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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It creates a gift economy and that help you build your network. 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. to Change The World.

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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. And, I just got an even better gift.

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12 Prompts for Generous Living & Blogging

Have Fun - Do Good

Thursday, February 2 Live it: Jot down ideas for gifts or cards for friends, family and colleagues who have February and March birthdays. Blog it: Share a home made, or do-good gift idea on your blog. If you can’t take a photo, find a photo on Flickr with an Attribution License. Blog it: Share the photo on your blog.

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Pitch Your Cause or Organization and Help Me Write My Next Blogher Post

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My assignment: Recommend 10 (or more) nonprofits or causes that people may consider as a holiday gift. Describe what you think a contribution to this charity in someone's honor as a holiday gift would be an awesome gift. Extra bonus: point me to a fantastic image (cc licensed) in flickr that can be used to illustrate the post.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop. There are thriving groups of Flickr users who share photos of themselves imitating art. A great shot of your institution, shared on Flickr, serves as a free piece of marketing that may generate ticket sales. And it's not just about recall.

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Exhibits and Artifacts as Social Objects

Museum 2.0

Flickr has photos. Facebook has a diversified object model--for some people, friend updates are the essential object, for others, it's virtual gifts. Turn invitations into gifts. On Flickr, some users post photos and others view them. I was intrigued by this article by Jyri Engeström about "object-centered sociality."

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Jim does Tunis

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The links link to a few of the pictures I took and posted on Flickr. While I actually was momentarily tempted by the mint tea and the ceremony to buy a rug, I remember that Virginia was quite clear when I had asked about gifts from Tunisia, that rugs were not a part of the list. to the U.S. dollars, more like US$10. My new friends.

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