Creative Commons - User contributions [en]

Social Justice

2010-03-07T22:44:55Z

Elliottbledsoe:

Examples of CC-licensing in social justice and human rights projects.

== Global ==

[http://www.apc.org The Association of Progressive Communications] which works for human rights and social justice in ICT's uses CC on their website, and some publications.

[http://www.opendemocracy.net Open Democracy] "is committed to human rights and democracy. We aim to ensure that marginalised views and voices are heard" uses CC BY NC as default but not all articles are CC By NC (and their link to the licences from the logo is broken)

[http://globalvoicesonline.org/ Global Voices] is a community of more than 200 bloggers around the world who work together to bring you translations and reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media. All content created by Global Voices is published under CC BY.

[http://hub.witness.org/en/node/43 The WITNESS Video Hub (the “Hub”)] is a service that allows anyone, anywhere to upload and view human rights related media and create or engage with communities and proposed calls to action around the abuses they witness.

[http://mobileactive.org/ MobileActive.org] connects people, organizations, and resources using mobile technology for social change.

[http://www.soros.org/about_site/terms The Open Society Institute] works to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.

[http://www.hrw.org/en/permissions Human Rights Watch] is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.

[http://architectureforhumanity.org Architecture for Humanity] a non-profit organisation which promotes social design, seeking architectural solutions to humanitarian crises. See also the CC [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Architecture_for_Humanity case study for AFH].

== Australia ==

[http://engagemedia.org/ EngageMedia] is an open video platform for presenting and disseminating social justice and environmental film in the Asia Pacific. See also the CC [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/EngageMedia_Study case study for EngageMedia].

[http://www.apc.org.au The Association of Progressive Communications Australia] (APC.au) is the Australian affiliate of The Association of Progressive Communications. Like APC, APC.au uses CC on their website.

[http://efa.org.au Electronic Frontiers Australia] (EFA) is a non-profit national organisation representing Internet users concerned with on-line freedoms and rights. EFA uses a CC BY 2.5 Australia licence on their website.

== Brazil ==

[http://www.surjournal.org/eng/index.php Sur – International Journal on Human Rights] is a biannual journal published in English, Portuguese and Spanish by Sur – Human Rights University Network.

== European Union ==

[http://www.openrightsgroup.org Open Rights Group] is a non-profit company funded by donors representing Internet users.

== Hong Kong ==

[http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/InMediaHK InMediaHK] is the main citizen media website in Hong Kong, specialising in social issues, current affair commentaries and citizen reportage.

== Latin America and Caribbean ==

[http://logosundp.org/ Knowledge Management Unit] is part of the UNDP Regional Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean and is the responsible facility for implementing UNDP knowledge management strategy in the region.

== New Zealand ==

[http://creativefreedom.org.nz/ Creative Freedom Foundation (artists' rights)] in New Zealand uses CC for their website here

== Poland ==
A watchdog organization called [http://indeks73.pl/en_,index.php "Indeks 73"] ("Index 73") uses CC BY SA for all its content. The organization deals with censorship issues, in particular artistic freedom, and to some extent deals therefore with free culture.

== South Africa ==

[http://www.sacsis.org.za The South African Civil Society Information Service], which is a nonprofit news agency promoting social justice in South Africa, uses CC By SA 2.5_Za

== Taiwan ==
[http://www.coolloud.org.tw/ Cool Loud] a website for labor rights advocacy and news in Taiwan that uses CC licenses. It is operated by the Taiwan Association for Information about and Education for Labors, 台灣勞工資訊教育協會.

== United States==

[http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr Health and Human Rights] is published by the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights within the Harvard School of Public Health.

Talk:Case Studies

2010-03-03T11:37:59Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* WANTED: Mashup Australia */

Write in here if you have [[Casestudies/HOWTO|unanswered questions]] about adding a [[Case_Studies|case study]] or if you have a request.

== WANTED: ITETHIC ==

See http://itethic.pbwiki.com I'm trying to add the Creative Commons content from the ITETHIC class [[User:Pageman|pageman]] 22:27, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
:I left you a message on your user talk page -- you have to confirm your email address. [[User:Mike Linksvayer|Mike Linksvayer]] 22:39, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

== WANTED: Chris Kelty/2bits ==

See http://savageminds.org/2009/01/24/two-bits-at-six-months/ and http://savageminds.org/2009/01/30/two-bits-smackdown-author-vs-lazyweb/ for some relevant observations/data --[[User:Mike Linksvayer|Mike Linksvayer]] 03:16, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

== WANTED: Prelinger Archives ==

Old interview at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7064

Case study should be up to date and explain the role of the public domain in enabling the business. --[[User:Mike Linksvayer|Mike Linksvayer]] 17:28, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

== WANTED: Wikitravel and Wikitravel Press ==

Nice roundtrip story -- free content bought by company even though they could have copied it -- [http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/10/10/community-the-new-ip/ the community of maintainers is the hard to replicate thing] -- then the original founders started another company to print books based on the same content, Wikitravel Press. --[[User:Mike Linksvayer|Mike Linksvayer]] 18:51, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

== WANTED: Jeremy Keith ==

Photo used in Iron Man http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11118

Q&A about his CC experiences http://adactio.com/journal/1549

--[[User:Mike Linksvayer|Mike Linksvayer]] 18:51, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

==WANTED: Uwe Hermann ==

As user of CC licensed music http://www.hermann-uwe.de/podcast

And as publisher of CC licensed photos; he has tracked reuse http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/list-of-my-creative-commons-licensed-photos-being-used-elsewhere

Mentions on CC blog http://creativecommons.org/?s=hermann

--[[User:Mike Linksvayer|Mike Linksvayer]] 18:51, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

==WANTED: Mercy Corps==
Example case of CC0
--[[User:Michelle Thorne|Michelle Thorne]] 10:20, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

==WANTED: Charis Tsevis==
Commercially successful photoshop artist, published in Time, Elle, and more. See Flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/
--[[User:Michelle Thorne|Michelle Thorne]] 09:37, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

==WANTED: Government use of CC==
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Government_use_of_CC_licenses -- any or all!
--[[User:Michelle Thorne|Michelle Thorne]] 09:29, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Particularly Whitehouse.gov

== VEB Leipzig ==

full-length films (Die Letzte Drogge and Route 66)
http://www.vebfilm.net/
--[[User:Michelle Thorne|Michelle Thorne]] 09:24, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

== ProPublica ==
"The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, USA Today, Salon, Politico, and Huffington Post published our work since May 1. "

http://www.propublica.org/article/how-you-or-your-newsroom-can-republish-propublicas-stories-515
--[[User:Michelle Thorne|Michelle Thorne]] 09:24, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

== Al Jazeera CC Repository ==
http://cc.aljazeera.net/
--[[User:Michelle Thorne|Michelle Thorne]] 09:24, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

== WANTED: Mark Pilgrim/Dive Into Python ==

http://twitter.com/diveintomark/statuses/4701803934 says
:"Dive Into Python" has now earned me over $10,000 in royalties, despite being Free and online for 8 years.

== WANTED: Pacific.Scoop ==

'''Project:''' Pacific.Scoop

'''Person/org:''' Pacific Media Centre, Creative Industries Research Institute, AUT Communications, Auckland University of Technology

'''Country:''' New Zeland

'''Licence:''' CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 New Zeland

'''Medium:''' Online news media

'''Contact details:''' http://pacific.scoop.co.nz, mailto:pmc@aut.ac.nz

--[[User:Elliott bledsoe|Elliott bledsoe]] 00:03, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

== WANTED: Now and Then ==

'''Project:''' Now and Then

Now and Then is a community heritage website that enables local communities to record, explore and share information about their history and life today.

'''Person/org:''' Collections Council of Australia

'''Country:''' Australia

'''Licence:''' CC BY-SA 2.5 Australia

'''Medium:''' Wiki

'''Contact details:''' http://www.nowandthen.net.au, mailto:wikis@collectionscouncil.com.au

--[[User:Elliott bledsoe|Elliott bledsoe]] 00:45, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

== WANTED: South East Asia Satellite Data DVD ==

'''Project:''' South East Asia Satellite Data DVD set for the International Forest Carbon Initiative

'''Person/org:''' Geoscience Australia

'''Country:''' Australia, South East Asia

'''Licence:''' CC BY 2.5 Australia

'''Medium:''' DVD, data

--[[User:Elliott bledsoe|Elliott bledsoe]] 02:16, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

== WANTED: Mashup Australia ==

'''Project:''' Mashup Australia competition

'''Person/org:''' Government 2.0 Taskforce

'''Country:''' Australia

'''Licence:''' CC BY 2.5 Australia

'''Contact details:''' http://mashupaustralia.org

--[[User:Elliott bledsoe|Elliott bledsoe]] 02:22, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Case Studies/ABC Pool

2009-08-03T00:58:10Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* License Usage */

{{Case Study
|Description=Pool is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s online experimental collaborative media publishing platform where contributors can share content, connect with people and grow ideas across the globe.
|Quote=Creative Commons licences assisted us to facilitate community media co-creation and sharing.
|Quote_Attribution=John Jacobs, Pool developer and media arts practitioner/activist
|Image_Header=http://www.pool.org.au/files/imagecache/full_size/files/image/image/pool_logo_magenta_grey.jpg
|Image_attribution=ABC Pool logo, used with permission
|Mainurl=http://www.pool.org.au
|Author=Australian Broadcasting Corporation
|User_Status=Curator
|Tag=media,digital
|License short name=copyright, various
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au/,http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/
|Format=Image, Sound, Text, MovingImage, InteractiveResource
|Country=Australia
}}
== Overview ==
[http://pool.org.au/ Pool] is an experimental collaborative online media platform under development by the [http://abc.net.au Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC)], in association with various Australian tertiary institutions and members of the digital media community. The initiative began in 2007 under the administration of [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ ABC Radio National]. It has been developed with the assistance of [http://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney], [http://www.rmit.edu.au/ Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology] and [http://www.uow.edu.au/ University of Wollongong], and received feedback from various digital media workers and artists acting as beta testers. The project aims to foster local, regional and university partnerships with the ABC and promote Australia’s burgeoning creative digital industries.

The Pool website has been designed to operate as an online community to facilitate the sharing of a variety of media, in a manner primarily connecting the creative content community with the ABC. Contributors can publish, download, remix and share media in such forms as:
* Film and video
* Music and audio
*Visual art and photography
*Animation
* Design
* Interactive media
*Website design; and
* Text.

The site also contains a forum where ideas can be shared and relationships forged. Artists can use Pool as a place to connect and collaborate on common creative projects, as well as build community interest in the digital industries.

Having recently concluded its initial trial, the project is still in the research and development stages. Pool is due for re-launch in April 2008 and will continue to progress as its userbase expands. While Pool’s content was accessible by the public during the trial, content contributions were by invitation only. The official site will extend contribution rights to the Australian public.

Importantly, because Pool is part of the ABC it is subject to ABC editorial policies and guidelines. This means that although contributors are encouraged to voice their views, this must occur in a manner where all members of the community are treated respectfully. To this end the site must publish content based upon four fundamentals: honesty, fairness, independence and respect, [http://www.abc.net.au/corp/pubs/edpols.htm (ABC Editorial Policies)].

In December 2007, Pool was commissioned for a further six-month development cycle. At present the Pool team continue to call for comments and suggestions relating to the operation and direction of the project. Meanwhile the experiment continues to shape the future of public media.

== License Usage ==

During it's trial period The Pool adopted two Creative Commons licences under which contributors can choose to publish their content. All content uploaded to the site at this time was subject to a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivative 2.5 Australian licence], unless contributors choose to allow derivative works. The [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au/ Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 licence] facilitates this.

When contributors were offered the choice of allowing derivatives of their content during the trial, most chose non-derivative licences. It is assumed contributors are wary of allowing their work to be altered or remixed, as most wish to guard their artistic integrity. In moving towards promoting greater collaboration and creative interactions, the Pool team intend to embed an education process into the licensing system to better equip users in determining which licence is best for them. As the site technology develops, the inclusion of in-built licence selection features should further assist contributors in determining which licence is most suitable to their needs.

Since the release of the second version of Pool, all the Creative Commons licences and "All Rights Reserved" were offered to contributors. The site maintains a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivative 2.5 Australian licence] default licence.

== Motivations ==

Pool aims to widen the scope of creator and consumer experience, create new audiences, uncover opportunities and encourage innovative and enriching teaching and learning processes. Creative Commons licences offer a clear path towards facilitating these goals. Media co-creation and sharing has been a founding concept for the project, leading the Pool team to choose Creative Commons as the licensing system that could best enable such interaction, while allowing contributors to retain creative control over their works.

As the ABC keeps pace with evolving media landscapes and continues to emphasise their underpinning ethos as a publicly funded non-commercial organisation, Creative Commons have assisted the Pool team in presenting alternative public licensing solutions to the broadcasting organisation.

As a small initiative within a large public institution, Pool collaborated successfully with Creative Commons Australia to trial open-content licensing models to the greater ABC collective. Not having to internally generate ABC-specific licences conserved project resources and provided Pool with an external licensing model with which to demonstrate the capabilities and benefits of open-content licensing to the ABC. The Pool trial has confirmed the community’s interest in ‘some rights reserved’ licensing and demonstrated the importance of promoting educated uses of CC licences on the site to ensure a wider uptake in the future of the project.

Case Studies/ABC Pool

2009-08-03T00:53:48Z

Elliottbledsoe:

{{Case Study
|Description=Pool is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s online experimental collaborative media publishing platform where contributors can share content, connect with people and grow ideas across the globe.
|Quote=Creative Commons licences assisted us to facilitate community media co-creation and sharing.
|Quote_Attribution=John Jacobs, Pool developer and media arts practitioner/activist
|Image_Header=http://www.pool.org.au/files/imagecache/full_size/files/image/image/pool_logo_magenta_grey.jpg
|Image_attribution=ABC Pool logo, used with permission
|Mainurl=http://www.pool.org.au
|Author=Australian Broadcasting Corporation
|User_Status=Curator
|Tag=media,digital
|License short name=copyright, various
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au/,http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/
|Format=Image, Sound, Text, MovingImage, InteractiveResource
|Country=Australia
}}
== Overview ==
[http://pool.org.au/ Pool] is an experimental collaborative online media platform under development by the [http://abc.net.au Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC)], in association with various Australian tertiary institutions and members of the digital media community. The initiative began in 2007 under the administration of [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ ABC Radio National]. It has been developed with the assistance of [http://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney], [http://www.rmit.edu.au/ Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology] and [http://www.uow.edu.au/ University of Wollongong], and received feedback from various digital media workers and artists acting as beta testers. The project aims to foster local, regional and university partnerships with the ABC and promote Australia’s burgeoning creative digital industries.

The Pool website has been designed to operate as an online community to facilitate the sharing of a variety of media, in a manner primarily connecting the creative content community with the ABC. Contributors can publish, download, remix and share media in such forms as:
* Film and video
* Music and audio
*Visual art and photography
*Animation
* Design
* Interactive media
*Website design; and
* Text.

The site also contains a forum where ideas can be shared and relationships forged. Artists can use Pool as a place to connect and collaborate on common creative projects, as well as build community interest in the digital industries.

Having recently concluded its initial trial, the project is still in the research and development stages. Pool is due for re-launch in April 2008 and will continue to progress as its userbase expands. While Pool’s content was accessible by the public during the trial, content contributions were by invitation only. The official site will extend contribution rights to the Australian public.

Importantly, because Pool is part of the ABC it is subject to ABC editorial policies and guidelines. This means that although contributors are encouraged to voice their views, this must occur in a manner where all members of the community are treated respectfully. To this end the site must publish content based upon four fundamentals: honesty, fairness, independence and respect, [http://www.abc.net.au/corp/pubs/edpols.htm (ABC Editorial Policies)].

In December 2007, Pool was commissioned for a further six-month development cycle. At present the Pool team continue to call for comments and suggestions relating to the operation and direction of the project. Meanwhile the experiment continues to shape the future of public media.

== License Usage ==

The Pool trial has adopted two Creative Commons licences under which contributors can choose to publish their content. Currently all content uploaded to the site is subject to a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivative 2.5 Australian licence], unless contributors choose to allow derivative works. The [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au/ Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 licence] facilitates this. It is anticipated that in the near future the Pool site will increase the choice of licence models available.

When contributors were offered the choice of allowing derivatives of their content during the trial, most chose non-derivative licences. It is assumed contributors are wary of allowing their work to be altered or remixed, as most wish to guard their artistic integrity. In moving towards promoting greater collaboration and creative interactions, the Pool team intend to embed an education process into the licensing system to better equip users in determining which licence is best for them. As the site technology develops, the inclusion of in-built licence selection features should further assist contributors in determining which licence is most suitable to their needs.

== Motivations ==

Pool aims to widen the scope of creator and consumer experience, create new audiences, uncover opportunities and encourage innovative and enriching teaching and learning processes. Creative Commons licences offer a clear path towards facilitating these goals. Media co-creation and sharing has been a founding concept for the project, leading the Pool team to choose Creative Commons as the licensing system that could best enable such interaction, while allowing contributors to retain creative control over their works.

As the ABC keeps pace with evolving media landscapes and continues to emphasise their underpinning ethos as a publicly funded non-commercial organisation, Creative Commons have assisted the Pool team in presenting alternative public licensing solutions to the broadcasting organisation.

As a small initiative within a large public institution, Pool collaborated successfully with Creative Commons Australia to trial open-content licensing models to the greater ABC collective. Not having to internally generate ABC-specific licences conserved project resources and provided Pool with an external licensing model with which to demonstrate the capabilities and benefits of open-content licensing to the ABC. The Pool trial has confirmed the community’s interest in ‘some rights reserved’ licensing and demonstrated the importance of promoting educated uses of CC licences on the site to ensure a wider uptake in the future of the project.

Case Studies/Platform: Journal of Media and Communication

2009-07-23T05:36:55Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* Motivations */

{{Case Study
|Description=Platform is a biannual open-access, online graduate journal, published by the Media and Communications Program at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.
|Mainurl=http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform
|Author=School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
|User_Status=Curator, Creator
|Tag=University of Melbourne, academia, academic publishing, academic journals, post-graduate research, research, online publishing, open access,
|License short name=CC BY, various
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au
|Format=Text
|Country=Australia
}}
== Overview ==

''[http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform Platform]'' is an open access, online journal publishing graduate (ie Honours, Masters and Doctorate) papers from international contributions. The journal is published by the Media and Communications Program at the [http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au School of Culture and Communication], [http://www.unimelb.edu.au University of Melbourne].

''Platform'' submissions are refereed by a diverse international board of established and emerging scholars from different areas of Media and Communication and it is edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne.

== License Usage ==

Authors of papers selected for publication are encouraged to license their submission under a Creative Commons licence.

The journal itself is, by default, licensed under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au Attribution 2.5 Australia] licence.

“Mediated Mobilities: Negotiating Identities”, Volume 1 (released Thursday, 23 July 2009) included six submissions from graduates in Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada. All submissions were released under a Creative Commons licence; 3 under the default licence (Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au Attribution 2.5 Australia] licence), 2 under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence and 1 under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia] licence.

== Motivations ==

''Platform'' is an open access journal.

Case Studies/Platform: Journal of Media and Communication

2009-07-23T05:36:34Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* Overview */

Case Studies/Platform: Journal of Media and Communication

2009-07-23T05:35:54Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* Overview */

{{Case Study
|Description=Platform is a biannual open-access, online graduate journal, published by the Media and Communications Program at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.
|Mainurl=http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform
|Author=School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
|User_Status=Curator, Creator
|Tag=University of Melbourne, academia, academic publishing, academic journals, post-graduate research, research, online publishing, open access,
|License short name=CC BY, various
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au
|Format=Text
|Country=Australia
}}
== Overview ==

''[http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform Platform]'' is an open access, online journal publishing graduate (ie Honours, Masters and Doctorate) papers from international contributions. The journal is published by the Media and Communications Program at the [http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au School of Culture and Communication], [http://www.unimelb.edu.au University of Melbourne].

A new journal coming out of the University of Melbourne’s School of Culture and Communication has set its sights on disseminating new academic work from around the globe. The journal of media and communication, Platform, is exactly that; a platform for bouncing out new ideas. Not only because it is a journal specifically designed to support and publish Honours, Masters and Doctorate students (getting work published in academic journals is very competitive and hard to get when you’re competing with seasoned academics) but also because the journal is open access.

Platform submissions are refereed by a diverse international board of established and emerging scholars from different areas of Media and Communication and it is edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne.

If you’re a PhD or Masters student working on something good in the Media and Communications field, then get your submission in for volume 2 due for release in January next year.

Again, we were pretty excited about this so we posted a case study about it on the CC Wiki here.

== License Usage ==

Authors of papers selected for publication are encouraged to license their submission under a Creative Commons licence.

The journal itself is, by default, licensed under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au Attribution 2.5 Australia] licence.

“Mediated Mobilities: Negotiating Identities”, Volume 1 (released Thursday, 23 July 2009) included six submissions from graduates in Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada. All submissions were released under a Creative Commons licence; 3 under the default licence (Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au Attribution 2.5 Australia] licence), 2 under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence and 1 under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia] licence.

== Motivations ==

Platform is an open access journal.

Case Studies/Platform: Journal of Media and Communication

2009-07-23T05:35:11Z

Elliottbledsoe: Created page with '{{Case Study |Description=Platform is a biannual open-access, online graduate journal, published by the Media and Communications Program at the School of Culture and Communicatio...'

{{Case Study
|Description=Platform is a biannual open-access, online graduate journal, published by the Media and Communications Program at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.
|Mainurl=http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform
|Author=School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
|User_Status=Curator, Creator
|Tag=University of Melbourne, academia, academic publishing, academic journals, post-graduate research, research, online publishing, open access,
|License short name=CC BY, various
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au
|Format=Text
|Country=Australia
}}
== Overview ==

[http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform Platform] is an open access, online journal publishing graduate (ie Honours, Masters and Doctorate) papers from international contributions. The journal is published by the Media and Communications Program at the [http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au School of Culture and Communication], [http://www.unimelb.edu.au University of Melbourne].

A new journal coming out of the University of Melbourne’s School of Culture and Communication has set its sights on disseminating new academic work from around the globe. The journal of media and communication, Platform, is exactly that; a platform for bouncing out new ideas. Not only because it is a journal specifically designed to support and publish Honours, Masters and Doctorate students (getting work published in academic journals is very competitive and hard to get when you’re competing with seasoned academics) but also because the journal is open access.

Platform submissions are refereed by a diverse international board of established and emerging scholars from different areas of Media and Communication and it is edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne.

If you’re a PhD or Masters student working on something good in the Media and Communications field, then get your submission in for volume 2 due for release in January next year.

Again, we were pretty excited about this so we posted a case study about it on the CC Wiki here.

== License Usage ==

Authors of papers selected for publication are encouraged to license their submission under a Creative Commons licence.

The journal itself is, by default, licensed under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au Attribution 2.5 Australia] licence.

“Mediated Mobilities: Negotiating Identities”, Volume 1 (released Thursday, 23 July 2009) included six submissions from graduates in Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada. All submissions were released under a Creative Commons licence; 3 under the default licence (Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au Attribution 2.5 Australia] licence), 2 under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence and 1 under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia] licence.

== Motivations ==

Platform is an open access journal.

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T04:29:44Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* Motivations */

{{Case Study
|Description=Mosman Municipal Council, the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, utilise Creative Commons and social networking as part of their Community Engagement Strategy.
|Quote=Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.
|Quote_Attribution=[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy]
|Image_Header=http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/thumb/9/94/3235964896_a6008925bb_b.jpg/800px-3235964896_a6008925bb_b.jpg
|Image_attribution=[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary/3235964896 Mosman Readers] by [http://www.flickr.com/profile/mosmanlibrary Mosman Library]
|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0
|Mainurl=http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces
|Author=Mosman Municipal Council
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}}
== Overview ==
[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] is the local government authority for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] with an intention to "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform inform]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult consult]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve involve]" their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website. The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil Twitter account], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil YouTube account] and numerous blogs and pages with associated RSS feeds and it filters these through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil FriendFeed account].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library The Mosman Library] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary Flickr account], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts videos] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary Vimeo]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net Mosman Reader] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman Social Media Mob – Mosman] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm #smmm]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries Social Media Surgeries] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock localised events]).

The Council also identifies the need to use open formats and open licences (in particular Creative Commons) to "to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship." In tandem, the Council prioritises "open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users."

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits transparency and accountability].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both Flickr accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Although they are certainly not abandoning more traditional and/or 'real-world' techniques for engaging citizens, they strategy demonstrates a strive to be best-practice in their use of new technologies. Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons. Some key priorities in the strategy include:
<ul>
<li>Use of blogs, wikis and other social network and social media platforms "where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured";</li>
<li>Developing appropriate guidelines for the use of these technologies by the Council "to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful";</li>
<li>Encourage community contribution of local knowledge to collaborative spaces including [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] and [http://openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap];</li>
<li>Releasing Council materials, where possible, under a Creative Commons licence "to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship";</li>
<li>Releasing Council materials, where possible, in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_format open formats] and as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data open data]; and</li>
<li>Building of an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface application programming interface] (API) to that information.
</ul>

To support these commitments, the Strategy also outlines intentions to train local Councillors to encourage their use of the internet in their official capacity. They also aim to support and mentor community members who are active online or who wish to be and to provide training and support for less digitally-engaged citizens (using their social media champions to [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman provide peer-led training]). Likewise, senior staff, managers and key professional officers will be kept abreast of the outcomes of online community engagement strategies.

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T04:28:36Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* Motivations */

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== Overview ==
[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] is the local government authority for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] with an intention to "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform inform]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult consult]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve involve]" their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website. The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil Twitter account], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil YouTube account] and numerous blogs and pages with associated RSS feeds and it filters these through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil FriendFeed account].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library The Mosman Library] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary Flickr account], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts videos] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary Vimeo]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net Mosman Reader] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman Social Media Mob – Mosman] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm #smmm]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries Social Media Surgeries] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock localised events]).

The Council also identifies the need to use open formats and open licences (in particular Creative Commons) to "to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship." In tandem, the Council prioritises "open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users."

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits transparency and accountability].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both Flickr accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Although they are certainly not abandoning more traditional and/or 'real-world' techniques for engaging citizens, they strategy demonstrates a strive to be best-practice in their use of new technologies. Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons. Some key priorities in the strategy include:
<ul>
<li>Use of blogs, wikis and other social network and social media platforms "where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured";</li>
<li>Developing appropriate guidelines for the use of these technologies by the Council "to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful";</li>
<li>Encourage community contribution of local knowledge to collaborative spaces including [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] and [http://openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap];</li>
<li>Releasing Council materials, where possible, under a Creative Commons licence "to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship";</li>
<li>Releasing Council materials, where possible, in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_format open formats] and as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data open data]; and</li>
<li>Building of an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface application programming interface] (API) to that information.</a>
</ul>

To support these commitments, the Strategy also outlines intentions to train local Councillors to encourage their use of the internet in their official capacity. They also aim to support and mentor community members who are active online or who wish to be and to provide training and support for less digitally-engaged citizens (using their social media champions to [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman provide peer-led training]). Likewise, senior staff, managers and key professional officers will be kept abreast of the outcomes of online community engagement strategies.

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T03:51:18Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* Overview */

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== Overview ==
[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] is the local government authority for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] with an intention to "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform inform]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult consult]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve involve]" their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website. The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil Twitter account], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil YouTube account] and numerous blogs and pages with associated RSS feeds and it filters these through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil FriendFeed account].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library The Mosman Library] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary Flickr account], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts videos] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary Vimeo]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net Mosman Reader] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman Social Media Mob – Mosman] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm #smmm]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries Social Media Surgeries] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock localised events]).

The Council also identifies the need to use open formats and open licences (in particular Creative Commons) to "to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship." In tandem, the Council prioritises "open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users."

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits transparency and accountability].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both Flickr accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons:

:Make more use of on-line spaces – such as blogs and forums – where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured.

:Formalise moderation guidelines and terms of use (community guidelines) to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful.

:Acknowledge and mentor those community members who are active participants on-line or who wish to be.

:Hold workshops for Councillors to encourage their use of blogs and other social media to communicate and converse with the community.

:Hold social media workshops at Mosman Library to promote Council’s on-line engagement and give practical support for community participation.

:Hold a regular brainstorming session along the lines of IBM’s Innovation Jam or the Guardian’s Hack Day to generate ideas and foster creative thinking.

:Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.

:Continue collaborative projects on-line that allow the community to document and share its local knowledge while also participating in other collaborative spaces, such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (an open data map repository).

:Ensure that priority is given to open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users. When commissioning or upgrading data systems and services, Council should prioritise the building of an application programming interface (API) to that information.

:Keep relevant senior staff, managers and key professional officers informed of on-line discussions and report to Council as appropriate.'

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T03:38:09Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* Overview */

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== Overview ==
[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] is the local government authority for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] with an intention to "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform inform]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult consult]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve involve]" their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website. The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil Twitter account], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil YouTube account] and numerous blogs and pages with associated RSS feeds and it filters these through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil FriendFeed account].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library The Mosman Library] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary Flickr account], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts videos] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary Vimeo]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net Mosman Reader] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman Social Media Mob – Mosman] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm #smmm]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries Social Media Surgeries] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock localised events]).

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits transparency and accountability].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both Flickr accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons:

:Make more use of on-line spaces – such as blogs and forums – where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured.

:Formalise moderation guidelines and terms of use (community guidelines) to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful.

:Acknowledge and mentor those community members who are active participants on-line or who wish to be.

:Hold workshops for Councillors to encourage their use of blogs and other social media to communicate and converse with the community.

:Hold social media workshops at Mosman Library to promote Council’s on-line engagement and give practical support for community participation.

:Hold a regular brainstorming session along the lines of IBM’s Innovation Jam or the Guardian’s Hack Day to generate ideas and foster creative thinking.

:Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.

:Continue collaborative projects on-line that allow the community to document and share its local knowledge while also participating in other collaborative spaces, such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (an open data map repository).

:Ensure that priority is given to open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users. When commissioning or upgrading data systems and services, Council should prioritise the building of an application programming interface (API) to that information.

:Keep relevant senior staff, managers and key professional officers informed of on-line discussions and report to Council as appropriate.'

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T03:24:07Z

Elliottbledsoe:

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|Quote_Attribution=[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy]
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== Overview ==
[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] is the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] with an intention to "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform inform]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult consult]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve involve]" their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website. The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil Twitter account], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil YouTube account] and numerous blogs and pages with associated RSS feeds and it filters these through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil FriendFeed account].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library The Mosman Library] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary Flickr account], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts videos] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary Vimeo]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net Mosman Reader] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman Social Media Mob – Mosman] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm #smmm]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries Social Media Surgeries] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock localised events]).

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits transparency and accountability].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both Flickr accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons:

:Make more use of on-line spaces – such as blogs and forums – where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured.

:Formalise moderation guidelines and terms of use (community guidelines) to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful.

:Acknowledge and mentor those community members who are active participants on-line or who wish to be.

:Hold workshops for Councillors to encourage their use of blogs and other social media to communicate and converse with the community.

:Hold social media workshops at Mosman Library to promote Council’s on-line engagement and give practical support for community participation.

:Hold a regular brainstorming session along the lines of IBM’s Innovation Jam or the Guardian’s Hack Day to generate ideas and foster creative thinking.

:Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.

:Continue collaborative projects on-line that allow the community to document and share its local knowledge while also participating in other collaborative spaces, such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (an open data map repository).

:Ensure that priority is given to open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users. When commissioning or upgrading data systems and services, Council should prioritise the building of an application programming interface (API) to that information.

:Keep relevant senior staff, managers and key professional officers informed of on-line discussions and report to Council as appropriate.'

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T01:58:56Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* Motivations */

{{Case Study
|Description=Mosman Municipal Council, the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, utilise Creative Commons and social networking as part of their Community Engagement Strategy.
|Quote=Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.
|Quote_Attribution=[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy]
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|Image_attribution=[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary/3235964896 Mosman Readers] by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary/3235964896 Mosman Library]
|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0
|Mainurl=http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces
|Author=Mosman Municipal Council
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=Mosman Municipal Council, government, community engagement, social networking,
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|Format=Image, Text, InteractiveResource, Other
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}}
== Overview ==
[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] is the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] with an intention to "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform inform]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult consult]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve involve]" their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website. The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil Twitter account], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil YouTube account] and numerous blogs and pages with associated RSS feeds and it filters these through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil FriendFeed account].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library The Mosman Library] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary Flickr account], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts videos] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary Vimeo]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net Mosman Reader] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman Social Media Mob – Mosman] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm #smmm]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries Social Media Surgeries] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock localised events]).

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits transparency and accountability].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both Flickr accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons:

:Make more use of on-line spaces – such as blogs and forums – where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured.

:Formalise moderation guidelines and terms of use (community guidelines) to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful.

:Acknowledge and mentor those community members who are active participants on-line or who wish to be.

:Hold workshops for Councillors to encourage their use of blogs and other social media to communicate and converse with the community.

:Hold social media workshops at Mosman Library to promote Council’s on-line engagement and give practical support for community participation.

:Hold a regular brainstorming session along the lines of IBM’s Innovation Jam or the Guardian’s Hack Day to generate ideas and foster creative thinking.

:Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.

:Continue collaborative projects on-line that allow the community to document and share its local knowledge while also participating in other collaborative spaces, such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (an open data map repository).

:Ensure that priority is given to open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users. When commissioning or upgrading data systems and services, Council should prioritise the building of an application programming interface (API) to that information.

:Keep relevant senior staff, managers and key professional officers informed of on-line discussions and report to Council as appropriate.'

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T01:58:24Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* Motivations */

{{Case Study
|Description=Mosman Municipal Council, the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, utilise Creative Commons and social networking as part of their Community Engagement Strategy.
|Quote=Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.
|Quote_Attribution=[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy]
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== Overview ==
[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] is the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] with an intention to "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform inform]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult consult]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve involve]" their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website. The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil Twitter account], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil YouTube account] and numerous blogs and pages with associated RSS feeds and it filters these through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil FriendFeed account].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library The Mosman Library] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary Flickr account], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts videos] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary Vimeo]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net Mosman Reader] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman Social Media Mob – Mosman] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm #smmm]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries Social Media Surgeries] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock localised events]).

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits transparency and accountability].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both Flickr accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons:

:Make more use of on-line spaces – such as blogs and forums – where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured.

:Formalise moderation guidelines and terms of use (community guidelines) to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful.
:
:Acknowledge and mentor those community members who are active participants on-line or who wish to be.
:
:Hold workshops for Councillors to encourage their use of blogs and other social media to communicate and converse with the community.
:
:Hold social media workshops at Mosman Library to promote Council’s on-line engagement and give practical support for community participation.
:
:Hold a regular brainstorming session along the lines of IBM’s Innovation Jam or the Guardian’s Hack Day to generate ideas and foster creative thinking.
:
:Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.
:
:Continue collaborative projects on-line that allow the community to document and share its local knowledge while also participating in other collaborative spaces, such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (an open data map repository).
:
:Ensure that priority is given to open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users. When commissioning or upgrading data systems and services, Council should prioritise the building of an application programming interface (API) to that information.
:
:Keep relevant senior staff, managers and key professional officers informed of on-line discussions and report to Council as appropriate.'

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T01:57:51Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* Overview */

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|Description=Mosman Municipal Council, the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, utilise Creative Commons and social networking as part of their Community Engagement Strategy.
|Quote=Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.
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== Overview ==
[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] is the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] with an intention to "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform inform]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult consult]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve involve]" their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website. The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil Twitter account], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil YouTube account] and numerous blogs and pages with associated RSS feeds and it filters these through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil FriendFeed account].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library The Mosman Library] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary Flickr account], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts videos] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary Vimeo]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net Mosman Reader] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman Social Media Mob – Mosman] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm #smmm]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries Social Media Surgeries] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock localised events]).

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits transparency and accountability].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both Flickr accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons:

:Make more use of on-line spaces – such as blogs and forums – where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured.
:
:
:Formalise moderation guidelines and terms of use (community guidelines) to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful.
:
:Acknowledge and mentor those community members who are active participants on-line or who wish to be.
:
:Hold workshops for Councillors to encourage their use of blogs and other social media to communicate and converse with the community.
:
:Hold social media workshops at Mosman Library to promote Council’s on-line engagement and give practical support for community participation.
:
:Hold a regular brainstorming session along the lines of IBM’s Innovation Jam or the Guardian’s Hack Day to generate ideas and foster creative thinking.
:
:Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.
:
:Continue collaborative projects on-line that allow the community to document and share its local knowledge while also participating in other collaborative spaces, such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (an open data map repository).
:
:Ensure that priority is given to open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users. When commissioning or upgrading data systems and services, Council should prioritise the building of an application programming interface (API) to that information.
:
:Keep relevant senior staff, managers and key professional officers informed of on-line discussions and report to Council as appropriate.'

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T01:57:32Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* Motivations */

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|Description=Mosman Municipal Council, the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, utilise Creative Commons and social networking as part of their Community Engagement Strategy.
|Quote=Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.
|Quote_Attribution=[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy]
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|Mainurl=http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces
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== Overview ==
[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] is the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] with an intention to "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform inform]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult consult]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve involve]" their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website. The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil Twitter account], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil YouTube account] and numerous blogs and pages with associated RSS feeds and it filters these through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil FriendFeed account].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library The Mosman Library] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary Flickr account], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts videos] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary Vimeo]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net Mosman Reader] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman Social Media Mob – Mosman] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm "#smmm"]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries Social Media Surgeries] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock localised events]).

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits transparency and accountability].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both Flickr accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons:

:Make more use of on-line spaces – such as blogs and forums – where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured.
:
:
:Formalise moderation guidelines and terms of use (community guidelines) to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful.
:
:Acknowledge and mentor those community members who are active participants on-line or who wish to be.
:
:Hold workshops for Councillors to encourage their use of blogs and other social media to communicate and converse with the community.
:
:Hold social media workshops at Mosman Library to promote Council’s on-line engagement and give practical support for community participation.
:
:Hold a regular brainstorming session along the lines of IBM’s Innovation Jam or the Guardian’s Hack Day to generate ideas and foster creative thinking.
:
:Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.
:
:Continue collaborative projects on-line that allow the community to document and share its local knowledge while also participating in other collaborative spaces, such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (an open data map repository).
:
:Ensure that priority is given to open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users. When commissioning or upgrading data systems and services, Council should prioritise the building of an application programming interface (API) to that information.
:
:Keep relevant senior staff, managers and key professional officers informed of on-line discussions and report to Council as appropriate.'

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T01:57:12Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* Motivations */

{{Case Study
|Description=Mosman Municipal Council, the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, utilise Creative Commons and social networking as part of their Community Engagement Strategy.
|Quote=Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.
|Quote_Attribution=[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy]
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|Mainurl=http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces
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|User_Status=Creator
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|Format=Image, Text, InteractiveResource, Other
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}}
== Overview ==
[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] is the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] with an intention to "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform inform]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult consult]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve involve]" their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website. The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil Twitter account], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil YouTube account] and numerous blogs and pages with associated RSS feeds and it filters these through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil FriendFeed account].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library The Mosman Library] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary Flickr account], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts videos] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary Vimeo]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net Mosman Reader] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman Social Media Mob – Mosman] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm "#smmm"]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries Social Media Surgeries] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock localised events]).

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits transparency and accountability].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both Flickr accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons:

:Make more use of on-line spaces – such as blogs and forums – where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured.
:
:Formalise moderation guidelines and terms of use (community guidelines) to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful.
:
:Acknowledge and mentor those community members who are active participants on-line or who wish to be.
:
:Hold workshops for Councillors to encourage their use of blogs and other social media to communicate and converse with the community.
:
:Hold social media workshops at Mosman Library to promote Council’s on-line engagement and give practical support for community participation.
:
:Hold a regular brainstorming session along the lines of IBM’s Innovation Jam or the Guardian’s Hack Day to generate ideas and foster creative thinking.
:
:Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.
:
:Continue collaborative projects on-line that allow the community to document and share its local knowledge while also participating in other collaborative spaces, such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (an open data map repository).
:
:Ensure that priority is given to open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users. When commissioning or upgrading data systems and services, Council should prioritise the building of an application programming interface (API) to that information.
:
:Keep relevant senior staff, managers and key professional officers informed of on-line discussions and report to Council as appropriate.'

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T01:56:15Z

Elliottbledsoe:

{{Case Study
|Description=Mosman Municipal Council, the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, utilise Creative Commons and social networking as part of their Community Engagement Strategy.
|Quote=Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.
|Quote_Attribution=[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy]
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|Mainurl=http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces
|Author=Mosman Municipal Council
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=Mosman Municipal Council, government, community engagement, social networking,
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}}
== Overview ==
[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au Mosman Municipal Council] is the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] with an intention to "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform inform]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult consult]", "[http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve involve]" their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website. The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil Twitter account], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil YouTube account] and numerous blogs and pages with associated RSS feeds and it filters these through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil FriendFeed account].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library The Mosman Library] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary Flickr account], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com blog] specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts videos] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary Vimeo]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net Mosman Reader] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman Social Media Mob – Mosman] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm "#smmm"]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries Social Media Surgeries] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock localised events]).

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits transparency and accountability].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both Flickr accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons:

:'Make more use of on-line spaces – such as blogs and forums – where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured.

Formalise moderation guidelines and terms of use (community guidelines) to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful.

Acknowledge and mentor those community members who are active participants on-line or who wish to be.

Hold workshops for Councillors to encourage their use of blogs and other social media to communicate and converse with the community.

Hold social media workshops at Mosman Library to promote Council’s on-line engagement and give practical support for community participation.

Hold a regular brainstorming session along the lines of IBM’s Innovation Jam or the Guardian’s Hack Day to generate ideas and foster creative thinking.

Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.

Continue collaborative projects on-line that allow the community to document and share its local knowledge while also participating in other collaborative spaces, such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (an open data map repository).

Ensure that priority is given to open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users. When commissioning or upgrading data systems and services, Council should prioritise the building of an application programming interface (API) to that information.

Keep relevant senior staff, managers and key professional officers informed of on-line discussions and report to Council as appropriate.'

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T01:50:40Z

Elliottbledsoe:

{{Case Study
|Description=Mosman Municipal Council, the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, utilise Creative Commons and social networking as part of their Community Engagement Strategy.
|Quote=Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.
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== Overview ==
[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au "Mosman Municipal Council"] is the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces "Community Engagement Strategy"] with an intention to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform "inform"], [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult "consult"], [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve "involve"] their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website (if only more Governments provided just that!). The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil "Twitter account"], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil "YouTube account"] and it filters these (and many of its RSS feeds) through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil "FriendFeed"].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library "The Mosman Library"] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary "Flickr account"], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com "blog"] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com "blog" specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts "videos"] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary "Vimeo"]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net "Mosman Reader"] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman "Social Media Mob – Mosman"] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm "#smmm"]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries "Social Media Surgeries"] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock "localised events"]).

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits "transparency and accountability"].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au "Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both [http://flickr.com "Flickr"] accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 "Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons:

:'Make more use of on-line spaces – such as blogs and forums – where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured.

Formalise moderation guidelines and terms of use (community guidelines) to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful.

Acknowledge and mentor those community members who are active participants on-line or who wish to be.

Hold workshops for Councillors to encourage their use of blogs and other social media to communicate and converse with the community.

Hold social media workshops at Mosman Library to promote Council’s on-line engagement and give practical support for community participation.

Hold a regular brainstorming session along the lines of IBM’s Innovation Jam or the Guardian’s Hack Day to generate ideas and foster creative thinking.

Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.

Continue collaborative projects on-line that allow the community to document and share its local knowledge while also participating in other collaborative spaces, such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (an open data map repository).

Ensure that priority is given to open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users. When commissioning or upgrading data systems and services, Council should prioritise the building of an application programming interface (API) to that information.

Keep relevant senior staff, managers and key professional officers informed of on-line discussions and report to Council as appropriate.'

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T01:47:35Z

Elliottbledsoe:

{{Case Study
|Description=Mosman Municipal Council, the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, utilise Creative Commons and social networking as part of their Community Engagement Strategy.
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== Overview ==
[www.mosman.nsw.gov.au "Mosman Municipal Council"] is the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces "Community Engagement Strategy"] with an intention to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform "inform"], [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult "consult"], [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve "involve"] their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website (if only more Governments provided just that!). The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil "Twitter account"], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil "YouTube account"] and it filters these (and many of its RSS feeds) through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil "FriendFeed"].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library "The Mosman Library"] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary "Flickr account"], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com "blog"] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com "blog" specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts "videos"] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary "Vimeo"]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net "Mosman Reader"] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman "Social Media Mob – Mosman"] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm "#smmm"]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries "Social Media Surgeries"] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock "localised events"]).

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits "transparency and accountability"].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au "Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both [http://flickr.com "Flickr"] accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 "Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons:

:'Make more use of on-line spaces – such as blogs and forums – where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured.

Formalise moderation guidelines and terms of use (community guidelines) to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful.

Acknowledge and mentor those community members who are active participants on-line or who wish to be.

Hold workshops for Councillors to encourage their use of blogs and other social media to communicate and converse with the community.

Hold social media workshops at Mosman Library to promote Council’s on-line engagement and give practical support for community participation.

Hold a regular brainstorming session along the lines of IBM’s Innovation Jam or the Guardian’s Hack Day to generate ideas and foster creative thinking.

Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.

Continue collaborative projects on-line that allow the community to document and share its local knowledge while also participating in other collaborative spaces, such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (an open data map repository).

Ensure that priority is given to open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users. When commissioning or upgrading data systems and services, Council should prioritise the building of an application programming interface (API) to that information.

Keep relevant senior staff, managers and key professional officers informed of on-line discussions and report to Council as appropriate.'

Case Studies/Mosman Municipal Council

2009-07-21T01:43:00Z

Elliottbledsoe: Created page with '{{Case Study |Description=Mosman Municipal Council, the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, utilise Creative Commons and social networking ...'

{{Case Study
|Description=Mosman Municipal Council, the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, utilise Creative Commons and social networking as part of their Community Engagement Strategy.
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|Quote_Attribution=Mosman Council Community Engagement Strategy
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== Overview ==
[www.mosman.nsw.gov.au "Mosman Municipal Council"] is the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On 7 April 2009 the Council adopted its new [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces "Community Engagement Strategy"] with an intention to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/inform "inform"], [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/consult "consult"], [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/involve "involve"] their residence. The Strategies stated agenda is:

:'... to achieve a broader range of views to assist Council in planning services better to meet community needs and aspirations and to provide residents greater opportunities to contribute to and influence outcomes which directly affect their lives.'

The Council has committed to providing open data and utilising social media and networking and licensing under Creative Commons licences to help them deliver on this Strategy.

True to their word, the Council engages with a number of social networking and social media spaces to help them deliver on their Strategy. For starters, they provide RSS feeds for key parts of the Council's website (if only more Governments provided just that!). The Council itself has a [http://twitter.com/mosmancouncil "Twitter account"], [http://www.youtube.com/user/mosmancouncil "YouTube account"] and it filters these (and many of its RSS feeds) through its [http://friendfeed.com/mosmancouncil "FriendFeed"].

[http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library "The Mosman Library"] also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary "Flickr account"], a [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com "blog"] (as well as a [http://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com "blog" specifically for young people) and it posts [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/webcasts "videos"] of Library events on [http://vimeo.com/mosmanlibrary "Vimeo"]. It even runs it's [http://www.mosmanreaders.net "Mosman Reader"] program through Ning.

Another key part of their delivery on their Strategy going forward will be to run events at the Library around the internet and social media called [http://refdesk.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/98/introducing-social-media-mob-mosman "Social Media Mob – Mosman"] (they're even using a hashtag for it! [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smmm "#smmm"]). This is modeled on the [http://www.paradisecircus.com/social-media-surgeries "Social Media Surgeries"] events held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom (which have spun off a number of other [http://podnosh.com/blog/2009/05/31/birmingham-social-media-surgeries-taking-stock "localised events"]).

Using these techniques, the Council hopes to achieve its commitment to [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces/strategy/benefits "transparency and accountability"].

== License Usage ==

The Strategy itself is released under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au "Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia] licence. Both [http://flickr.com "Flickr"] accounts use the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0 "Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Genric] licence.

== Motivations ==

Part 3 of the Strategy, 'Involve', sums up the Council's motivations for engaging with Web 2.0 and Creative Commons:

:'Make more use of on-line spaces – such as blogs and forums – where two-way communication between Council and the community is encouraged and nurtured.

Formalise moderation guidelines and terms of use (community guidelines) to ensure on-line discussions are appropriate, intelligent and lawful.

Acknowledge and mentor those community members who are active participants on-line or who wish to be.

Hold workshops for Councillors to encourage their use of blogs and other social media to communicate and converse with the community.

Hold social media workshops at Mosman Library to promote Council’s on-line engagement and give practical support for community participation.

Hold a regular brainstorming session along the lines of IBM’s Innovation Jam or the Guardian’s Hack Day to generate ideas and foster creative thinking.

Make information resources, wherever possible, available under an open content licence, specifically a Creative Commons Australia licence, to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship.

Continue collaborative projects on-line that allow the community to document and share its local knowledge while also participating in other collaborative spaces, such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (an open data map repository).

Ensure that priority is given to open data formats to allow cost-effective and efficient use of that information by other Council systems as well as external applications and users. When commissioning or upgrading data systems and services, Council should prioritise the building of an application programming interface (API) to that information.

Keep relevant senior staff, managers and key professional officers informed of on-line discussions and report to Council as appropriate.'

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2009-07-21T00:32:00Z

Elliottbledsoe:

File:Newpic.png

2009-07-12T00:36:40Z

Elliottbledsoe: Blackbrow

Blackbrow

Collecting Society Projects

2008-08-01T02:56:26Z

Elliottbledsoe: /* Links */

{{Project}}
{{Incomplete|This is a DISCUSSION.}}
== Priorities ==

# Increase usage of CC license usage in jurisdiction
# Increase profitability of cc license users
# Support non-exclusive collecting societies

'''NOTE: While many copyright holders work with Collecting Societies, it is important to be cordial with collecting societies and provide [[#Information|information]] about [[#Technology|integrating]] Creative Commons licenses, but be mindful of overall [[#Priorities]].'''

== Information ==

* [[Casestudies]]
* [[Documentation]]
* [[Metrics]]

== Technology ==

* [[CCPlus|CC+]] - useful for having CC license + morePermissions (CC+ is NOT a license)
* [[ccREL]] - for describing CC licensing semantically on the web
* [[Web Integration]]

== Jurisdictional Memory ==

=== CC Netherlands ===

'''Lead''': Paul Keller

==== Links ====

* http://jamyoung.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/bumastemra-creative-commons/
* http://www.bumastemra.nl/en-US/OverBumaStemra/Actueel/Buma+Stemra+and+Creative+Commons+Nederland+are+starting+a+pilot.htm
* http://www.bumastemra.nl/en-US/Pers/Persberichten/pilot+CC.htm

=== CC Denmark ===

'''Lead''': Henrik Moltke

==== Links ====

* add one...

=== CC Australia ===

'''Leads''': Elliott Bledsoe, Jessica Coates, Brian Fitzgerald

==== Links ====

* APRA "Creative Commons" page, http://www.apra.com.au/writers/forms_and_guidelines/creative_commons.asp
* APRA CEO Brett Cottle's article on ArtsHub, http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news.asp?sId=70075
* Opt APRA, http://www.optapra.net
* Elliott Bledsoe's blog entry after the CCau Music Forum, http://ccelliott.blogspot.com/2007/11/post-music-industry-forum-reflections.html
* Reform APRA MySpace with 'I support reforms for APRA' pledges from Australian musicians, http://www.myspace.com/optoutofapra

=== CC Hong Kong ===

'''Lead''': Rebecca MacKinnon

==== Links ====

* add one...

Collecting Society Projects

2008-08-01T02:48:37Z

Elliottbledsoe:

{{Project}}
{{Incomplete|This is a DISCUSSION.}}
== Priorities ==

# Increase usage of CC license usage in jurisdiction
# Increase profitability of cc license users
# Support non-exclusive collecting societies

'''NOTE: While many copyright holders work with Collecting Societies, it is important to be cordial with collecting societies and provide [[#Information|information]] about [[#Technology|integrating]] Creative Commons licenses, but be mindful of overall [[#Priorities]].'''

== Information ==

* [[Casestudies]]
* [[Documentation]]
* [[Metrics]]

== Technology ==

* [[CCPlus|CC+]] - useful for having CC license + morePermissions (CC+ is NOT a license)
* [[ccREL]] - for describing CC licensing semantically on the web
* [[Web Integration]]

== Jurisdictional Memory ==

=== CC Netherlands ===

'''Lead''': Paul Keller

==== Links ====

* http://jamyoung.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/bumastemra-creative-commons/
* http://www.bumastemra.nl/en-US/OverBumaStemra/Actueel/Buma+Stemra+and+Creative+Commons+Nederland+are+starting+a+pilot.htm
* http://www.bumastemra.nl/en-US/Pers/Persberichten/pilot+CC.htm

=== CC Denmark ===

'''Lead''': Henrik Moltke

==== Links ====

* add one...

=== CC Australia ===

'''Leads''': Elliott Bledsoe, Jessica Coates, Brian Fitzgerald

==== Links ====

* APRA "Creative Commons" page, http://www.apra.com.au/writers/forms_and_guidelines/creative_commons.asp
* APRA CEO Brett Cottle's article on ArtsHub, http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news.asp?sId=70075
* Opt APRA, http://www.optapra.net

=== CC Hong Kong ===

'''Lead''': Rebecca MacKinnon

==== Links ====

* add one...

CCau Birthday BBQ Bash

2007-12-05T05:03:16Z

Elliottbledsoe: australian celebrations of the CC 5th

{{BirthdayParty
|venue=Elliott Bledsoe's house
|city=Brisbane
|state=Queensland
|postal=4101
|country=Australia
|date=December 15, 2007 10:00:00 AM EST
}}
Join CCau staff & friends of Creative Commons a for champagne, snags & soy at the australian celebrations of the CC 5th
birthday at the Birthday BBQ Bash

From 10am, Saturday December 15.
jessica@creativecommons.org.au to rsvp and for details details

CCau Birthday BBQ Bash

2007-12-05T04:28:49Z

Elliottbledsoe: New page: {{BirthdayParty |venue=Elliott Bledsoe |date=December 16, 2007 04:00:00 AM UTC }}

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