It was a special launch day for our book, The Networked Nonprofit, thanks to you! On June 21st, the book was in the top 200 bestsellers on Amazon for the past five hours. During the peak, it was ranked as the #1 nonprofit bestseller, #3 for general industries, #19 in the overall business segment, and #108 overall in America! We really appreciate everyone's contributions to this success. What a send off! We had a lot of fun with the Ustream live stream and Twitter chat where we discussed the … [Read more...]
Celebrate! You're Invited to the Virtual Launch of The Networked Nonprofit
The Networked Nonprofit Launch Day: June 21st View more presentations from Beth Kanter. You are invited to a virtual book launch party! Join us today, June 21st from 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit published by Jossey-Bass. Follow it on Twitter (#netnon) and/or Ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/networked-nonprofit). We have over 600 people who have signed up to join us! Our party goal: Make The Networked Nonprofit a top ten bestseller in Amazon.com’s … [Read more...]
Can Social Network Analysis Improve Your Social Media Strategy?
Source: Monitor Institute Yesterday, Allison Fine and I, along with colleagues Danielle Bridiga and Marc Sirkin gave a Care 2 Webinar on the Networked Nonprofit. Here's a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. One of the topics was "How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques." I thought I'd expand on it here. Networked Nonprofit: Care2 Webinar View more presentations from womenwhotech. As someone who loves … [Read more...]
Networked Nonprofits Avoid Scarcity Thinking and Embrace the Black Smoke Monster
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...]
