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. Today, Allison Fine and I, along with Marc Sirkin and Danielle Brigida did a free webinar for care2 about The Networked Nonprofit. Watch for the link to the recording and slides - I'll share it in a more detailed post I have for Friday, but I wanted to capture two ideas that struck me. Networked Nonprofits engage … [Read more...]
The Networked Nonprofit Book Arrived!
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...]
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...]