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Integrating Technology into Evaluation

GSNE Week: Zoraya Cruz-Bonilla on How to Share and Track Changes in Excel

Greetings, I am Zoraya Cruz-Bonilla from Binghamton University in New York. As a data research assistant, I have come across all sorts of data both big and small. Regardless of the size, each project solicits the expertise of multiple evaluators; therefore, it is not unusual for more than one person to work on the same …

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LAWG Week: Matthew Von Hendy on How Evaluators Find and Use Research

Hello! My name is Matthew Von Hendy, I am a professional research librarian and recently started my own business, Green Heron Information Services, a small research consulting company that provides information services to evaluators and other clients. For the past three months, I have been conducting informational interviews with professional evaluators to understand how they …

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Kerry Bruce on Taking Your Data Collection to the Field with Mobile Phone Technology

Hello, I am Kerry Bruce, Director of Results and Measurement at Pact and I’m currently based in Madagascar and support Pact programs in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. In 2012 we started to roll out the use of mobile technology in our programs including evaluation.  This third post in the series on how to get started with mobile phone technology …

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Susan Kistler on Learning From DVR Innovation

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director Emeritus and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. After over three years, this is my last day as your ongoing Saturday author. I’ll be moving to once a month for at least the near future. The other Saturdays will be filled by Sheila Robinson, our intrepid aea365 curator, …

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DVR Week: Miranda Yates Using Data Visualization to Keep Your Logic Model Front and Center

Hi, I am Miranda Yates, Director of Program Evaluation and Planning (PEP) at Good Shepherd Services (GSS), a youth and family development, multi-service agency in New York City. My PEP colleagues, Barbara Alcantara, Nora Casey, and Cathleen Mitchell, and I have developed a visually engaging report template that keeps staff focused on the key outputs …

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Kerry Bruce on Choosing a Mobile Technology Platform for Your Evaluation

Hello, I am Kerry Bruce, the Director of Results and Measurement at Pact.  I’m currently based in Madagascar and support Pact programs in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. I am part of Pact’s central technical team that provides monitoring and evaluation support to more than 20 country offices and more than 70 projects around the world.  In 2012 we …

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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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Taj Carson on Visualizing Neighborhood-Level Data with Baltimore DataMind

I’m Taj Carson, the President of Carson Research Consulting (CRC) in Baltimore, MD. CRC is a research and evaluation consulting firm and we’ve seen first-hand how neighborhood-level data is increasingly being used for tasks such as identifying community conditions and trends or measuring population-level outcomes in research and evaluation. Recently, I was in a meeting …

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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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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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