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15 Places to Find Free Images for Your Blog

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The official Creative Commons website lets users search websites for free-to-use images from a variety of sources, including Google Images, Flickr and the Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons. It’s beloved as a go-to by many top bloggers. Creative Commons Search.

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Getty Images vs Creative Commons and Privacy: What Bloggers Need to Know

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Getty Images recently announced a new image embed feature that allows bloggers (and others) to access and use their vast library of images for non-commercial purposes. At least European bloggers should consider including statements about Getty’s iframe and the Twitter/Tumblr sharing buttons included in the iframe. Bing Search.

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How We Got a Link from The Huffington Post

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By David Shankbone (Own work) [CC-BY-3.0 ([link] via Wikimedia Commons There are plenty of blogs that get links from HuffPo on a daily basis, but this was a first for us. The trick is to get in on the ground level so that other bloggers will find your post when doing their research. This is how we got it.

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Open Community Case Study – American Library Association

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This post is part of our regular series of Open Community case studies, in which intrepid association blogger and freelance writer Deirdre Reid will be digging into associations (and other kinds of organizations when relevant) who are living and breathing their open communities in the ways we describe in the book.

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Open Community Case Study – Empowering the Periphery

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This post is part of our regular series of Open Community case studies, in which intrepid association blogger and freelance writer Deirdre Reid will be digging into associations (and other kinds of organizations when relevant) who are living and breathing their open communities in the ways we describe in the book.

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Common Creativity: Understanding the Rules and Rights Around “Free” Images on the Web

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Thanks to sites like Flickr, morgueFile, Wikimedia, and Pixabay (just to name a few), thousands of free images are at your fingertips. Example: Wikimedia uses this license and it is recommended for all similar sites that share and incorporate various bits of information. Enter: the world of Creative Commons licenses.

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Where to Find Free Images Online

ProBlogger

Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons has almost 25 million freely usable media files. Public Domain Images are bloggers who have curated all the images in the public domain they’ve come across in one handy place. A Prettier Web has beautiful (and quite girly) free images for bloggers and creatives. Getty Images.