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Summer Evaluation Institute Attendees on Low-cost No-cost Tools for Evaluators Part II

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / June 15, 2011 June 15, 2011

At the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute, over 150 attendees went to a session on Low-cost/No-cost Tools for Evaluators. Here are some of the great ideas recommended from the audience, Day 2! EasyBib: Create your bibliography in MLA Style, add APA style and other added functionality for $20 for the year. Search the database for existing …

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Summer Evaluation Institute Attendees on Low-cost No-cost Tools for Evaluators Part I

2 Comments / Uncategorized / June 14, 2011 June 14, 2011

At the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute, over 150 attendees went to a session on Low-cost/No-cost Tools for Evaluators. Here are some of the great ideas recommended from the audience: Prezi: Prezi is presentation software that zooms around your presentation content (yes – truly zooms, you sort of have to see it to get it, go …

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John Fallowsmith on Loving Firefox and Foxy Add-ons

1 Comment / Uncategorized / June 13, 2011 June 13, 2011

My name is John Fallowsmith and I’m a Firefox lover. I’ve tried not to be so attached to my foxy little friend, but I can’t help it. Each time I stray elsewhere, I come back to her open arms, her many talents making any other browser seem limited and limiting. Lesson Learned: Firefox is a …

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Amir Fallah on Resources for International Evaluators

1 Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / June 12, 2011 June 15, 2011

My name is Amir Fallah and I will be sharing resources for those practicing M&E (Monitoring and Evaluation) in the international sector. Rad Resource – My M&E: My M&E (Monitoring and Evaluation) MY M&E is an online collaboratively-developed home for M&E practitioners around the world. The list of partners includes the International Organization for Cooperation …

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Susan Kistler on Evaluation Job Banks

2 Comments / Uncategorized / June 11, 2011 June 10, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler. I’m the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. It’s spring – time for graduation and new beginnings. Are you searching for positions in evaluation? Here are three places to begin the hunt. Rad Resource – AEA Career Center: This is your …

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Veena Pankaj and Myia Welsh on Participatory Analysis: Expanding Stakeholder Involvement in Evaluation

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / June 6, 2011 June 2, 2011

Greetings fellow evaluators! Our names are Veena Pankaj and Myia Welsh and we work for Innovation Network, a Washington DC-based evaluation firm. While Innovation Network has always used a participatory approach to evaluation, we recently came to the realization that much of the ‘participatory-ness’ of our evaluation projects was limited to evaluation planning and data …

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Susan Kistler on the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / June 4, 2011 June 3, 2011

Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director and Saturday contributor for aea365. I’m excited to be able to share this week that AEA is now taking applications for the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program. The goals of GEDI are to: Expand the pool of graduate students of color and from other underrepresented groups who …

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Sharon Jones-Viera on Finding the aea365 Archive

1 Comment / Uncategorized / June 3, 2011 June 3, 2011

I’m Sharon Jones-Viera and I subscribed to aea365 back in March. I’m hooked. And, I didn’t know that there was lots more to be had. Hot Tip: There are over 500 past daily alerts in the aea365 archive. I didn’t realize this. I signed up to get aea365 via email and was happy to have …

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John Colon on Nine Tech Tools That Make Life Easier

4 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Independent Consulting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / June 2, 2011 June 1, 2011

My name is John Colon and I work for Better Questions Better Answers. I’m amazed by what is available, for free, for my computer. Here are some of my favorite, can’t live without, better than sliced bread tools. Rad Resources: I’d like to share 9 tools that make my life easier. 10: Gantzilla: Free version …

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Laurel Lamb on the Golden Rule for Evaluators

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / June 1, 2011 June 1, 2011

My name is Laurel Lamb and I’ve been a practicing evaluator (although sometimes under the guise of organizational development) for over twenty years. When I sat down to write, I wanted to contemplate what I would share with someone new coming into the field. What have I learned that you couldn’t find in a textbook …

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