Hello, my name is Lindsey Stillman and I work at Cloudburst Consulting Group, a small business that provides technical assistance and support for a number of different Federal Agencies. My background is in Clinical-Community Psychology and so providing technical assistance around evaluation and planning is my ideal job! Currently I am working with several communities …
Hi, I’m Maureen Wilce, a founding member of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association, and I’m Sarah Gill, president elect of AaEA. We’re both “true believers” in the power of evaluation to guide organizational learning. We’ve seen how good evaluation questions can help uncover important information to improve programs. We’ve also seen the opposite: how bad evaluation …
Hi, my name is Travis Tatum and I currently work as an independent evaluator through my company Creative Research Solutions, LLC. As President of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association it is my pleasure to welcome you to our affiliate’s AEA365 week! This week, our members will be contributing AEA365 posts with advice, best practices, and new tools …
Hello, my name is Jayne Corso. I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and I manage AEA’s social media presence (@aeaweb). This past week at Evaluation 2014, our event hashtag (#eval14) took on a life of its own and racked up a total of 5,601 tweets thanks to your postings, retweets, …
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Hi, I’m Sheila Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with reflections from Denver as we wrap up Evaluation 2014. I’ve enjoyed five AEA conferences now, each one as exciting a learning and community-building opportunity as the last. I spent time thinking deeply about our conference theme and discovering the connections among the various …
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Hello everyone! My name is Leigh M. Tolley, and I am an advanced doctoral student in the department of Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation at Syracuse University, and a Research Assistant at Hezel Associates, LLC in Syracuse, NY. I realized on the way to Denver that this is my fifth AEA conference! Lesson Learned: I …
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Hi! I’m Jayne Corso, Community Manager for AEA with some early perspectives from Day 1 of Evaluation 2014. The twittersphere lit up this afternoon as Beverly Parsons, our current AEA president gave her plenary talk, Visionary Evaluation for Sustainable, Equitable Future. Evaluators were especially impressed with young Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez of Earth Guardians. Thanks @X4Earth @earthguardianz for an …
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My name is Dan McDonnell and I am the Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association. Ever wanted to be a professional conference insider? Social media offers a fascinating way to add an extra level of experience to any conference you attend, and provides you extra content, as well as the means to discover fellow …
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Hello! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and frequent contributor with a woman-on-the-street (well, woman lurking in conference room) report from first time attendees at #eval14. This afternoon, I caught up with participants from Presenting Data Effectively: Practical Methods for Improving Evaluation Communication. Tanya Hills, Evaluation Manager with the USTA Foundation wanted to learn …
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Hi everyone! I’m Beverly Parsons, 2014 AEA president. I’m also executive director of InSites, a research, evaluation, and planning organization. Evaluation 2014 is finally here! I’d like to kick off this week of conference-focused AEA365 posts by highlighting the conference theme, Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future. The graphic summarizes the key message. It …
