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We Met Twitter's $3k Matching Challenge! Happy Birthday CC!
by allison UncategorizedThanks to everyone who donated to help us meet Twitter’s $3,000 matching giving challenge in record time! This is particularly great news, since today marks CC’s 7th birthday, so thanks to Twitter and thanks to everyone who donated – we’ve now raised a total of $6,000 toward our annual fundraising campaign! We’re honored to have…
Twitter Wants to Double Your Donation to our Annual Campaign!
by allison UncategorizedThis week marks Creative Commons’ 7th birthday, and Twitter is helping us celebrate by generously matching all donations made to our annual fundraising campaign for the next week, up to $3,000. Even if you’ve already contributed, give whatever you can today – Twitter will match your donation so that it goes twice as far towards…
December's ccSalon SF (12/17/09) + Help Us Celebrate CC's 7th Birthday!
by allison UncategorizedDecember’s ccSalon SF will be a celebration of CC’s 7 years and the wrap-up of our 2009 annual fundraising campaign, so if you’re located in the SF Bay Area, we hope to see you there! On the evening’s agenda: We’ll hear from Twitter‘s General Counsel, Alex Macgillivray. Alex was previously Deputy General Counsel at Google…
Student Journalism 2.0 takes off at The Paly Voice
by Jane Park Open EducationRemember back in April when I first mentioned Student Journalism 2.0, ccLearn’s pilot project to bring Creative Commons and the power of new media into high school journalism classes? Well since then ccLearn and two SF Bay Area high school journalism classes have been busy getting the ball rolling. Yesterday, The Paly Voice, the student-run…
Cadyou Takes CC to CAD & Digital Design
by fbenenson Open CultureAll sorts of interesting things show up in our Twitter search feed, and yesterday we were thrilled to come across Cadyou via @sketchupshop. Cadyou is a community launched by Tom Moor in late 2008 whose goal is to create a resource of free, high quality files for everyone to use, available in the Public Domain…
TweetCC Lets You CC License Your Twitter Feed
by fbenenson Open CultureUntil now, the only way to mix your microblog and Creative Commons licenses was to sign up for the free-as-in-speech service identi.ca (or run your own instance of Laconica), which requires all posts to be under our Attribution license. But as of February 18th, thanks to the work of UK author Andy Clarke, you can…
Microplanet Creative Commons
by mike UncategorizedLast week we mentioned that you can follow short updates from Creative Commons on the microblogging services twitter and identi.ca. Identi.ca has a feature allowing you to view (or subscribe via a feed) all microbloggers a particular account subscribes to. So we’ve made the CC identi.ca account subscribe to the microblogs of CC jurisdiction project…
The Commons in 140 Characters or Less
by fbenenson UncategorizedSo we’re a little late to the game on this one but we’ve just set up our microblogging accounts. Follow and send updates to creativecommons on Twitter or creativecommons on identi.ca and tell your friends!