My name is Allen Blair and I’m not an evaluator per se, but rather a statistician. I work with evaluators to assist with statistical analyses and I am posting to aea365 to share three favorite blogs for those who are ‘numbers people’, although I think that they are actually more useful for those who find …
Allen Blair on Readings for Numbers People (or those who wish they were) Read More »
My name is Susan Kistler, and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Today, following up from vacation, I’m updating a post from February of 2010 in order to encourage you to make the most of aea365 and blog-based web content. Hot Tip – Add to and read the comments: Most, but not all, …
Susan Kistler on Commenting and Gravatars Read More »
Salutations aea365ers. I am David Hawkins, closet dummy. I have read Wine for Dummies so that I can order wine in a restaurant without getting fleeced. I bought Birds for Dummies when my daughter wanted a parakeet. Costa Rica for Dummies is helping me to plan an upcoming vacation. But as far as I know, …
David Hawkins on The Research Methods Knowledge Base Read More »
My name is Rena Matthews and I work in a small firm in California named ORI Consulting. I thought that I would share a few of the tricks that I don’t usually mention out loud but that have served me well in connecting with people and overcoming my own lack of memory for names and …
Rena Matthews on Getting Names Right Read More »
As an evaluator I am often confronted by questions that I often think about while taking the Staten Island Ferry at the end of the day. My name is Stan Capela and I am the VP for Quality Management and Corporate Compliance Officer for HeartShare Human Services. I am also the current AEA Government TIG …
Stan Capela on The Philosophical Evaluator Read More »
My name is Lisa Chauveron. I am the Director of Research & Evaluation at The Leadership Program, an urban organization that serves 18,000 youth, 500 teachers, and 6,000 parents annually in 250 underserved New York City schools. I oversee all internal program evaluations, coordinate with outside consultants, and lead external evaluations for other organizations. We …
Lisa Chauveron on the Roadmap to Effectiveness Read More »
My name is Ariana Weld and I am slowly but surely writing my doctoral thesis. I want to tell you about Scrivener. Rad Resource – Scrivener http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php: According to its website “Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. While it gives …
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Hi. I’m Victor Kuo, one of AEA’s Board Directors and liaison to the International Listening Project (ILP). AEA has launched the ILP to consider strategies that will guide AEA into enhanced engagement with the international communities of evaluators, evaluation organizations and clients of evaluation in the coming years. The Board sees this initiative as aligned …
Victor Kuo on Contributing to AEA’s International Listening Project Read More »
My name is Susan Kistler. I’m AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. Today, I thought that I would continue the ‘shortcuts’ theme and tell you about Netvibes. Rad Resource – Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com/en: Netvibes creates a personal internet dashboard. You set up one (or multiple) pages with links to key items …
Shortcut Week: Susan Kistler on Netvibes Read More »
I’m Stephen Tyler (no, not that Steven Tyler – I can’t even play an instrument) and I’m wrapping up shortcut week by sharing where you can find more shortcuts. Sometimes you stumble upon them. Sometimes a friend or family member shares them. But maybe you’re a shortcut addict, or you just want to check out …
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