Yesterday, an advanced copy of our book, The Networked Nonprofit, arrived. My son, Harry, who is in video making summer camp, decided to make a little movie of me opening the book! Today, I taught a workshop in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz and supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. I, of course, raffled it off in exchange for people filling out index cards with their planned first steps into social media. The lucky winner was Lorraine from the … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2010
Help Us Launch The Networked Nonprofit With A Splash!
You are invited to a virtual book launch party! Join Allison Fine and me on June 21st at 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit published by Jossey-Bass. The virtual launch will take place on Twitter (#netnon) and Ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/networked-nonprofit) If we get a single pre-order for 100 or more copies of the book from one individual, we'll jump in the pool (with our cloths on - we aren't Esther Williams look a likes!). We'll do this live on … [Read more...]
Approach Social Media Like Thomas Edison
One of the big themes in our book, The Networked Nonprofit, is the importance of experiments and not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit where Allison Fine and I will talk about social media experimentation and other themes from the book. Thomas Alva Edison held 1,093 patents for different inventions. Many of them, like the lightbulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, … [Read more...]
Nine Ways Networked Nonprofits Use Slideshare
Slideshare View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare, a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. For a couple of years, I've been an avid member of the Slideshare community, sharing, browsing, and collaborating on content and watching how nonprofits use the platform. As I was reflecting about … [Read more...]
How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change
Monitor Institute: KaBOOM! Case Study View more documents from Noah Flower. Note from Beth: Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits need to work less as isolated institutions and more as networks. Over the past year, I've has the pleasure of working with the good folks from Monitor Institute this past year as part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard … [Read more...]
