About Our Speakers
Beth Kanter is Chief Executive Officer of Zoetica. Beth is also the author of Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media, one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector. 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 and published in 2009. 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. 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 the 2009 Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits for the Packard Foundation. She is also a 2010 fellow with the Society for Communications Research.