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MNEA Week: Traci Capesius and Melissa Chapman Haynes on Lessons Learned from AEA’s Annual meeting

Greeting from Minneapolis, Minnesota! This is Melissa Chapman Haynes and Traci Capesius. We are program evaluators at Professional Data Analysts, Inc., where we specialize in the evaluation of public health programs, particularly tobacco control and obesity. A big highlight from AEA’s 2012 meeting was diving into the unknown by facilitating a brown bag exchange titled, …

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MNEA Week: Angie Ficek on Learning about Potent Presentations

Hi! My name is Angie Ficek and I am a program evaluator at Professional Data Analysts, Inc., a small firm in Minneapolis, MN specializing in public health evaluation. At least year’s AEA conference I had the great pleasure of attending Stephanie Evergreen’s session on presentation message, sponsored by AEA’s Potent Presentations Initiative (p2i). The session …

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MNEA Week: Leah Goldstein Moses on How Our Team Evaluated the Value of the AEA Conference

My name is Leah Goldstein Moses, founder and CEO of the Improve Group. As a lifelong learner and cheerleader for evaluation, I was completely geeked out when I learned that the 2012 AEA conference was going to be right in my city. And as the leader of a growing team of evaluators, I knew I …

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Sheila B. Robinson on Joining the aea365 Author Community

Greetings aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, Lead Curator of my favorite evaluation blog, aea365. As I’ve written many times before, I’ve claimed the title of “aea365’s biggest fan.” Not only have I been an avid reader myself, but a frequent contributor as well. In fact, my first piece of published writing was indeed an …

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LAWG Week: David J. Bernstein and Valerie Caracelli on the Local Arrangements Activities for Evaluation 2013

We are David J. Bernstein, Senior Study Director with Westat, an employee-owned research and evaluation company and Valerie Caracelli, Senior Social Science Analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). We are honored to be the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) Co-Chairs for the upcoming 2013 AEA Conference. The LAWG is a group of 74 …

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LAWG Week: Herb Baum on the Upcoming AEA Meeting

I am Herb Baum, Senior Director of Program Evaluation at the Data Recognition Corporation in the Washington DC office and looking forward to welcoming you here in October.  For the past decade I have attended the AEA conference, attended some of the workshops and presented at many of them. Here is my advice to both …

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Susan Kistler on the AEA Thought Leaders Forum

Happy Saturday aea365 readers! My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director Emeritus at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and a regular contributor to aea365. We try not to write very often about programs that are for AEA members-only but today I hoped to tell you about one that might entice some …

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Vardhani Ratnala on Managing Conflict Following Negative Evaluation Findings

I am Vardhani Ratnala and work as a freelance consultant in Monitoring and Evaluation.  In this post, I would like share my experience of presenting evaluation findings. Following an evaluation field visit, the findings are shared with the project management/implementing team. Quite often, when the findings are negative, it ruffles egos and leads to a …

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Carla Hillerns on Thoughtful Tokens of Appreciation to Encourage Study Participation

Hello, fellow aea365ers! My name is Carla Hillerns and I manage research projects in the Center for Health Policy & Research’s Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Evaluation pumps me up because it offers the opportunity to discover ways to improve processes and results. To get there, my work relies …

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Kylie Hutchinson on Befuddled by Evaluation Terminology?

My name is Kylie Hutchinson.  I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation (www.communitysolutions.ca).  I give regular webinars and workshops on evaluation topics for both the AEA and CES and Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven. The field of evaluation is rife with inconsistent yet overlapping terminology that stems from different …

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