Greetings! I’m Robin Kipke and I work for the Center for Evaluation and Research at the University of California, Davis, which provides evaluation training and technical assistance to the 100+ projects which advocate for tobacco control policies in our state. To help these organizations discern how to effectively harness the power of social media, I’m …
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I’m Naomi Walsh and I am a novice consultant. One of the challenges of breaking into consulting is presenting yourself as a professional. One way that I do this is to share timelines for projects that I am working on – they show that I am organized and prepared, and provide a visual planning aid …
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If it is Saturday, it must be Susan. I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. Today’s post is a call to action. Hot Tip – aea365 is seeking contributors: Yes! We’re looking for aea365 authors to fill the new year with great content spanning the …
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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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Greetings everyone! I am Denise Roseland, an independent consultant with Minneapolis-based Social Venture Research & Evaluation. I have moved five times in four years and the benefit of working as a consultant is that my work moves with me. While many of my clients were once in my backyard, the many moves mean we are …
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I’m John VanDyke and this post is about work/life balance. It applies to everyone, but to evaluators in particular because we are an inquisitive lot – always seeking out how to do things better, more effectively, more efficiently, with improved outcomes and fewer inputs. This post applies to those who turn that same inquisitive outlook …
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Hello, I’m Linda Cabral, a Senior Project Director from the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In an effort to more fully engage people from different cultural backgrounds and their communities in one of our recently-completed qualitative evaluation projects for our State’s Department of Mental Health, we employed …
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My name is Rita Overton and I have been an evaluator for 20 years. I’ve called myself an organizational development specialist, an applied researcher, and a strategic consultant, but at the heart of it all, I am an evaluator. When I started working in this field, I found it difficult to explain what I did …
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I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. At the annual conference earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the Data Visualization and Reporting group’s innovative business meeting. They filled the meeting with short Ignite presentations interspersed with fun activities (well at least to evaluators!). Lesson Learned: …
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Greetings, Colleagues! I am Cindy Tananis, Director of the Collaborative for Evaluation and Assessment Capacity (CEAC) in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh (www.ceac.pitt.edu). Like many evaluation contractors, independent contractors and those in academic settings, the financial crisis looming over many not-for-profit and educational ventures, has hit our client base hard. Evaluation …
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