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Tips on Following Up After a (Virtual) Conference by Elizabeth DiLuzio

Hi AEA! My name is Elizabeth DiLuzio, volunteer curator for AEA365, internal evaluator at Good Shepherd Services, and instructor of Quantitative Methods in Evaluation at New York University. Whether AEA’s is the first or one hundredth conference you’ve attended, turning the people you meet into colleagues and friends can be a challenge. Here are some tips …

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Enter the AEA 2017 Video Contest! By Kathy Newcomer

Hi!  I’m Kathy Newcomer, president of the American Evaluation Association.  I would like to learn and share what the AEA 2017 Conference theme “From Learning to Action” means to evaluators! To help share the theme across as wide an audience as possible, we’re inviting folks to submit brief videos that explore just this.   Links to …

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#Eval2016 Week: Liz Zadnik on Evaluation 2016: Absorbing it all!

Hi there!  Liz Zadnik, aea365’s Outreach Coordinator here, with my first-timer perspective on the conference.  Fate has intervened the past few years, so I was thrilled when the stars aligned and I was able to be here.  I have learned so much and been in non-stop awe, from the opening plenary (#Breart) to the poster …

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#Eval2016 Week: Some of this year’s Poster Authors on Creating engaging posters at the intersection of Evaluation+Design

Hello there!  Liz Zadnik here – I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with a few of the authors at this year’s poster presentation and reception.  I asked some to share their experiences with poster creation, and will also add some of the innovative strategies I noticed folks using.   What would you tell a colleague …

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Memorial Week: Jean King on Remembering Bob Ingle (1926-1998), Pioneer in establishing the annual AEA conference

This is part of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA (May 30). I am Jean King, professor at the University of Minnesota and, like my colleague John McLaughlin, who collaborated with me on this In Memoriam, an original AEA member. I met Bob Ingle for the …

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CP TIG Week: Norma Seledon and Susan Ryerson Espino on “Walk the Talk”

Greetings readers!  We are Norma Seledon and Susan Ryerson Espino and we are members of the Community Psychology (CP) TIG. Over the past two years, the CP TIG has organized a “Walk the Talk” session at the AEA annual meeting. This is a way to provide members with opportunities to learn more about the conference …

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Sheila B. Robinson on the Annual Call for Proposals – Evaluation 2014

Hi! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor.  I’ve been a conference proposal reviewer for AEA’s annual conference for several years now, and always find it a wonderful learning experience and opportunity to get involved and contribute. As Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director Emeritus, posted last year, “It is a bit like being …

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Sheila B. Robinson on #eval13 – Learning from Post-Conference Reflections

Hi! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and once monthly Saturday contributor. With Evaluation 2013 a mere one week in the past, evaluation bloggers are all over it recounting, recapturing, reliving, and reflecting on conference courses and confabulations. Whether you made it to Washington, DC to experience the conference live, or watched your #eval13 …

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Evaluation 2013 Conference Week: Michael Quinn Patton on Using the Conference Program as a Data Source About Trends in Evaluation

Greetings.  My name is Michael Quinn Patton and I’ve been conducting pre-conference workshops every year since the American Evaluation Association (AEA) was established.  (Well, I did miss 1989 when the earthquake in San Francisco led to canceling the workshops.)  Over the years I’ve found that the participants in my workshops are increasingly from all over …

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