article thumbnail

Best Practices Using Creatives Commons License

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Cambodia4kids Creative Commons License. This post titled " To My Readers: Avoiding Plagiarism, Understanding the Creative Commons License " made some great points about giving attribution in blog posts beyond a link. More about Open Content and Creative Commons licenses here.

License 50
article thumbnail

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

License 56
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Growth of Creative Commons Photos on Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I need to finish my Open Content/Creative Commons card game before I leave tommorrow. What's cool is that you can remix the chart graphics (see below) and Swivel has CC licensing. so, while working on it I found the above data and just had to remix and blog it. The chart was generated by a program called Swivel.

Flickr 50
article thumbnail

NetSquared Local Events in the First Half of August

Tech Soup

Kevin Lo reports from San Francisco’s latest event, Open Source and Open Data in Action. Image: Parallel Session F , creative commons licensed on Flickr. Event social media open data NetSquared tsevent crowdfunding' What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? What is a social presentation ?

article thumbnail

Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. There are thriving groups of Flickr users who share photos of themselves imitating art. And I think the fourth and fifth are bizarre and ungenerous to visitors. And it's not just about recall.

Museum 54
article thumbnail

Top 10 Sources for Free Images

Tech Soup

Creative Commons Search is another search engine that searches multiple sites simultaneously, including Flickr, Open Clip Art Library , Pixabay , and several more. Flickr is one of our go-to places for Creative Commons- licensed images. You can search by topic, location, type, author, license, and source.

Images 36
article thumbnail

Open Source Thinking: A Remix Wikitation of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web2.0 Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools. Open source thinking is sharing and remixing. That's a hard thing to do.