sound bite? When deciding where to indicate licensing information, it is again a case of ??? license to play the song.

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How grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients can do great things together with data and evaluation

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

This is not actually a photo from the dialogue series. We refrained from taking photos, because we wanted to foster an atmosphere of candor and comfort as grantors and grantees engaged in conversation about a difficult topic. However, it is a favorite photo from another recent Tech Networks of Boston event. contact-form]. __.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors.

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Personal Fundraising Remixed: I Love CC, Do You?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. 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."

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. Do numbers only matter? There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning.

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Beyond Broadcast: Wrap Up

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Geoffrey and used with permission. He made this point: But, participatory culture is changing the nature and topology of ours. I had to go the extra step to email Geoffrey and request permission to republish the photo with attribution. Geoffrey has an excellent collection of photos from the conference here

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Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Pratham Books: Snapshots from Bookaroo 2010 : Children's Literature Festival. 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. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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