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

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Remix this Powerpoint. If you don't know about Creative Commons, it was founded in 2001 , with a mission to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing. (If

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Bring a Question: Creative Commons Hosts TechSoup Social Channels on September 17, 2014

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That's why Creative Commons offers a handy standardized list of licenses for creative works. These licenses allow you to give permission for others to share your work, and also to define how your work can be shared. In fact, that's exactly the kind of license TechSoup uses for most of our content! Your Questions.

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Creative Commons Licensing Teachable Moment and An Apology!

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of the power of the "by" license and had just turned my default to it. So, as I explained to the editor in an apology accepted email, this was teachable moment for me: Thank you for the apology. I put that photo under that license because that was the default licensing available in flickr. I appreciate it!

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. I'm nervous. It's messy.

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

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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. She is the third person to mention a remix. Much better than emailing as attachment.

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Beyond Broadcast: Wrap Up

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

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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. And, I just got an even better gift. This is the value I get from blogging - the ability to connect with other people around a common interest.

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