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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Working with Limited Internet Access

Tech Soup

There's an interesting discussion happening on MetaFilter about how to use the Web with bandwidth limitations. Here are some of my favorite suggestions: Rather than visiting all of the Web sites you need to see every day, start using RSS feeds. Most Web browsers allow you to disable all images: they'll simply appear as rectangles.

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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. Flash (and, therefore, YouTube) is working, as is Java.

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In Case You Missed It

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Here's a synopsis: You know those crazy Flash videos where you can try to trick your friends into thinking they've been featured in a news story by playing on the age old psychological tenet that deep down, everybody believes they deserve to be famous? Creative Commons wants to hear how you use their license. Check it out.

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Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Facebook Tips for Nonprofit Success – See What Others are Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. They do this with compelling imagery, a simple form and the ability to get to their main web site. Stand up 2 Cancer.

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Two Truths and a Lie: TechSoup New Products Edition

Tech Soup

Unlike many other subscription services, Box offers TechSoup members 10 perpetual licenses to the service. GoDaddy's Website Builder service lets you build your own custom website, even if you have no web design experience. Learners can access the courses via a web browser or any iOS or Android device. Two Truths and a Lie.

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Museums and Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you click through to the license, it says "all rights reserved." Jim laughed and told me that the photo was in the public domain so I could blog it anyway I wanted and that he was going to change the default license. The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup.

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