Social networks and social media has busted out of the marketing communications and fundraising silos and changing the way nonprofits deliver programs, manage, and even govern.  This session will take a look about these trends and how nonprofits can equipment themselves to be networked nonprofits.

Takeaways:

1.  What are the characteristics of Networked Nonprofits? 


2.  What are some emerging success stories of Networked Nonprofits?


3.  What are some ways that your nonprofit is a Networked Nonprofit or can transform itself into one?

This session will be presented live at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference.  You can register to view the live presentation -- the slides and audio, just like any other webinar, from the comfort of your office or home.  You'll also be able to participate and ask your questions through the chat feature. 

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Presented by: Beth Kanter, Beth’s Blog and Allison Fine, Demos: A Network of Ideas and Action

Beth Kanter, CEO, Zoetica, is  the author of Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media, one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector. A frequent contributor to many nonprofit technology web sites, blogs, and magazines, Beth has authored chapters in several books, including "Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders," edited by NTEN both published in 2009. She co-writing a book to be published by J Wiley in 2010 tentatively titled “The Networked Nonprofit.” 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. 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 the 2009 Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits for the Packard Foundation.

Allison Fine is an activist and author studying and writing 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). She is also 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. Her new book co-authored with Beth Kanter, The Networked Nonprofit, will be published by Wiley & Sons in 2010. Allison hosts a monthly podcast for the Chronicle of Philanthropy called Social Good and writes her own blog, A. Fine Blog.

About 10NTC Live Events:

The fantastic folks at ReadyTalk -- long time partners with a great discount for NTEN members -- are bringing you six NTC sessions as webinars.  You'll be able to hear the speakers and see their slides, just like any other webinar. As an added bonus, you'll be able to chat YOUR questions to the speakers, and the ReadyTalk folks will make sure they get answered! Of course, the recordings will be available after the conference, as well.