Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association (AEA). In the fast-paced world of social media, things are always changing. Just as soon as you stop to take a breath, Facebook has tweaked its algorithm again. Or Twitter has updated its design. Recently, there have been a …
Dan McDonnell on 4 Recent Social Media Changes You May Have Missed Read More »
“Ok, glass.” That’s how you activate Google Glass. I’m David Fetterman and that’s me to the right wearing Google Glass. I’m an empowerment evaluation synergist and consultant, busy father and spouse, and owner of Fetterman & Associates. Rad Resource – Google Glass: Google Glass is a voice and gesture activated pair of glasses that lets …
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Hi, I’m Audrey Rorrer and I’m an evaluator for the Center for Education Innovation in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where several projects I evaluate operate at multiple locations across the country. Multisite evaluations are loaded with challenges, such as data collection integrity, evaluation training for …
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In my last post, we touched on how evaluators can use Google + Authorship to add photos to their blog posts that will appear in Google search results. Besides making search results a bit more pretty, these photos can help you with grow your personal brand, as well as increase the likelihood that someone clicks through to read your post from Google. In this post, I will outline a few more tips and tricks for making Authorship work for you.
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!
I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I post each Saturday to aea365. On January 1, 2010, we started aea365 with three subscribers – myself, John LaVelle our intrepid intern responsible for overseeing aea365 startup, and a relative who shall remain unnamed but wanted to support our efforts. In the first few …
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Hello, my name is Juan Paulo Ramírez, independent consultant, sole owner of “GIS and Human Dimensions, L.L.C.” How many times have you used spreadsheets or sophisticated statistical software (i.e., SAS, SPSS) to estimate frequencies of a population and you asked yourself: is it really necessary to do this using very expensive and sophisticated software? Or, …
Juan Paulo Ramírez on Google Refine – The tool of the year for evaluators! Read More »
I’m Shelby First, an overworked, underpaid, totally exhausted, happy with my life, graduate student. This is a companion piece to the one written by John VanDyke earlier this week, John wrote about Lifehacker, Zenhabits, and MakeUseOf – three of my favorite sites for hacking your life by finding those little efficiencies and tools that make …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. At AEA’s annual conference in Anaheim earlier this month LaMarcus Bolton and I gave a demonstration of low-cost/no-cost tools for evaluators. We shared great tools that we’ve used, ones recommended by colleagues via aea365, and …
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I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and contributor for each Saturday’s aea365 post. This week I’m writing on Thursday and queuing it up for Saturday, anticipating a couple of busy days ahead. I also serve as a houseparent at a small Boarding school on the south coast of Massachusetts, known as “the School by the …
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