I’m Jolene VillaLobos and I work as a part-time program director/part-time evaluator for a mid-size nonprofit. We’ve recently been exploring the use of video which has meant that I’ve been exploring tools to help in that quest. Hot Tip: Vimeo is a free video hosting service. It hosts videos, just as YouTube hosts videos, but …
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We are Mary Kane and Scott Rosas, Principal and Senior Consultants at Concept Systems, Inc. located in Ithaca, NY. Our total concept mapping years number almost 30, and our work often focuses on surfacing and incorporating the values and perspectives of diverse stakeholders in planning and evaluation. Concept mapping engages people and their opinions and …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association and author of aea365’s Saturday posts. Today, I wanted to call to your attention the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Better Life Index (BLI). OECD launched the BLI in May, describing it as a “new, interactive index that …
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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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Cheers aea365 readers! My name is Alex da Silva from Brazil. While I may be able to undertake analyses in SAS, I find myself turning more frequently to Microsoft Excel because so many people can then use it. If I set up something in Excel I can be more confident that my collaborators are going …
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Our names are Lindsey Dunn and Lauren Fluegge and we are PhD. students at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Recently, we have been involved with a project in which the data come from many different sources and often include hundreds of thousands of cases. We used primarily three programs to organize and merge …
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I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. I was inspired by Dorian’s 4/28 post on 5 must-read blogs for those working in nonprofits, and thought I would share a few must see/hear webcasts and podcasts with which you may not be familiar. Rad Resource – Videos on Evaluation Methods from UNICEF: …
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My name is Sherry Boyce, Extension Educator in Program Evaluation with the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development. I have worked for Extension for 30 years, in a variety of youth development roles. I have also done extensive photography as a volunteer with several youth programs. I’d like to share some thoughts about …
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Susan Kistler here, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Excited to connect after a long, but very productive, week. I spent the last week in Philadelphia training with Stephen McDaniel, author of Rapid Graphs with Tableau and SAS for Dummies, striving to up my game around data visualization and reporting. Lesson Learned: The question you …
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Good Morning! Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director. We’ve had a number of posts talking about creating and using word clouds, primarily in terms of creating them through wordle. Word clouds take a set of text and create a cloud of the most frequent words in that text with word size within the cloud based …
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