Veronica Olazabal (Rockefeller Foundation) and Linda Raftree (Kurante) here on considerations for data dashboards. Linda recently organized a Tech Salon on this at The Rockefeller Foundation. A session around dashboards had to include Stephanie Evergreen. We also wanted to hear from others, so we included Shawna Hoffman (MasterCard Foundation) and John DeRiggi (DAI). Dashboards might …
Hi, my name is Vardhani Ratnala and I am a monitoring and evaluation professional. Sometime back, a project I associated with was shut down following an evaluation. This got me reflecting on donor attitudes towards project evaluations, especially their reactions following an evaluation which shows negative results. A cloak of secrecy descends on such projects …
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Hi! We’re Judy Savageau from UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research and Len Levin from the medical school’s Lamar Soutter Library. With our evaluation and library colleagues, we’ve authored several previous posts on integrating library science and its resources (including our librarian colleagues) to both conduct and disseminate evaluation findings. Today, we …
Hello, my name is Jayne Corso. I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Evaluation 2015 attendees were very active on social media. We had fun following your photos, connections, and insights from this year’s conference. Your activity on twitter helped to shape the overall Evaluation 2015 experience for those who were …
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Hello all! Liz Zadnik here with another Saturday post. I can’t believe it’s already November – I don’t know about you, but time is really flying! Today’s post is an update on my reading list post. My first book was Marie Kondo’s The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up, partly because I am an unabashed organizer and …
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Hello All! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and very tired conference-goer, sharing some closing thoughts from some of evaluation’s thought leaders. Today we celebrated the end of #Eval15 week in song,* much the same way as we have in past years. Throughout the week we listened, we learned, we observed, we met, and we …
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Greetings! We are Donna Podems, Amiee White (AEA board members), and Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator with some tips and advice for creating a killer conference poster. We served as judges of the Evaluation 2015 Potent Presentations (p2i) Poster Competition and used p2i criteria to identify the top two posters that came closest to …
Hello aea365-ers and #Eval15 conference goers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator, sometimes Saturday contributor, and this week…conference-goer! Lesson Learned: The Twittersphere is lighting up with #Eval15 happenings! Earlier this week on aea365 Stewart Donaldson, our 2015 AEA president, shared conference registration data with us. Now, he’s tweeted the following update: Approximately 5000 now registered for …
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Hi my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for AEA. Social media is a great way to interact with other evaluators and gain the most up-to-date information on Evaluation 2015. Try these tips to get the most out of social media and increase engagement with fellow evaluators. Use the Hashtag: Follow …
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I’m Tom Archibald, Chief of Party of the USAID/Education and Research in Agriculture project in Senegal and Assistant Professor of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech. I’ve just arrived in Chicago and am looking forward to another exciting week full of learning, connecting, and fun! Jane Buckley and I are getting ready for …
