Tell Kelsey!
We have our athletic librarian volunteer aka Curator of Shared Awesomeness, Kelsey Wiens poised to gather and share your stories, to help grow the global case-study data-base of people who are winning by daring to share.
Are you doing something that you believe is an unusual or world-changing or simply beautiful expression of CC in action? Please mail us >>
Examples?
Take a look at Creative Commons’ beautiful, freshly-published book (available, naturally as a free download too) The Power of Open to get a sense of what we’re looking for.
Even if you aren’t doing anything particularly impressive yet, the Web sees your good deeds, and rewards in turn:
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You’re with the 21st century copyright program, and you’ve applied Creative Commons licences to your work or research. You are afforded legal protection, but promotion is part of the benefit of CC.
Search engines will know how to ensure that your work is noticed through the machine-readable code built into your license. Youtube or Flickr among other social media platforms have ways to promote and get your work noticed now that you’ve opted to share your creations. Whether you’re sharing a curriculum, an engineering diagram, animation clip or medical research – if you’ve added your CC license your work is indexed clearly and discoverable.
Thank you for enriching our shared digital commons.
“Criticise by Creating” – Michelangelo Buonarroti
