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Bloggers Week: Amanda Babine on Evaluate for Change’s Data-Driven Nonprofit Blog

Hello! My name is Amanda Babine and I am the Director of Evaluate for Change, a program evaluation company that provides training exclusively to nonprofits dedicated to measuring their impact, and a researcher at Columbia University in the City of New York. Rad Resources – Evaluate for Change’s Data-Driven Nonprofit Blog The company started inviting …

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Bloggers Week: Wendy L. Tackett on Carpe Diem

I’m Wendy Tackett, the president of iEval, a part-time faculty member at Western Michigan University, and a new blogger in 2014. Rad Resource – Carpe Diem: Make Your Evaluations Useful! Three of my iEval colleagues and I started this weekly blog last June primarily to help evaluators make their evaluations more useful. Hot Tips – …

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Bloggers Week: Molly Hamm on Learning Culture

Saludos from the Dominican Republic! My name is Molly Hamm, and I’m the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator for the educational non-profit organization The DREAM Project as well as the author of the evaluation blog Learning Culture. Rad Resource – Learning Culture: My blog—still shy of its one-year anniversary—is all about asking and answering interesting …

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Bloggers Week: Trina Willard on For Good Measure

Greetings! My name is Trina Willard and I am the Principal of Knowledge Advisory Group, a small consulting firm in Central Virginia that provides research and evaluation services to nonprofits, government agencies and small businesses.  In addition to client work, I teach evaluation to nonprofit professionals and blog whenever I can. Rad Resource – For …

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Bloggers Week: Glenn O’Neil on Intelligent Measurement

Hello, I’m Glenn O’Neil, founder of Owl RE, evaluation consultancy and co-author of the Intelligent Measurement blog. Rad Resource – Intelligent Measurement: The blog focuses on issues and trends in evaluation, with a particular focus on communications, advocacy and development. Blogging since 2006, we average about one post per week.  Our blog has on average …

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Bloggers Week: Sara Vaca on Visual Brains

Hi! I’m Sara Vaca, an economist reconverted into an evaluator and at the same time Data “Visualizer”. My idea is becoming a full time evaluator somewhere in the world, but for the moment I’m happy working as an evaluator consultant for short missions, based in Southern France. Rad Resource – Visualbrains.info: In 2011 while on …

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Dan McDonnell on Adding a Photo to Your Blog Post in Google Search Results

Have you ever Googled something and noticed a photo that has made its way into the search page (see fig. a)? This is a recent Google + feature called Authorship – a neat tool that allows Google + users to have their profile photo appear alongside search results for their blog posts. Not only does this create a link between your blog content and your Google + profile, but it also can increase the likelihood that someone clicks the link to your blog post via search results (by as much as 150%, by some sources), no small feat!