Beth Kanter (Los Altos, CA) is the author of Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media (http://beth.typepad.com), one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. A frequent contributor to many nonprofit technology and social media web sites and magazines, Beth has become a true thought leader in the social media world. She is in great demand as a speaker and trainer, and has trained nonprofits in social media techniques literally around the world. In 2009, Beth 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."

Allison Fine (Irvington, NY) is the author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age which was the winner of the 2007 Terry McAdams National Nonprofit Book Award. She also wrote Social Citizens, a paper commissioned by the Case Foundation on the intersection of young people and social media, and co-edited Rebooting America, an anthology of essays on the future of American democracy. Rebooting essayists included Newt Gingrich, Joe Trippi, Esther Dyson, and Craig Newmark. She has published articles and op-eds on the future of civic engagement, social change and voting in the Boston Globe, San Jose Mercury Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Personal Democracy Forum, Alternet and the Chronicle of Philanthropy.