Beth Kanter speaks on the networked nonprofit at The Guardian
Howard Lake | 22 November 2010 | Blogs
Social media thinker, writer, practitioner and explainer Beth Kanter spoke this morning at The Guardian in London to a room full of charity sector people interested in how charities can use social media.
Beth is in London briefly and gives another talk tonight hosted by JustGiving (but it’s fully-booked, I’m afraid). The event was hosted by The Guardian as part of the launch of its Guardian Voluntary Sector Network.
The focus of her talk (and her recently co-authored book) was the ‘networked nonprofit’. Beth argues that the popular use of social media means that charities and nonprofits need to adapt, to become ‘networked nonprofits’. Social media aren’t just channels to exploit in terms of fundraising, campaigning and service delivery: their open nature, the ceding of control of brand, and the risk to reputation mean that traditional views of how charities operate as organisations need to change and develop.
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Naturally, she accepts that this can be very hard for most organisations. But it isn’t an issue that can be ducked.
Here is some of the content created and shared at Beth’s talk to give all those who were joining in from afar, or who couldn’t take part, to experience and learn from.
First, Beth’s presentation:
Secondly, Beth’s account of her session.
Thirdly, The Guardian have published an audio recording of the whole of her presentation in their report of the event.
Now here are some video snippets that I made:
David Wilcox (@socialreporter) interviewed @kanter with @stevebridger who had helped organise her appearance at this event:
I recorded two sections of Beth’s talk.
[Both were recorded using ipadio.com, so are now, in 2021, no longer available].
Sylwia Presley (@nfpvoice) has used curated.at to aggregate selected content from today’s event.
[Curated.at is similar no longer in existence so the content, Beth Kanter on Networked Nonprofits at The Guardian, is no longer available].
I took some photos of the event:
Beth Kanter’s books
The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human–Centered in An Automated World (with Allison H Fine)
The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout
Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World
The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change (with Allison H Fine)
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.