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Beth is the author of Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media ([|http://www.bethkanter.org]), one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits and co-author of the fortcoming book, [|The Networked Nonprofit], published by J. Wiley in 2010. Beth is the CEO of Zoetica, a company that serves nonprofits and socially conscious companies with top-tier, online marketing services. A much in demand speaker and trainer, she was the keynote speaker for the Cambodian Bloggers Conference in Phnom Penh, The Connecting Up Conference in Brisbane, Australia, Minnesota Council on Nonprofits, Making Media Conference in Chicago and 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, SWSX, Blogher, and Podcamp.

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. Beth contributed a chapter to "Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders," edited by NTEN both published in 2009. 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]." She is theVisiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits for the Packard Foundation.

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