Welcome Beth Kanter and Allison Fine. Their new book, Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change, will help you implement the organizational culture changes needed to effectively tap new networks and drive change.
Organizations must prioritize building personal relationships with the key free agents in their network. Free agents may be bloggers or Twitterers, superstar Facebook Causes organizers, or passionate people with a large email list.
As the authors write, the book is built on a simple equation: “Social Media Powers Social Networks for Social Change.” The book sets the stage with the rise of Millennials who no longer owe allegiance to any particular organizations, but rather pick out particular causes. Thus, the Networked Nonprofit will engage these “free agents” and leverage their social networks.
This groundbreaking book shows nonprofits a new way of operating in our increasingly connected world: a networked approach enabled by social technologies, where connections are leveraged to increase impact in effective ways that drive change for the betterment of our society and planet.
In the Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change, Beth Kanter and Allison Fine help nonprofits adapt to a new way of operating in our increasingly connected world. Discover the role of social media and the organizational culture changes needed to effectively tap networks and drive change for the betterment of our society and planet.
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.
Allison is a writer and activist dedicated to understanding and enhancing efforts to use new, social media tools for social change. She has written several books and papers. Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age. She also hosts a monthly podcast for the Chronicle of Philanthropy called Social Good and writes on her own blog at A. Fine Blog.
The Networked Nonprofit (Jossey Bass, July 2010), a new book by Beth Kanter and Demos Senior Fellow Allison Fine, enables them to overcome their fears of losing control and evolve to meet the informational and cultural needs of today's donor and volunteer.
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