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Who needs copy-paste? Search for freely licensed images online

Written by jessica. Posted on January 31, 2012. Filed under For Participants, For Trainers, News, Training & Coaching. Tagged , , , , , , , . No comments.
Yesterday, as part of a train-the-trainer assessment, I gave a session about how to use Flickr + Creative Commons to find beautiful images available for remixing and reuse online. There are more than 200 million Creative Commons–licensed photos on Flickr, many of them not relevant to you, of course, but many of them beautiful (like [...]

Fundraising for Human Rights: A New Tactics Dialogue

Written by jessica. Posted on January 19, 2012. Filed under Communities, For Donors & Partners, For Local NGOs. Tagged , , , . No comments.
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This month’s online dialogue at New Tactics in Human Rights is about fundraising for human rights. Here’s the lead-in: Protecting and promoting human rights is valuable and important work. In order to do this work, organizations need financial resources. Although there are many funders that recognize the value in financially supporting human rights efforts, many [...]

Rising Voices Accepting Proposals for Citizen Media Outreach

Written by jessica. Posted on January 18, 2012. Filed under News. No comments.
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Got an idea for extending the power of digital and social media to underrepresented voices in your community? Write it down and put together a small budget and send it off to to Rising Voices by February 3. Note that the project’s primary activities should be to provide citizen media training workshops to the target [...]