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Jennifer Greene on Saying Thank You This Thanksgiving

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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Farah Smith-Bron on AEA’s Topical Interest Groups

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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Felix Landry on Four Fantastic Open-Access Online Journals for Evaluators and Researchers

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 …

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Susan Kistler on 40+ Low-cost/No-cost Tools for Evaluators

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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Evaluation 2011 Delegates on Conference Handouts and Materials in the AEA Public eLibrary

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 …

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John Dearborne on Establishing Social Media Measurement Standards

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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Mel Mark on Evaluation Pie as Sung at Evaluation 2011

The following is shared on behalf of Mel Mark, AEA’s intrepid 2006 President, Professor at Penn State, and infamous evaluation lyricist. The song below was sung at the closing session of AEA’s annual conference this past week in Anaheim. Rad Resource:  Evaluation Pie to be sung to the tune of American Pie by Don McLean …

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