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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

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As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1]

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How Strategic is Your Organization’s Social Media?

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In a study it was shown that, “the hashtag measure is associated with significantly more retweets than when a hashtag is absent.” Research into the hashtags is necessary to make sure none of the hashtags are copyrighted or being used in a mocking or inappropriate manner.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Social Media is all.

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As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. In my posts, Ive described only two of the five trends in this landmark study. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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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.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on.

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Manager of Knowledge Resources ASU Lodestar Center Welcome to Research Friday ! We welcome your comments and feedback.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving.

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As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. posted by Pat Lewis , Senior Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center Welcome to Research Friday ! 18, Issue 1. (Dr.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

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As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The ASU Lodestar Center study was conducted as a dedicated wave of the Arizona Indicators Panel Study.