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How Creative Commons Helped Spread My Ideas To Millions Of People!

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I'm a huge fan of Creative Commons , a nonprofit organization that makes it easy for people to both share their original work with the world and build upon the work of others.

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13 Sites to Find Free Creative Commons Music for Videos

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Fortunately, you can score (no pun intended) the perfect soundtrack for your next video for free by using free creative commons music. As with free stock photos and free stock videos , you can peruse creative commons music libraries to find exactly what you need. What is creative commons music?

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PR Ethics … “You CAN Handle the Truth”

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But how should we, as public-facing representatives of an organization, be expected to tell those publics what’s going on or what we’re planning without causing even further damage to our organizational reputation? Image: James & Carol Lee via Unsplash, Creative Commons CC0. Tell the Truth. What to do? What to say?

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Ready Yourself Now for a Mobile Only Future

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Of course, as you figure out what automation works for your mobile-only marketing , you will most likely take advantage of a wide range of templates through which you and your organization can provide instant alerts, surveys and other important messages for your customers. Image: Alejandro Escamilla via Unsplash, Creative Commons CC0.

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A Case Study: Orchestrating a Harmonious Message

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The nonprofit has evolved from an annual choir concert into an organization with dozens of programs and hundreds of volunteers who contribute more than 16,000 hours of volunteer service each year. However, as the organization has evolved, Harmony Project struggled to evolve its messaging to accurately convey its current role in the community.

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Can I Use This Photo on Social Media? Understanding Image Copyright

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Check out the World Intellectual Property Organization FAQs. What is Creative Commons? Creative commons is a set of licenses that turn “all rights reserved” copyrights into “some rights reserved.” In Creative Commons, this is often listed as CC0 1.0 Creative Commons search portal.

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Content marketing: feeling ripped off?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Official Creative Commons logo. Just last week an organization wholly-unconnected to a recent client project presented Thornley Fallis produced videos as their own work. Then you notice that someone, a competitor even, is ripping you off! Someone has taken your original content and is using it online as if it were their own.

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