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Sheila B Robinson on #Eval14 – Visionary Evaluation and the Big Blue Bear

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 20, 2014

Hi, I’m Sheila Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with reflections from Denver as we wrap up Evaluation 2014. I’ve enjoyed five AEA conferences now, each one as exciting a learning and community-building opportunity as the last. I spent time thinking deeply about our conference theme and discovering the connections among the various …

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Leigh M. Tolley on Taking a Chance and Getting Involved at Evaluation 2014

2 Comments / Uncategorized / October 15, 2014

Hello everyone! My name is Leigh M. Tolley, and I am an advanced doctoral student in the department of Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation at Syracuse University, and a Research Assistant at Hezel Associates, LLC in Syracuse, NY. I realized on the way to Denver that this is my fifth AEA conference! Lesson Learned: I …

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Jayne Corso on Early Perspectives from #eval14

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 15, 2014

Hi! I’m Jayne Corso, Community Manager for AEA with some early perspectives from Day 1 of Evaluation 2014. The twittersphere lit up this afternoon as Beverly Parsons, our current AEA president gave her plenary talk, Visionary Evaluation for  Sustainable, Equitable Future. Evaluators were especially impressed with young Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez of Earth Guardians. Thanks @X4Earth @earthguardianz for an …

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Dan McDonnell on Using Twitter to Enhance Your Conference Experience

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 14, 2014

My name is Dan McDonnell and I am the Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association. Ever wanted to be a professional conference insider? Social media offers a fascinating way to add an extra level of experience to any conference you attend, and provides you extra content, as well as the means to discover fellow …

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Sheila B Robinson on Perspectives from First-Time #Eval14 Attendees

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 13, 2014

Hello! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and frequent contributor with a woman-on-the-street (well, woman lurking in conference room) report from first time attendees at #eval14. This afternoon, I caught up with participants from Presenting Data Effectively: Practical Methods for Improving Evaluation Communication. Tanya Hills, Evaluation Manager with the USTA Foundation wanted to learn …

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Beverly Parsons on Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future and Welcome to Evaluation 2014!

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 13, 2014

Hi everyone! I’m Beverly Parsons, 2014 AEA president. I’m also executive director of InSites, a research, evaluation, and planning organization. Evaluation 2014 is finally here! I’d like to kick off this week of conference-focused AEA365 posts by highlighting the conference theme, Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future. The graphic summarizes the key message. It …

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Jayne Corso on using Riffle to Enhance your Twitter Experience

1 Comment / Uncategorized / October 11, 2014

Hello, my name is Jayne Corso and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association (AEA). As the voice behind AEA’s Twitter presence (@aeaweb), I am always looking for new ways to connect with evaluators and surface online conversations focused on evaluation. I recently came across a tool called Riffle that is instrumental …

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Rick Stoddart on Leveraging Libraries for Evaluation Success

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 26, 2014

My name is Rick Stoddart and I am Head of User & Research Services at the University of Idaho. Libraries offer evaluators many useful tools including access to community data, methodological resources for evaluation, research expertise, and even public spaces to present findings. Here are some tips to get you started: Rad Resource: Library Card …

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Ian Patrick and Anne Markiewicz on Establishing Outcomes to Impacts

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 26, 2014

Greetings from Ian Patrick and Anne Markiewicz, in Melbourne, Australia – evaluators active in evaluation design, implementation and training for a range of domestic and international clients. We’ve been reflecting on a tortured area of evaluation practice – that being expectations frequently placed on evaluators to identify the IMPACT of a program. Every evaluator breathes …

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Ricardo Wilson-Grau on Outcome Harvesting

2 Comments / Uncategorized / September 26, 2014

I am Ricardo Wilson-Grau an evaluator based in Rio de Janeiro but working internationally. Over the past 9 years, co-evaluators and I have developed the Outcome Harvesting tool while performing two dozen developmental, formative and summative evaluations. Half of these evaluations were of international social change networks. The other half of the evaluations were of …

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