Good Morning! Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director. We’ve had a number of posts talking about creating and using word clouds, primarily in terms of creating them through wordle. Word clouds take a set of text and create a cloud of the most frequent words in that text with word size within the cloud based …
Susan Kistler on Leaving Wordle for Tagxedo Read More »
My name is Stella SiWan Zimmerman and I am the President of ACET, Inc., a research and evaluation consulting firm based in Minneapolis, MN. We specialize in the evaluation of education, public health, and community-based programs in order to improve organizational effectiveness and build evaluation capacity. Over the years, I have produced and reviewed many …
MNEA Week: Stella SiWan Zimmerman on Key Outcome Reporting Details Read More »
My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I am one of the facilitators of the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Essential Skills Series course in Canada and regularly present a workshop on Effective Reporting Techniques for Evaluators at AEA conferences and the AEA Summer Institute. …
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I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. What a great week of content on Data Visualization and Reporting (DVR)! Thanks to everyone who contributed, commented, and collaborated to make it happen. I’m excited to explore the breadth and depth of DVR resources and believe that this …
My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. This week I am excited to welcome AEA’s newest Topical Interest Group (TIG) focusing on Data Visualization and Reporting (DVR). All this week, we’ll be reading aea365 posts from our DVR colleagues and have DVR items highlighted on the Headlines and Resources list (you …
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My name is Gail Krc. I am the evaluation team leader for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ Office of Policy Initiatives and Budget, Policy and Research Section. I’d like to share information about the evaluation resource guide we developed. Resource: Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) Evaluation Resource Guide. This free resource provides links …
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I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. The start of the year seemed like a good time to look reflectively at 2010 monitoring data for aea365. Lesson Learned – Compile information from multiple sources: Back in May, I wrote about monitoring blog use using Feedburner and …
Susan Kistler on Learning From and Reporting Subscriber and Pageview Data Read More »
AEA365 began on January 1, 2010. Before we promoted this resource, we reached out to dedicated authors who believed in the project in order to populate the site with starter content. Those who contributed in week 1 wrote for an audience of fewer than 10. One year later we have over 1500 subscribers and are …
Laura Blasi on Sparklines Read More »
AEA365 began on January 1, 2010. Before we promoted this resource, we reached out to dedicated authors who believed in the project in order to populate the site with starter content. Those who contributed in week 1 wrote for an audience of fewer than 10. One year later we have over 1500 subscribers and are …
Amy Germuth on Reporting Findings Read More »
My name is Bonnie Stabile and I teach Program Evaluation in the MPA and MPP programs at George Mason University. I served as a session scribe at Evaluation 2010 and attended session number 535, Teaching About Specific Aspects of Evaluation. I chose this session because I am interested in learning about innovative facets of the …
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