Beth Kanter
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Beth is the author of Beth’s Blog (http://www.bethkanter.org), one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits and co-author of the forthcoming book, The Networked Nonprofit, published by J. Wiley in 2010.

Beth is the CEO of Zoetica, a company that serves nonprofits and socially conscious companies with top-tier, online marketing services. In 2009, she was named by Fast Company Magazine as one of the most influential women in technology and one of Business Week’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media.” She is currently the Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits for the Packard Foundation.

She curated NTEN’s “We Are Media: Nonprofit Social Media Starter Kit,” an online community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies. A much in demand speaker and trainer, she was the keynote speaker for the Cambodian Bloggers Conference in Phnom Penh, The Connecting Up Conference in Brisbane, Australia, Minnesota Council on Nonprofits, Making Media Conference in Chicago and others. She has presented about nonprofits and social media at some of the leading social media industry conferences including O’Reilly’s Graphing Social Patterns, Gnomedex, SWSX, Blogher, and Podcamp.

Blog Entries by Beth Kanter

Crowdsourced Philanthropy: How Do We Measure The Impact of the Crowd?

Posted December 17, 2010 | 14:44:25 (EST)

I read George Weiner's excellent post about some of the pitfalls with crowdsourced philanthropy. I agree with him on many points, but I think there are different models and designs out there beyond the Vote for Me crowdsourcing approaches he describes.

Over the past two years, as part...

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Why is it so Hard to Make a Donation on My iPhone, Mr. Jobs?

Posted December 5, 2010 | 15:42:59 (EST)

Back in June, I wrote about how unfriendly Apple's iPhone donation app policy was when I came across this editorial by Jake Shapiro, the CEO of PRX, (the company behind the popular This American Life iPhone and Public Radio Player apps), arguing that Apple's policy of barring...

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Rethinking Nonprofits in a Networked World

Posted June 21, 2010 | 14:45:16 (EST)

Well known philanthropy blogger Lucy Bernholz has proclaimed the third philanthropy buzz word of year:networked. She says why:

Change is all about the network. Your social network -- who you know. The organizational network -- how you interact with other organizations and how permeable you make the "walls" around...
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Networked Nonprofits Know How To Experiment Their Way To Social Media Success

Posted June 15, 2010 | 19:35:04 (EST)

One of the big themes in The Networked Nonprofit, the book I co-wrote with Allison Fine, is the importance of doing low risk, thoughtful experiments. Further, it is important not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. It's a topic we're eager to...

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Networked Nonprofits Focus on Results, Not Reach

Posted June 10, 2010 | 05:01:23 (EST)

If Allison Fine and I were to boil down the main point of our book to a single tweet, it would be: Nonprofits need to work less like single organizations and more like networks to leverage social media to solve complex social problems. Making the shift...

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