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What does all this buzz around social media mean for organizations and their leadership?  A cultural paradigm-shift is happening all around us with new technologies that enable us to be chatting, tweeting, texting, video conferencing with colleagues across the county and sharing with constituents half-way across the globe. 

How will your organization not be one that reacts but one that adapts and uses these new social tools to make a greater impact on your goals? 

The social media divas, Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, are researching this and more in an upcoming book that will help social change managers switch lenses from managing organizations to managing social networks.  Social change happens through these networks, so learning how to grow, nurture, and manage them well is the key to success.

Join us for our October Ask the Expert when we'll talk with Beth and Allison, and answer YOUR questions on social media and organizational change.  

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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. A frequent contributor to many nonprofit technology web sites and magazines, Beth has authored chapters in several books, including "Psychology of Facebook Applications," edited by BJ Fogg, Stanford University and "Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders," edited by NTEN both to be published in 2009. A much in demand speaker and trainer, and she has trained nonprofits in social media techniques literally around the world. In 2009, 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." In March, 2009, she will serve as the 2009 Scholar in Residence for Social Media and Nonprofits for the Packard Foundation. Read more about Beth here.

Allison Fine 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, the winner of the Terry McAdams National Book Award, was published in 2006 by Wiley & Sons. The Case Foundation commissioned her to write a paper on young people, Millennials, and activism called Social Citizens, and she co-edited a collection of essays, Rebooting America, of transformative ways to reinvent 21st century democracy using new media tools. Allsion hosts a monthly podcast for the Chronicle of Philanthropy called Social Good and write on my own blog, A. Fine Blog. She is also a senior advisor to the Personal Democracy Forum and CauseWired. Read more about Allison here.

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