About Beth

Bio

Beth Kanter is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media, one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. She co-authored the book titled “The Networked Nonprofit” with Allison Fine published by J Wiley in 2010 that received Honorable Mention for the Terry McAdams Award. Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising, and marketing. Her second book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, with Co-Author KD Paine, was published in October, 2012. Both books have reached #1 on the list of nonprofit books on Amazon.

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 was named Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in 2009-2013. She was a Society of New Communications Research Fellow for 2010.

Beth was honored with the inaugural PepsiCo Women’s Inspiration Award at the 2011SxSW Interactive Festival.

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 and the 2011 Craigslist Bootcamp Nonprofit Management Guide to be published by J Wiley in 2011.

A much-in-demand trainer, Beth was the keynote speaker for the Cambodian Bloggers Conference in Phnom Penh, The Connecting Up Conference in Brisbane, Australia, State Department’s Tech@State Conference, Minnesota Council on Nonprofits, Making Media Conference in Chicago and many others. She has presented about nonprofits and social media at some of the leading social media industry conferences including O’Reilly’s Graphing Social Patterns, Gnomedex, SXSW, Blogher, and Podcamp.

Beth is an internationally recognized trainer who has developed and implemented effective sector capacity building programs that help organizations integrate social media, network building, and relationship marketing best practices. Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory, and other instructional approaches.

Beth has designed and deliver workshops that include interactive key notes, 90 minute “sprints”, half-day, one-day, two-day and for international projects, week long training programs.

She is currently the instructional designer for the E-Mediat project, a networked approach to capacity building of NGOs to use social media the Middle East. 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.

Profiles

Beth Kanter: Thought Leader in Goodwill Fundraising in Forbes by Shel Israel
Beth Kanter: The New Nonprofit is Transparent in Fast Company

Awards and Recognition

UN Foundation’s List of Top Social Good Bloggers

Tops the Nonprofit-A List of Bloggers

Top of the list of 50 best social good tweeters

KRED List of Top Social Media Bloggers

Traackr A-List Nonprofit Marketing

All Top Nonprofit List