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Nicole Vicinanza on Connecting to AEA and a Chance to Win a Prize from SAGE

I’m Nicole Vicinanza, a Senior Research Associate at JBS International, and a member of the AEA Board.  As part of our work on the board, we seek input from AEA members and other stakeholders so that we can establish policies that help AEA as an association better succeed in our mission, attain our vision and …

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Sheila B. Robinson on Theory of Change vs Logic Model – A LinkedIn Discussion

I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. You’ve probably read about AEA’s LinkedIn page for fabulous free discussion about anything evaluation. Today, I want to highlight one particular discussion that has sparked a good deal of participation from a diverse group of evaluators. Terminology has always been a sticky point for …

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Dan McDonnell on Twitter Etiquette and Data Archiving

My name is Dan McDonnell, and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association.

If you couldn’t already tell, I am a huge fan of Twitter, both personally and professionally. Whether I’m analyzing the latest set of #eval tweets, seeking new craft beer releases, or making connections with new people who share my similar interests, I am logged into Twitter 365 days a year. I am constantly learning new, interesting ways to get great data out of Twitter, and to better engage with my fellow Tweeters. In this post, I’ll outline five short tips you can add to your bag of Twitter tricks, and help you on your road towards becoming a Twitter Power User.

Sheila B Robinson on Checking out Literature in AEA’s Public eLibrary

Hi! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Today, I want to remind you about a fabulous resource for evaluation-related content – the AEA Public eLibrary. I’ve always been impressed with this organization’s generous offering of evaluation resources to members and non-members alike, and the Public eLibrary is one of my …

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Cultural Competence Week: Rupu Gupta, Dominica McBride and Leah C. Neubauer on Critical Self-Reflection and Cultural Competence: From Theory to Practice

Hello, we are Rupu Gupta, Dominica McBride and Leah C. Neubauer, members of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence Dissemination Working Group. At AEA 2013, we participated in the Birds of a Feather session Critical Self-Reflection and Cultural Competence: From Theory to Practice with five others to learn from each other’s experiences in evaluation settings. We’d like to share some …

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Kim Firth Leonard on How I use Twitter as a Professional Development Resource

Hi! My name is Kim Firth Leonard (@KimFLeonard). I have been working in program evaluation and/or higher education assessment for about as long as Twitter has been around, but only joined the fray about a year ago. I believe Twitter can be a rich professional development resource – this post is meant to help fellow …

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Sheila B. Robinson on #eval13 – Learning from Post-Conference Reflections

Hi! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and once monthly Saturday contributor. With Evaluation 2013 a mere one week in the past, evaluation bloggers are all over it recounting, recapturing, reliving, and reflecting on conference courses and confabulations. Whether you made it to Washington, DC to experience the conference live, or watched your #eval13 …

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Evaluation 2013 Conference Week: Conference Twitter Users on #Eval13

Storify by sjkistler Sat, Oct 19 2013 01:59:07 Evaluation 2013 Conference Week: Conference Twitter Users on #Eval13 Once again, we’re using Storify to share the Valuable Voices, Lessons Learned, and Rad Resources from our colleagues at this years AEA’s annual conference. Add to story or collection Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ …

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Evaluation 2013 Conference Week: Chris Lysy on Cartooning the Conference

Hello, I’m Chris Lysy, I am an analyst at Westat, a blog developer (evalcentral.com), a published NDE author, and a tweeter (@clysy).  Of course, most people know me here as the cartoon guy (freshspectrum.com). Lessons Learned: If you draw enough cartoons, sooner or later people are going to call you the cartoon guy.  This label will …

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