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

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Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. 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. It gets your work out there.

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This is a "Best of" for finding CC "BY" photos in Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week when I blogged that won the Creative Commons flickr photo contest, the prize I got was Lessig's on my answering machine. 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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What the Third Sector Can Learn from the Public Sector

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Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. All of the content produced and published by the New York State Senate is published under a Creative Commons license. Since transparency is only one leg of the stool, San Francisco also sponsored an app development contest to get people involved in using the data for the public good.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. From Flickr User EJK. Flickr Farm. That's what I use and why I use it).

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. An interesting conversation percolating about Open Content on the NpTech blogopshere sparked by a thoughtful post from Michelle Murrain commenting on the licensing of the new Journal of Information Technology and Social Change. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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