If you haven’t heard about Link with Love, they are an amazing site of artists, designers, writers, and thinkers who have joined forces in the effort to bring awareness of properly citing sources. Artists work hard to create these works that are rampantly spread on social media, and are hardly ever given the credit they deserve. This poster is an amazing diagram for those of you who don’t know about citing sources.  IT WAS AN uber AMAZING DAY when Design For Mankind’s Erin Loechner sent LINKwithlove.org this message to share on her behalf: The Internet is vast, vast, vast. And original sources are often impossible to find. I get that. As a blogger, I’ve come across dozens of images daily with no original source, almost as if they’ve appeared out of thin air. Yet someone, somewhere, took great pride in creating that image, and we need to celebrate that pride… as a community.Thus, I’d encourage you to come up with your own protocol/photo technique and to link with love. Will you refuse to post all images without proper credit, period? Or will you come up with a SOS system of your own? Will you go as far as to boycott the use of social networking / bookmarking sites that don’t regulate original sourcing of images?I’d love for everyone to receive the praise they so deserve in the best way possible.Let’s all hold ourselves to a higher standard, OK?

If you haven’t heard about Link with Love, they are an amazing site of artists, designers, writers, and thinkers who have joined forces in the effort to bring awareness of properly citing sources. Artists work hard to create these works that are rampantly spread on social media, and are hardly ever given the credit they deserve. This poster is an amazing diagram for those of you who don’t know about citing sources. 

IT WAS AN uber AMAZING DAY when Design For Mankind’s Erin Loechner sent LINKwithlove.org this message to share on her behalf:

The Internet is vast, vast, vast. And original sources are often impossible to find. I get that. As a blogger, I’ve come across dozens of images daily with no original source, almost as if they’ve appeared out of thin air. Yet someone, somewhere, took great pride in creating that image, and we need to celebrate that pride… as a community.

Thus, I’d encourage you to come up with your own protocol/photo technique and to link with love. Will you refuse to post all images without proper credit, period? Or will you come up with a SOS system of your own? Will you go as far as to boycott the use of social networking / bookmarking sites that don’t regulate original sourcing of images?

I’d love for everyone to receive the praise they so deserve in the best way possible.Let’s all hold ourselves to a higher standard, OK?