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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

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I use the " BY Attribution " creative commons license. I've used this license. I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. No, but is more likely to happen is that people will use the work, use the license honestly, and improve the work.

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My Slides from the Screencasting Session and Please Vote.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are my powerpoint slides from the Screencasting Session at NTC. If you didn't write down the wiki, it's here and if you didn't get a hard copy of the Idealware article, it's here. I've put the presentation (and almost all my other presentations) into Slide Share. no more than 3.5 There's some execellent content there.

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Liz Strauss Asks - Are Crayons Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For today, we'll be working on the specific learning objective: To understand the basic concepts and principles of social media I spent a bit of time searching through slide shows on Slideshare for a good primer. I think this slide show by Lee White is one of the best ever! Leave a comment or drop your feedback on the NTEN wiki here.

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

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The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.” Poke around the web site and their wiki to learn more about their work and be sure to watch this brief, inspiration video about " Shared Culture."). What does that mean?".

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The Social Life of PowerPoint Presentations (or why I really love SlideShare)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. In fact, I have a " Remix This PowerPoint " presentation up on slide share right now!

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Demystifying Social Media Tools and the Social Media Game for Nonprofits/VolComs - Preview Version Available

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We've planned and built the materials (which are a work in progress) on the Social Media Wiki - which also houses a draft guide on Social Media that David is writing for NCVO. The slides and notes with links to loads of resources and examples can be found here. The wiki is under "by" 2.0 Feedback appreciated.

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It is difficult to let go of the old ways. from powerpoint to wikitation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A Wikitation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. And, if you're lucky enough to have colleagues who have used wikitations on similar topics and have made them available under CC "BY" license, you could certainly rework their material. I got about 3 slides in when I realized that my brain no longer operates that way.