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Sheila B. Robinson on a Fabulous Way to Start Your Summer: AEA’s Summer Evaluation Institute

Hello Evaluation Learners! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor, coming to you from Rochester, NY where we’re enjoying our first warm weekend in ages and I’m thinking summer! In March I wrote about a great opportunity for summer – the 2014 AEA Summer Evaluation Institute – and gave a preview of some of the high quality …

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Dan McDonnell on Setting Up Your New Twitter Profile Page

Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association. My last couple of posts have been focused around evaluating Tweets and sharing useful Twitter tools for evaluators. In my last post, we previewed what some upcoming changes to Twitter would open up in the way of features and design. Now that these …

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DE Week: Randi Ilyse Roth on Evaluation Flash Cards

Greetings to the aea365 community.  I am Randi Ilyse Roth, Executive Director of Philanthropy for the Otto Bremer Foundation, based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with the mission of assisting people in achieving full economic, civic and social participation in and for the betterment of their communities in places where there are Bremer Banks. Not long …

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DE Week: Nora F. Murphy on What’s Different in Developmental Evaluation?

Hi, I’m Nora F. Murphy, co-founder of TerraLuna Collaborative, an evaluation cooperative in Minneapolis, MN with some thoughts about practicing Developmental Evaluation. Like many, I eagerly read Michael Quinn Patton’s Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use from cover to cover. The approach excited me because naturally taps into my chosen profession …

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DE Week: Kate McKegg and Nan Wehipeihana on Talking to Clients and Communities about Developmental Evaluation

I’m Kate McKegg, Director of The Knowledge Institute Ltd a member of the Kinnect Group with Nan Wehipeihana. We want to share what we have learned about explaining developmental evaluation (DE). Evaluation isn’t something that our clients or our communities fully understand and it can create anxiety.  So, when we suggest that a client or …

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DE Week: Homeless Youth Collaborative on Developmental Evaluation

Greetings to the aea365 community.  We are Heather Huseby, Deborah Loon, Major Arnel Ruppel, Matt Lasure, Denise Smieja, and Andrea Simonett representing six agencies in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, serving homeless youth. Rad Resource: Through an 18-month developmental evaluation process our six quite distinct agencies collaborated to develop and evaluate nine guiding principles to …

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DE Week: Wade Fauth and Allison Ahcan on the Mountain of Accountability

Greetings to the aea365 community.  We are with the Blandin Foundation based in Grand Rapids, Minnesota with the mission of strengthening rural Minnesota communities, especially the Grand Rapids area. We are Wade Fauth, Vice President, and Allison Ahcan, Director of Communications. Since 2007, Blandin Foundation has committed itself to building an organization-wide assessment system that contributes …

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DE Week: Michael Quinn Patton on Developmental Evaluation

I am Michael Quinn Patton, author of Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use. I am an independent consultant based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.  I have been doing and writing about evaluation for over 40 years.  This week features posts by colleagues and clients engaged in various developmental evaluation initiatives.  Rad Resource:Developmental …

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Sheila B. Robinson on the Top 10 aea365 Posts of 2013!

Hello! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with the Top 10 aea365 posts of 2013! Enough time has passed that we can now take a look at the top 10 most-read non-staff aea365 posts from 2013 according to our feedburner statistics. Lesson Learned: Here’s what people were reading in 2013: Marc …

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