I’m Cameron Norman and I am the Principal at CENSE Research + Design where I bring together systems thinking and design with evaluation to help organizations adapt and evolve in complex systems. I use my blog as a way to explore ideas and educate my students, colleagues and clients (present and future) about many of …
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Greetings! My name is Trina Willard and I am the Principal of Knowledge Advisory Group, a small consulting firm in Central Virginia that provides research and evaluation services to nonprofits, government agencies and small businesses. In addition to client work, I teach evaluation to nonprofit professionals and blog whenever I can. Rad Resource – For …
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Hello, I’m Glenn O’Neil, founder of Owl RE, evaluation consultancy and co-author of the Intelligent Measurement blog. Rad Resource – Intelligent Measurement: The blog focuses on issues and trends in evaluation, with a particular focus on communications, advocacy and development. Blogging since 2006, we average about one post per week. Our blog has on average …
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Hi! I’m Sara Vaca, an economist reconverted into an evaluator and at the same time Data “Visualizer”. My idea is becoming a full time evaluator somewhere in the world, but for the moment I’m happy working as an evaluator consultant for short missions, based in Southern France. Rad Resource – Visualbrains.info: In 2011 while on …
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Hello! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365 Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. A short time ago, Nicole Vicinanza, a member of the AEA board, challenged aea365 readers to comment on this post and share whether they consider AEA their “professional home” and how they connect with AEA. As there was a gift certificate at stake for …
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My name is Girija Kaimal and I am an Assistant Professor at Drexel University. Several evaluations I have done lately have been conducted remotely. Long distance evaluations can result from a range of reasons: modest program budgets, location independence of the initiatives as well as, short turnaround times that preclude travel and on-site data collection. …
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Hi! I’m Rachel Hickson, an evaluation specialist with Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, MD. Observations can be vital to measuring program fidelity. Yet they take a disproportionate share of effort and money when compared with other data collection methods. Can we stretch their utility to produce better data? Lesson Learned: You don’t have a …
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I’m Kylie Hutchinson, independent evaluator and owner of Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation (www.communitysolutions.ca) and regular Tweeter @EvaluationMaven. Every year I adapt a Christmas carol to share with my colleagues and clients. This will be my third year sharing it with AEA365. Rad Resource: This year the use of systems in evaluation really resonated with …
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Hello! I am Laura Beals and I am an internal evaluator at Jewish Family and Children’s Service (JF&CS). JF&CS is a large nonprofit social service agency located just outside of Boston, MA. As our programs span a range of areas—parents and children, people with disabilities and mental illness, community services, and seniors—I often need to …
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Greetings from Canada! My name is Chi Yan Lam (@chiyanlam) and I am a PhD student working in the areas of educational assessment and program evaluation at Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario. You are probably already familiar with legitimate uses of Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook in relation to evaluation learning, but have you thought about …
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