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Creative Commons Licensed Music for Your Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He made a good point about adding music. He mentioned using Creative Commons licensed music. This made me think of some recommendations for music that Ivan Boothe mentioned recently (can't remember exactly which nonprofit tech list serv). Here are some resources I've found for music. And if you???

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Where to Find Great Free Music for a Video

Tech Soup

If you're creating a video, a podcast, an online training, or any other project that might benefit from adding some sweet tunes, the Free Music Archive (FMA) offers more than 80,000 free, completely legal-to-use audio downloads. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. Visit the Music for Video page.

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Open Thread: How Do You Feel About Music in Museums?

Museum 2.0

Should museums play music - in public spaces and or in galleries? Pros for music: Music helps designers frame the atmosphere for the intended experience at the museum. You can pick music that helps people get into a reflective, active, or social mood--whatever you are trying to achieve. Licensing fees.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It creates an opportunity to have public benefit being balanced with business interests. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. I had never heard of it.

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TSDigs: Before You Hit Record Webinar Recap

Tech Soup

As for equipment, both for pre- and post-production, Vázquez’s first suggestion is for nonprofits to contact their local public access channel, which can be a great source for camera and sound tools. Obtaining free music, photos, or video clips is possible through online searches for creative commons licensed content.

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Keeping the Rich History of Virginia Preserved and Secure

Tech Soup

There is a $5 fee to use the library, but it is open to the public for history and genealogy research. The library gets a mix of both general public visitors looking up family history as well as graduate students, writers, historians, and other professionals. Keeping History Protected.

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Guest Post by Stacey Monk: Dogooders Won’t Change the World (Alone)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Generic license ). How can we develop audiences, cultivate care and empathy, and find alternate funding that doesn’t require public popularity so that important stories get told? WEINGARTEN | Rolling Stone Music Critic| @1000TimesYes. I hate it…It’s not the music that’s the best, it’s the music that the most people can stand.

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