Tag Archives: Creative Commons

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 [...]

A new Arabic-language blogging guide

Written by jessica. Posted on May 26, 2011. Filed under Arabization, For Local NGOs, For Trainers, News, Resources, Training & Coaching. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , . No comments.
cover image of the Arabic blogging guide
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Cairo has published a new 197-page blogging guide in Arabic عبر واتحررـ دليل التدوين (Express and Free Yourself: A Guide to Blogging). It’s released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. ★ Hat tip: @MagdaAbuFadil, director of the Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut and a blogger [...]

San Francisco Treats

Written by jessica. Posted on January 18, 2011. Filed under News. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . 3 Comments.
The Google Street sign in Mountain View, California.
SMEX spent last week in San Francisco, California, just about the center of the universe for social media. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and a myriad of other social media giants and upstarts all call the city or its Silicon Valley surroundings home. We went as part of the lead-up to a new project, called [...]