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How Strategic is Your Organization’s Social Media?

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The next step in creating an effective social media strategy is to build your social media capital, or the, “social resources in an organization’s social media network that can be accumulated, mobilized, and expended to achieve organizational outcomes,” according to an article by Guo and Saxton.

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It’s 2013: Where’s your nonprofit’s social media policy?

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Crediting other sources: As it is common practice on social media to re-post images and articles from other sources, we included links to copyright and Creative Commons instructions to better inform our employees on these legal restrictions and discussed some best-practices. Like this article? Get another!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

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The list includes 4,025 with an Arizona address, including two-thirds (2,708) with the coveted charitable exemption. Arizona doesnt have 15,000 federally-recognized charities — it now has closer to 12,000. Point is that this is one more Arizona organization that simply isnt around anymore. I really liked this article.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "The Art of Data.

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Consider the following: On the same day in the fall of 2007, two contradictory newspaper headlines accompanied high profile, front-page articles in both the East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic. The headline in the East Valley Tribune was, "More Arizona public schools are excelling." Arizona Republic : A.1.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Making the Play: Successfully Engaging.

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Like this article? Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. How does your nonprofit organization engage youth? Get another! Click here to read "If you have to leave, why did you bother coming in the first place?" — where Laura Tan discusses the impact of volunteering with minors.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: The cockroach under the refrigerator.

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So, I was immediately interested when a link to an article, titled " Good Intentions vs. Good Results ," popped up on my Twitter feed. The article is actually a blog post published last week on Sean Stannard-Stocktons Tactical Philanthropy Blog. I just saw another interesting article that is loosely related to this topic.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, is the.

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A great recent article by Curtis Child points to statements by Frumkin and others about this alleged explosion in commerciality, which he refers to as the "commercial turn." The article is pretty convincing. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. Whither the turn?" asks Child.