Hi, I am Leah Goldstein Moses, current President of the Minnesota Evaluation Association (MNEA) and founder of the Improve Group. In both roles, relationships are very important—to both our success and joy. How do you cultivate relationships that energize and support you – and allow you to give in return? Hot tip 1: Find a …
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I’m Andrew Hawkins from ARTD Consultants in Australia. We all know the internet is increasingly used by governments to support or deliver social policy and programs but if someone asked you to evaluate a website or online service, what would you need to know? Building a successful website is no less complicated than providing a …
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Hello, my name is Juan Paulo Ramírez, independent consultant, sole owner of “GIS and Human Dimensions, L.L.C.” How many times have you used spreadsheets or sophisticated statistical software (i.e., SAS, SPSS) to estimate frequencies of a population and you asked yourself: is it really necessary to do this using very expensive and sophisticated software? Or, …
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My name is Melissa Biel and I am an independent consultant. I frequently work with hospitals, clinics and community organizations to conduct community health needs assessments. A common component of a community needs assessment is identifying access to primary health care. I have found the Uniform Data System (UDS) and the associated UDS Mapper to …
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Greetings! I’m Robin Kipke and I work for the Center for Evaluation and Research at the University of California, Davis, which provides evaluation training and technical assistance to the 100+ projects which advocate for tobacco control policies in our state. To help these organizations discern how to effectively harness the power of social media, I’m …
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My name is Melanie Ann Delano and I am a graduate student, a professional mom, and a part-time consultant. Here is a favorite resource that I wanted to share. Rad Resource – KDMC Tutorials: I recently discovered the Knight Digital Media Center’s (KDMC) Tutorials. KDMC is housed at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. …
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I am Sonny Hines. As part of a recent project, we conducted 14 focus groups and then hired a transcriptionist to transcribe the audio files. Unfortunately, part way through the transcription project, her son fell very ill and she had to hand over the remainder of the work. With only a few groups left to …
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I’m Ariana Johnson. I work with a nonprofit and they want to know whether their website is working, what parts of it are working, and how it is or is not serving their mission. I knew that I needed to learn more about analytics and I began asking around, checking in with people that I …
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My name is Christine Paulsen and I own Concord Evaluation Group. We evaluate media and technology-based initiatives. We regularly integrate usability testing with program evaluation to provide our clients with a more comprehensive picture of how their technologies and initiatives are performing. As evaluators, you know that many of the programs that we evaluate today …
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My name is Corey Newhouse and I’m the Founder and Principal of Public Profit. We help youth service and educational organizations measure and manage what matters. I’m a self-taught user of video in evaluation, and am writing to share some of my lessons learned. We have incorporated video into our evaluation studies for the last …
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