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Networked Nonprofits: 
Leading the Charge for Social 
     Change from Inside Out
                                Beth Kanter,   
          Co‐Author, The Networked Nonprofit
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Beyond Tweeting: Social Media and Grantmaking
Strategies to Amplify Social Impact
Session on Tuesday, September 20th
4:00 PM ‐ Nob Hill A‐C, Lower B2 Level
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Climbing a Mountain for Parkinson’s Research
“When the technology becomes boring, it becomes 
socially interesting” – Clay Shirky

The connectedness of living in a networked, mobile world 
has become more a part our daily lives.  

These disruptive technologies are having a profound 
impact on the way nonprofits do their work, communicate 
with stakeholders, and deliver programs.

Remember:  Disruption is can be our friend …..      
Share Pair:  How are online social networks changing the way the 
nonprofits you support or your foundation does it work, delivers 
programs, fundraises, or communicates with stakeholders?
What is a Networked Nonprofit?
Social Culture:  Not Afraid of Sharing Control
Social Culture: Everyone Uses Social Media To Spread Mission
The Networked Nonprofit 

           BE                          DO
Understand Networks         Work with Free Agents

Create Social Culture       Work with Crowds

Listen, Engage, and Build   Learning Loops
Relationships
Trust Through               Friending or Funding
Transparency
Simplicity                  Govern through Networks
Social Culture

Everyone in the organization uses social 
media to engage people inside and outside 
the organization to continuously learn how 
to improve programs, services, or reach 
communications goals.
Sharing control over their branding and marketing messages
Dealing with negative comments
Addressing personality versus organizational voice  (trusting 
employees)
Make mistakes
Make senior staff too accessible
Perception of wasted of time and resources 
Privacy and Security concerns
Suffering from information overload already, this will cause 
more
What are the conversation 
starters about social media that 
your organization needs to 
have?
The Rule Book: Social Media Policy
• Encouragement and support            • Best practices
                                           • Tone
• Why policy is needed                     • Expertise
    • Cases when it will be used,          • Respect
    distributed                            • Quality
    • Oversight, notifications, and 
    legal implications                 • Additional resources
                                           • Training
• Guidelines                               • Operational Guidelines
    • Identity and transparency            • Escalation
    • Responsibility
    • Confidentiality                  • Policy examples available at 
    • Judgment and common              wiki.altimetergroup.com
    sense
Vision Statement




 http://www.bethkanter.org/trust‐control/
Participation Guidelines for Everyone




 http://www.bethkanter.org/trust‐control/
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Trust is Cheaper than Control …..
Facebook Specific: Community
Guidelines
  “Girl Scouts of the USA welcomes interaction, 
discussion, commentary, questions and criticism 
  but ask that comments are kept relevant and 
respectful. GSUSA reserves the right to remove 
  comments or ban anyone who violates these 
   guidelines. Personal attacks, inappropriate 
 language, spamming and excessive posting will 
                not be tolerated.”
Share Pair: What’s needed to scale social inside your 
organization?
Detroit Symphony Strike:  October, 2010




Management                                         Musicians
  33% cut                                           22% cut

Social media provided a twist to the ongoing negotiations 
between musicians and the DSO
A louder mouthpiece inserted itself into the 
debate 
“Television news and newspapers write 
what they want, mostly one‐sided,” says 
Allen. “Now we were able to get our 
message out to so many people.”
– Ethan Allen,  Orchestra Librarian
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The people formerly known as the audience:  “ The rise of social media has completely 
changed the way an organization like the DSO interacts with its stakeholders.”
With a strategy and social media policy, 
social media can avoid being ….
Queen of the Night
                                    From  The Magic Flute


Flickr photo by sugarhiccuphiccup
Black Swan 
                      Queen  in 
                      Swan Lake
Flickr photo: shuri
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A well‐crafted social media strategy and good 
practice of networked nonprofits is more like ….
The Nonprofit Fortress
Use social media tools 
 to organize, mobilize, 
    raise funds, and 
  communicate with 
   constituents  but 
outside of institutional 
          walls 
Nonprofit Fortress




                     Free Agent
Global Back Channel: Other Region
                     @uncultured Shawn Ahmed




 #netnon



@amoration
@michael_hoffman
@keshields
@danportnoy
“The problem is that YOU are 
the fortress. Social media is 
not my problem.“
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Now working together on a 
project
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Ecosystem of Free Agents

Mark Horvath ‐ @hardlynormal
Free Agents:  A Variety of Approaches
Militant Optimists = Free Agents in the UK 
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Trust — Transparency — Empathy – Enthusiasm
Share Pair:   What needs to change in your foundation or 
in your grantees to open up and work with free agents?    
You want me 
                            to start 
                         Tweeting too? 




From scarcity to abundance …
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Three Models


Free                Integrated       Staff
• Intern            • Tasks in       • Full‐Time
• Volunteer           Job            • Part‐Time
• Fans




How does your organization implement social 
media? 
Offline




      Online
Make them part of your team

              Tasks
              Social Media Overview
              Account Creation/Customization
              Social Media Research
              Template Creation
              Blog Monitoring
              Blog Drafts
              Video
              Post Facebook Content
              Answer comments on Facebook
              Collect measurement data




Don’t do this to them ….
Integrate into 
job description
Wendy Harman
                               American Red Cross

                              Create ROI Measurements
                              Develop Internal Education and 
                              Training
                              Apply Social Insights to the 
                              Strategic Plan
                              Get Buy‐In from Stakeholders
                              Develops Listening and 
                              Monitoring Strategy
                              Gets Tools and Technologies in 
                              place
                              Facilitate policy and procedures
                              Community manager

Two Full‐Time Staff Members
Strategy for Scale:   Internal/External
One Minute of Silence:  What does your foundation need to do to 
             increase capacity to do social media?




                                    Flickr Photo by John K 
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Joyful funerals
Key Results:
• increasing the movement size by increasing membership
• garnering attention from all media through creative engagements
• getting policies passed
• working with aligned partner organizations
• increasing capacity



   Metrics Monday: 30 Minutes
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Share Pair:   What needs to change in your foundation or 
in your grantees to make organizational learning a habit?    
Handling Mistakes




              x

“MisTweet” – A tweet intended to come from 
a personal account but sent out on an 
organizational account by mistake.    
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Steve Norris, ex‐Tory Mayoral 
contender, says: “I think the National 
Theatre should have a Compulsory 
Demolition Order!”
X
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Two guiding principles in social media 
are to Be Human and Be Honest. Had 
the National Theatre adopted either 
policy, they might have done 
themselves a service.
This “MisTweet” by a Red Cross employee was 
out for an hour before Wendy Harman got a call 
in the middle of the night.
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Disaster recovery on the tweet …. 
Apologized and share on their blog
Employee confessed on Twitter
Got picked up by mainstream media and blogs
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Lessons Learned

•You can’t hide or not respond
•Act quickly
•Admit the mistake,  stakeholders are forgiving
•Use humor when appropriate
•Build your network before you need it
•Employees should use different Twitter apps for 
personal/organizational tweeting
•If the mistake had been damaging to the 
organization,  a social media policy would have 
been critical if taking appropriate action
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t 
run then walk, if you can’t walk then 
crawl, but whatever you do you have 
       to keep moving forward.”




              Inspiration
Where to focus …
CRAWL             WALK                 RUN              FLY




Communications    Social Media         Social Media    Multiple Channels
Strategy          Strategy             Strategy        Reflection/Improvement
Culture Change    SMART Objectives     Engagement      Network Building
                  Audience             Content
                  Listening
                  Experiments/Pilots
Listen                Promote               Participate Publish                          Build
No Engagement         Broadcast/Share       Low Engagement       Content Intensive       Network
                                                                                         High Engagement




 15 min/day       +    20 min/day       +    30 min/day      +    3‐5 hrs/wk         +   5‐10 hrs/wk

CRAWL                         WALK                                RUN                FLY
                Original concept by Beth Kanter – remix by Aliza Sherman
To be successful,  use social media like Kanye West
   What can we learned about a try and fix 
   approach to social media from Kanye West?
Source: @clairew
Source: @clairew
Source: @clairew
Source: @clairew
Thank you




Slides and Resources:  http://socialmedia‐
strategy.wikispaces.com
Beth’s Blog:  http://www.bethkanter.org
Twitter:  @kanter
Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/beth.kanter.blog

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