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Susan Kistler

Susan Kistler on Life’s Success Criteria

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director Emeritus and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Rad Resource – Juice Analytics Blog: The staff at Juice Analytics puts out one of my favorite blogs focusing on data use, analysis, and visualization. Their tag line alone “Your data is meant for action” …

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Susan Kistler on the (Mostly) Joys of Using (Free) Haiku Deck to Make Gorgeous Slides

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director Emeritus of the American Evaluation Association. I am a student of the act of presenting, always on the lookout for ways to improve. Rad Resource – Haiku Deck: I have been trying out Haiku Deck, an alternative to PowerPoint for creating presentation slide decks. …

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Susan Kistler on Changes Afoot at the American Evaluation Association

Changes are afoot! My name is Susan Kistler and I am just about to become the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director emeritus. I’ve written before about my stepping down and my last official day in this position is this coming Monday, May 20. I’ll continue to write for aea365, and will be working on the …

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Susan Kistler on the AEA/BetterEvaluation Webinar Series and Making the Most of YouTube

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Guess what just moved into the #1 spot for the most read aea365 article of all time? The April 6, 2013 post announcing the collaboration with BetterEvaluation to produce a series of publicly available Coffee Break Webinars! We’re well under …

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Susan Kistler on an eCommunications and eCommunities TIG and Resources

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. We’re talking eCommunications and eCommunities this week. Get Involved – Work on eTIG Planning: I am considering starting an AEA TIG on Evaluation of eCommunications and eCommunities (the name may need a bit of tweaking). We’d focus on issues involved …

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Susan Kistler on Winning a Free eStudy Registration, Comic Life, and Evaluation Communication Ideas

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Earlier this month, you heard from Soledad Muñiz about  InsightShare’s work with participatory video (PV) for monitoring and evaluation. PV isn’t the only area in which InsightShare is leading the way. Hot Tip – Photostories: Photostories are a “new format …

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Susan Kistler on BetterEvaluation and Eight Free Training Webinars

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Hot Tip – Collaboration with BetterEvaluation: Today, we’re excited to announce a partnership with BetterEvaluation. BetterEvaluation is an international collaboration to improve evaluation practice and theory by sharing information about options (methods or tools) and approaches. Rad Resource – BetterEvaluation …

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Video in #Eval Week: Soldedad Muñiz on Participatory Video for Monitoring & Evaluation

My name is Soledad Muñiz and I’m the Head of PV M&E at InsightShare. Susan has kindly introduced our work and methodology in this post some weeks ago. And as she anticipated, I’m here today to share some of our experiences using Participatory Video for Monitoring & Evaluation (PV M&E). Lessons Learned – how we’re …

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Video in #Eval Week: Corey Newhouse on Using Video as an Elicitation Technique

Hi there. I’m Corey Newhouse, the Founder and Principal of Public Profit, based in Oakland, California. We help public service organizations measure and manage what matters. Lessons Learned – how we’re using video: Public Profit uses video in our evaluation of the Partnerships for Learning (PFL) initiative of the National Equity Project. We use video …

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