Tuesday, October 5, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett
Street, second floor
Many nonprofit organizations have dipped their toes into the set-me-free world powered by social media, but too many still have trepidations about turning their organizations inside out to take full advantage of the new tools. The Networked Nonprofit, a new bestselling book by leading bloggers and thinkers, Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, enables organizations to overcome their fears of losing control and evolve to meet the informational and cultural needs of today's donors and volunteers. In their research, Allison and Beth discovered that the organizations that are immersed in social media — whether they are created that way or are becoming so — look and act more like social organizations than traditional organizations. They will discuss the myths and realities that make organizations leery of opening themselves up, and they’ll share specific stories of how other organizations have been successful in doing so.
About Allison
Allison studies and writes about the intersection of social media and
social change. She is the author of the award-winning book Momentum:
Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age (Wiley & Sons, 2006).
Her new book, The Networked Nonprofit, co-authored with Beth Kanter,
was published by Wiley & Sons in 2010.
She is a Senior Fellow on the Democracy Team at Demos: A Network for
Change and Action in New York City. In 2008, she published a paper on
young people and activism commissioned by the Case Foundation call
Social Citizensbeta, and edited a collection of essays, Rebooting
America, about transformative ways to reinvent 21st century democracy
using new media tools. Allison hosts a monthly podcast for the
Chronicle of Philanthropy called Social Good and writes her own blog,
A. Fine Blog.
Allison was the Founder and Executive Director of Innovation Network,
Inc. from 1992-2004 providing program planning and evaluation support
for nonprofits and foundation. She served as the C.E.O. of The E-Volve
Foundation in 2004-2005. Allison is a graduate of Vanderbilt
University and New York University.
About Beth
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 highly acclaimed 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 and tools can
enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their
stories and change the world.
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Last updated October 21, 2010