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    <title>The Smart Communications Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Research”</title>
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  <title>Episode 157: How can you raise awareness and build trust?</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Get helpful ideas that allow your nonprofit organization to connect awareness and action in building relationships with your audiences.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Farra Trompeter, co-director, sits down with Derrick Feldmann, managing director of Ad Council Research Institute and Ad Council Edge, who shares tips for nonprofit staff who are looking to connect awareness and action, to reach people who are hard to reach, and who want to equip trusted messengers to be amplifiers of their mission. 
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  <title>Episode 113: How can you use research to understand your brand perception?</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>What kind of research can an organization conduct if they want to understand their brand perception? How can you engage your community and center equity in the process?</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Episode 82: How do you center your community as you do research?</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>In this podcast, Sarah Durham chats with Seema Shah, PhD, founder and principal of COMM|VEDA Consulting about the intersection between research and equity, and equity-focused research. </itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Episode 58: Interviews, focus groups, or surveys: which should you use?</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>How does your brand resonate with your participants? Learn how you can conduct your own research using interviews, focus groups, and surveys with Sarah Durham and Laura Fisher. </itunes:subtitle>
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