The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance. We thought this would be an easy part of the book to write – all we'd have to do is find examples of how boards online, opening up decisionmaking to outside influences. There were no examples - so the last chapter of the book is speculative, based on the best thinking of the people who have looked at networked governance. I dreamed up some scenarios of boards and social media in practice. As part of my work as Visiting … [Read more...]
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Tips for Remote Presenting
Financial Officers Group View more presentations from Beth Kanter. This morning Liz Karlin, who works at the Packard Foundation in Grant Operations, and I did a remote presentation for the Foundation Financial Officers Group on Organizational Change and Social Media Policy development. I talked about the change in workstyle that is needed before codifying a social culture through a social media policy. Liz gave a presentation on the process that Packard used to development its Social … [Read more...]
Networked Nonprofit in Boston: A Story of Contrasts
Earlier this week, I flew across the country (thanks Virgin America!) to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers, Barr Foundation, Public Conversations Project, TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. This post shares a few observations about Networked Nonprofits. Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties I have been experimenting with how to deliver "networked" presentations and workshops. So, I was delighted to get an … [Read more...]
Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon
Note from Beth: Diana Scimone is a free agent fundraiser. She is no stranger to building relationships. She and I have have linked to each other's blog posts and commented on each others posts over the past three years. I wrote about her project The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking in January, 2009 on National Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Awareness Day. (Ironically, it is also the same day as my birthday). She did her first Twitter fundraiser in September on … [Read more...]
A Free Agent and Nonprofits Working Together To End Homelessness
Christian Canter is the development director for Shelter Network, an agency that provides housing and services for homeless families and individuals. As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I've had an opportunity to work with him on social media strategy. So, when Mark Horvath, someone who fits the description of "free agent" in our book The Networked Nonprofit, let me know he was passing by San Francisco at the end of his road trip to promote WeAreVisible, I … [Read more...]
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