Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association (AEA). In the fast-paced world of social media, things are always changing. Just as soon as you stop to take a breath, Facebook has tweaked its algorithm again. Or Twitter has updated its design. Recently, there have been a …
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Hello! Sheila B. Robinson here, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. I originally composed this post in May of 2013, but feel it deserves another go as I’m feverishly queuing up some fabulous sponsored weeks for summer. Keep up with aea365 through weekly Headlines and Resources, the new and improved AEA website, and AEA newsletters. I work …
Best of aea365: Sheila B Robinson on Being an AEA365 Sponsored Weeks Archaeologist! Read More »
Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association. Twitter, and social media in general, can be quite the rabbit hole, into which minutes and hours have the odd habit of just disappearing. Luckily, there are plenty of social media tools that can help you organize, prioritize and schedule …
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Hello, I am Fred Nickols, a consultant, writer, former executive, and currently Managing Partner of Distance Consulting LLC. I fancy myself a toolmaker to knowledge workers and part of that involves eliminating unnecessary complexity. Nowhere is that more needed than in strategic planning. The topic of strategic planning is an absolute quagmire of competing and …
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Hi everyone! I’m Jordan Slice – a Research Specialist with Richland One, an urban school district in Columbia, South Carolina. Not long ago I wrote an aea365 post about how being a creator informs being an evaluator. As my original post may have made obvious, I’m a very visual person. That being said, I have …
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Hello, I am Nick Hart, Treasurer of AEA’s Washington Evaluators (WE) affiliate and a PhD student in Program Evaluation at The George Washington University. I’d like to share some thoughts on the value of local affiliates’ connections with the academic community. Situated in the Washington, D.C. area, WE has a unique opportunity to connect …
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Hello! My name is Matthew Von Hendy, I am the owner of Green Heron Information Services, which provides research and information services to evaluation professionals. I love helping connect people with the information that they need to solve problems or make decisions. Many evaluators are working in budget constrained environments which can make accessing the …
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We are Ladel Lewis and Bernadette Wright, the leadership team of Meaningful Evidence LLC and co-founders of ASK MATT and active on the Membership Committee of Washington Evaluators (WE), the AEA affiliate for the National Capitol Area. Like a great party needs guests, your organization needs members to succeed. Here are some example ways a …
Welcome! I’m Ann K. Emery, longtime fan of AEA affiliates and proud Secretary of the Washington Evaluators. WE has transformed from an informal organization into a lean, mean fighting machine. We’ve standardized our procedures for planning events and tracking members; transferred institutional knowledge from our brains into documents; and improved how we share information with …
WE Week: Ann K. Emery on Transforming your Affiliate or TIG into a Well-Oiled Machine Read More »
I am David J. Bernstein, a Senior Study Director with Westat, an employee-owned research and evaluation company. I am the President-elect of Washington Evaluators (WE), the Washington, DC/Virginia/Maryland area affiliate of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). This year marks the 30th anniversary of the WE. As WE founder Michael Hendricks has noted, affiliates help develop …
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