Personal Fundraising Remixed: I Love CC, Do You?

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture.  As an activist and evangelist for creative commons' values and tools, I want to play a major role in helping to ensure that our culture remains as free and accessible as possible. 

That's why I remixed the fundraising widget on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign.  I hope you will do the same and donate too.

I donated $75 so I could get the t-shirt and photograph myself in it - and added it to all my social networking profiles.  Here's what it looks like on Facebook and Twitter.

 

That's how much I appreciate Creative Commons licensing, no love Creative Commons. 

So much so that I release almost everything I do under CC licensing - with the least restrictive license -- the "by." That means I've made it easy to share my work with you and others.  I've reaped the benefits too .. my photos, my articles, my videos have traveled around the world literally.  It's help me build an audience and I'm sure I've helped some of you too.

And I want to make sure that my kids still enjoy this freedom when they grow up.

And I'm teaching my kids about Creative Commons too. Just the other day, my son had to create a slide show about beavers. So, we searched for creative commons licensed photos. I taught him the four different licenses. He's only 8, but was able to not only tell his classmates about beavers, but also told them why and how he can use those photos from the Internet! He's only 8 too!

So, join me in putting that widget on your blog, social networking profile,  etc - and tell the world why you love Creative Commons.  And, if you can - please consider making a donation to the Creative Commons annual fund this year.