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Keynote from My Charity Connects Conference at NetChange Week
My Charity Connect: Netchange Week View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. Last week, I was in NYC to deliver a keynote with Allison Fine about our book, The Networked Nonprofit. I stayed the weekend to travel to Toronto, to give a keynote on Monday morning at the My Charity Connects Conference. My slides are above and my reflections are below. An Impressive Week-Long Learning and Networking Event for … [Read more...]
Attend The Networked Nonprofit Virtual Book Launch (6/21) and Support Cambodian Kids!
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. Our party goal: Make The Networked Nonprofit a top ten bestseller in Amazon.com's business book section before the book is issued (Official release date: July 9). Whether you want to watch Allison and I live on your computer or just chat with us on Twitter, the party will be a blast. (I promise to bring my finger … [Read more...]
Apple or Android? Which One is More Nonprofit Friendly?
This must-read editorial by Jake Shapiro, the CEO of PRX, (the company behind the popular This American Life iPhone and Public Radio Player apps, argues that Apple's policy barring solicitation of donations by nonprofit groups is a cop-out and blocks a major revenue stream for public radion (and other nonprofits)—whose content enhances the value of Apple's devices. His analysis takes us through Apple's excuses for their policy of prohibiting donations and points out why they are just excuses, … [Read more...]
How Many Free Agents Does It Take To Change A Nonprofit Fortress?
The Networked Nonprofit View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Allison Fine and I are honored to be delivering a conversational keynote at the Personal Democracy Forum today in New York City. Our session is part of a series brief talks that look at the future in a networked age. Our topic is rethinking nonprofits in a networked age. It just so happens that Allison Fine and I wrote a book together over the past year, The Networked Nonprofit, on that topic. There … [Read more...]
Knitting Together Your Website, Email, and Social Media Content
Guest Post by Kivi Leroux Miller Kivi Leroux Miller has just launched a book, Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause. To help her celebrate, I invited to write a post with some steps and tips for integrating web content, email, and social media. You put up a website way back when, then started sending out an email newsletter. Now you’ve added social media. If you feel like your online marketing strategy is made up of a bunch of loose ends, … [Read more...]
How can we prepare organizational leaders to work in a networked world?
Guest post by Patti Anklam Guest blogger, Patti Anklam, author of Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World, explores the role of organizational leadership in a network world. This post is part of a series of articles exploring topics related to network leadership hosted by Leadership for a New Era or LNE, a collaborative research initiative launched by the Leadership Learning Community (http://leadershiplearning.org/) in 2009. LNE focuses on … [Read more...]
Microsoft's Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology
Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to attend Microsoft's “Accelerator Summit,” a day of conversation with Microsoft employees, partners, academics, journalists, and bloggers about their corporate citizenship program. Their strategy focuses on technology and partnerships that can accelerate systemic on the ground social change and economic issues. The Accelerator Summit included interactive sessions show casing their programs in these areas: workforce development, employee giving, … [Read more...]
Actionable Listening: Learning from Watching Other Nonprofits
Actionable listening on social media channels means transforming a "river of noise" into insights that are actionable. That is, you gain insight, can make a decision, or do something. Listening can help your organization craft conversation starters, figure out how to best start engaging, identify social content that you can incorporate into your content strategy, identify potential brand ambassadors, or address a potential crisis early in the game. Earlier this week, I was facilitated a … [Read more...]
