Hello fellow evaluators! My name is Ann Price and I am President of Community Evaluation Solutions, near Atlanta, Georgia. A few weeks ago a friend and I spent the weekend in the Georgia Mountains at the Hike Inn, a state park only accessible via a 5 mile “moderate” hike. There is no cell phone, no …
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Greetings to my fellow #DataNerds! My name is Jordan Slice. I am a Research Specialist at Richland One, an urban school district in Columbia, South Carolina. In addition to being a full-time evaluator, I create handmade pieces for my Etsy shop, resliced. As a handmade business owner, many of the sales I make are custom …
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Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager at the AEA. I’ve written much in the past about different tools and tricks that can help evaluators be more productive in using Twitter, which hopefully have proved worthwhile in helping you make smart use of your time on social media. By evaluating …
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My name is Erin Blake and I am worried about your health! Working for the Caribbean Public Health Agency has raised my awareness of the growing problems with obesity and associated diseases. The go to axiom in public health is ‘the health of the nation, is the wealth of the nation.’ Well, I think that …
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My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. In addition to my usual evaluation projects, I deliver regular webinars on evaluation topics, Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven, and co-host the monthly evaluation podcast, Adventures in Evaluation along with my colleague @JamesWCoyle. Sometime when I feel …
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Hello Evaluators! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor on yet another fabulous professional learning opportunity brought to you by the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Lesson Learned: I’m fortunate to live in a community with a university that offers a program evaluation certificate. I had a wonderful evaluation professor and am indebted …
Hello Evaluation Learners! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Today, I’m writing about a fabulous opportunity for summer. Don’t worry – there’s no need to skip the vacation, the beaches, or time with the kids. AEA’s Summer Evaluation Institute is a great opportunity to continue learning about evaluation, hone your …
Sheila B. Robinson on a Really Rad Resource for Summer Evaluation Learning Read More »
Hi, We are Sean Owen and Teresa Doksum from the Abt Associates Institutional Review Board (IRB). Sean is an information security expert and Director of Abt’s Client Cybersecurity Center. Teresa is a health services researcher and chair of the IRB. We review large-scale evaluations of government programs in the fields of health, education, social welfare, …
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Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association (AEA). With the vast amount of information going back and forth on social media channels, it can be difficult to filter and parse that data in meaningful ways. Luckily, there are dozens of third-party applications and tools that can …
Dan McDonnell on 5 Social Media Tools For Curation and Visualization Read More »
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 aea365 …
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