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IC Week: Norma Martinez-Rubin on Small is Beautiful–Business Savvy for an Enduring Practice

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / October 7, 2012 September 27, 2012

I’m Norma Martinez-Rubin, an independent evaluation consultant with a practice focused on evaluating disease prevention and health promotion projects. Small-sized independent evaluation consultancies can offer clients the accessibility and nimbleness absent in larger organizations mired in their own bureaucracies. Our multiple roles as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operations Officer, Chief Informational Officer, and Chief Creative …

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Susan Kistler on Two Terrific Evaluation Podcasts

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Independent Consulting, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / September 15, 2012 September 15, 2012

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 regular Saturday contributor. I’ve written before about podcasts of interest to evaluators, but they were from peripheral fields. Today, I’m excited to see evaluators entering the fray. Hot Tip – Podcasts are for everyone: The word ‘podcast’ is associated …

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Jennifer Miller on Building Trusting Customer-Consultant Relationships

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Independent Consulting / August 16, 2012 August 12, 2012

Hi, I’m Jennifer V. Miller. For my entire career, I’ve been in some sort of consultative role – either internally as a human resource generalist and training manager in corporate America, or for my consulting company SkillSource. When you are a consultant your primary role is to assess, then make recommendations for improvement. It’s my …

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Carolyn Cohen and Davis Patterson on Interview Design Process

5 Comments / Independent Consulting / June 1, 2012 May 21, 2012

Hello, we are Carolyn Cohen (Manager, Cohen Research & Evaluation, LLC) and Davis Patterson (Research Scientist, University of Washington Department of Family Medicine). We have partnered on several evaluations over the years, and are always excited to try out new facilitation strategies. We sometimes find ourselves challenged by access to, and time constraints of, potential …

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WE Week: Sue Griffey on Free, Online (No-Install) Resources for Evaluator Efficiency

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Independent Consulting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / May 18, 2012 May 18, 2012

I’m Sue Griffey, Director of the Evaluation Center in the Public Health Research group at Social & Scientific Systems in Silver Spring (MD) and blogger at Sue Mentors. It never fails that the time that I’m crunching at a deadline for getting a report or presentation done is when I need to do something that I …

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WE Week: Bernadette Wright on Evaluating the Decision to Be an Independent Evaluator

1 Comment / Independent Consulting / May 15, 2012 April 23, 2012

This is Bernadette Wright. In April 2012, I made the jump to starting out as an independent consulting/sole proprietor of Wright Evaluation and Applied Research. Lesson Learned: When I first starting exploring the idea of taking the plunge to independent consulting, it seemed like it could be a risky, scary move to make. However, I …

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WE Week: Ann Emery on The Diversity of Evaluation Opportunities in DC

2 Comments / Independent Consulting / May 13, 2012 May 13, 2012

Hi, I’m Ann Emery. All this week, you’ll hear from members of the Washington Evaluators about the diversity of evaluation opportunities that are available in DC. Evaluation is booming in DC! This is the best city in the world for evaluators because we can choose to specialize in one area or try out different settings, approaches, and content areas throughout our …

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Bloggers Series: Catherine (Brehm) Rain on The Evaluation Forum

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Independent Consulting / April 27, 2012 February 7, 2012

My name is Catherine (Brehm) Rain, Vice President of Rain & Brehm Consulting Group, Inc., an independent evaluation and consulting firm located in Rockledge, Florida. I blog at The Evaluation Forum. Rad Resource – The Evaluation Forum: New to our website, The Evaluation Forum focuses on the why and wherefore of evaluation of health promotion …

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Sarah Gill on the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association Spring Social 2012

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Independent Consulting, Internal Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 4, 2012 March 9, 2012

I’m Sarah Gill, membership chair for the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA). Recently AaEA hosted a spring social. The event was inspired by the recent AEA 365 posts making predictions for the future of evaluation. Maureen Wilce, AaEA’s chair for professional development, and I thought the posts would inspire great conversation among our fellow evaluators – …

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Priya Small on “What I Wish I Had Known in My Beginner Evaluator Days”

4 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Independent Consulting / March 28, 2012 March 2, 2012

I am Priya Small, an independent public health evaluation consultant, and today I will talk about lessons I have learned from riding the steep learning curve. Many times we may tend to devalue our early learning experiences as evaluators. But as this is a time of rapid growth, sharing these lessons is profitable. Lesson Learned: …

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