Randi Zuckerberg and Eugenie Harvey at last summer’s Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp. Guest post by Beth Kanter Zoetica It has been a year since I’ve relocated to the Bay Area in California. The summers here are much less humid than on the East Coast, but the real treat is having the Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp practically in my […]
Use tweetups to bridge offline & online
Guest post by Beth Kanter bethkanter.org Networked nonprofits know how to close the loop between social media and offline actions. They understand that it is a scaffolded process. Whatever channel they use, they’re building a bridge from online to on land. They’re masters at meeting their audience where they’re at and bringing them further along […]
Twitter tip: Choose whom you follow strategically
How to overcome the concern that social media is a time suck For the past few years whenever I doing a training or talk about nonprofits and social media and more recently when we’ve presented about the book, The Networked Nonprofit, someone always raises this concern: “Social media is a time suck.” Networked nonprofits are […]
9 ways nonprofits should be using Slideshare
Slideshare View more presentations from Beth Kanter. For a couple of years, I’ve been an avid member of the Slideshare community, sharing, browsing and collaborating on content and watching how nonprofits use the platform. As I was reflecting about Slideshare and thinking about the characteristics of nonprofits featured in our book, The Networked Nonprofit, I realized that […]
9 ways nonprofits can excel using social media
Iwas honored to be the keynote speaker for the Bay Area Microsoft/TechSoup Global Connection Day last week. My presentation on Slideshare takes the audience through my Principles for Effective Social Media. The principles cover strategy, learning, capacity, and organizational culture, and each principle is illustrated with some practical and tactical advice that ladders up to […]