I had seen your post when you originally posted it and watched with interest

To be honest this topic is a really hard one because there are so many differing views on it.

I’m stuck in a really hard place because I support all the bloggers on Edublogs.org so I do need to explain what is consider appropriate because often it is the new blogger that is caught out by this.

In terms of your post when I saw it originally I honestly felt it was in the grey area. Certainly I would have argued that it was more in line with following the guidelines of appropriate since you had acknowledged the original post.

The only area that any one could have said the opposite was the use of the image — since I don’t have a Creative Commons license on my blog. And I’ve often debated (with myself) about the pros and cons of adding a Creative Commons license.

Sue — I recently quoted one of your posts in one of my posts. It was a post that appeared on my blog via a clipping I made using Amplify.com. As you may or may not know, Amplify is a service that allows users to do Web clippings and then comment on them and there is an option to have that sent to one’s Wordpress blog. Here is the clip in question: http://bit.ly/bAxkrN

Now normally, when I write a blog post from scratch in WordPress quoting someone’s post and adding a remark or reflection to it, I only quote a small, necessary portion. And I *always* reference the author with a link and the proper quote indication. I had a bad experience a few years back of someone reposting my blog posts on my other blog and *not* quoting me (http://technogenii.net/?p=179) so believe me, I would never put someone through that.

With Amplify, it’s a whole other ball game. One highlights a section of a Webpage or blog post or any other Web document to *Amplify* and share with others. But your post made me think twice about the whole issue. I realised that by *Amplifying your post*, the end result was that a large portion or your post was *quoted*. In addition, Amplify recently made available a plug-in that allows us to repost our Amplified Clips to Wordpress or Blogger blogs, which I realise now, decontextualises the information even further.

When reflecting on your above post, the thing that struck me was that had this been a regular blog post, I would have never taken so much of your post as a quote as it would not have been considered fair use. I’ve been blogging for a while now and even wrote a book about Edublogging where I discuss these very issues. But using a clipping tool had me looking at things from a very different perspective.

Since I read this post, I went back on my blog where the Amplify post was reposted and scaled back considerably the amount that was quoted (http://edublogging.com/?p=319). The Amplify clip will remain the same as it really is like clipping a newspaper and adding a comment. But I’m seriously considering turning off my feed from Amplify to my blogs because I’ve just had a huge realization about this whole process.

I really want to thank you for posting the above and have me reflect further on my own social media practices. That said, I also want to offer an apology because even though my intentions were honourable, I realise the result might have been less than pleasant for you. But from this error has come some really profound reflection which I hope will only contribute to this discussion.

Sincerely,
Kristina

However, I really do believe the skills that we need educators to be modeling and teaching their students is that freely sharing content is about attributing others work and building on each others ideas/thoughts.

@Peter Thanks for sharing with your colleague. Hopefully it helps them and they’ll share it with others.