My name is Phil Levine and I’m a full-time statistician in search of things that make me laugh, because a lot of my work just isn’t funny and there is research that shows that laughing will make me live longer. The Genuine Evaluation Blog (always a good read) regularly posts “The Friday Funny” (always a …
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If it is Saturday, it must be Susan. I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. Today’s post is a call to action. Hot Tip – aea365 is seeking contributors: Yes! We’re looking for aea365 authors to fill the new year with great content spanning the …
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I’m John VanDyke and this post is about work/life balance. It applies to everyone, but to evaluators in particular because we are an inquisitive lot – always seeking out how to do things better, more effectively, more efficiently, with improved outcomes and fewer inputs. This post applies to those who turn that same inquisitive outlook …
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My name is Jennifer Greene and I am pleased to be serving as the President of the American Evaluation Association for 2011. Lesson Learned: It takes many volunteers to put on our annual conference – over 800 altogether in various roles. On this day of Thanksgiving, I want to give thanks to all of those …
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I’m Farah Smith-Bron and I’m learning more about the American Evaluation Association’s Topical Interest Groups. Did you know that AEA has over 40 Topical Interest Groups (TIGs)? These are subgroups of the association (each AEA member can join up to five) that create smaller communities within the larger association. Lesson Learned: TIG stands for Topical …
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I am Felix Landry and I work as an independent consultant in North Dakota. I don’t have a large academic library available to me and must rely primarily on online options for my professional reading. AEA members have online access to four journals as part of our membership: The American Journal of Evaluation, New Directions …
My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. At AEA’s annual conference in Anaheim earlier this month LaMarcus Bolton and I gave a demonstration of low-cost/no-cost tools for evaluators. We shared great tools that we’ve used, ones recommended by colleagues via aea365, and …
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Did you know that there are over 150 new items in the AEA Public eLibrary from the Evaluation 2011 conference held earlier this month in Anaheim with more being added daily? And, did you know that they are all available to the public for free download? Here are just a few of the recent additions …
I’m John Dearborne and I’ve taken to reading thought leaders in measurement in Public Relations in order to improve my evaluation practice, in particular around measuring communications. Today, I’d like to share resources related to identifying measurement standards in social media. Hot Tip – KD Paine’s PR Measurement Blog: Katie Delahaye Paine is an insightful …
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I’m Shawn Devers, a statistics grad student and Hans Rosling groupie. Hans Rosling is a Swedish researcher who has been mentioned on aea365 a number of times before Rad Resource – The Joy of Stats Video: Working with the BBC, Rosling produced a one-hour documentary about the joy of stats. The best part is he …
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