My name is Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and contributor of each Saturday’s aea365 post. Last June, I wrote about Funding Opportunities for Evaluators. Today, I want to expand a bit in that arena. Over the past six months, we’ve been working to improve our listening and identifying processes, to find evaluation Requests for Proposals …
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My name is Mario Lurig, and I am the Technical Training Manager at SurveyGizmo, leading documentation, webinars, and other methods for educating evaluators on using our online survey tool. Regardless of how you collect evaluation data, the data collected requires protection and careful handling to ensure that the results from your respondents are kept in …
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My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and contributor of each Saturday’s post to aea365. The recent weeks have been full of opportunities for leveraging virtual relationships and digital assets to strengthen our community of practice. Hot Tip – Help others to make the leap between the real you and the …
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My name is Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I just returned home this week from Evaluation 2010 in San Antonio. For those who could not be there (and those who could!), I wanted to share this week just a few of the new resources in AEA’s Public eLibrary related to conference sessions. Hot Tip: …
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My name is Susan Kistler, I am AEA’s Executive Director, and by the time you read this I will be en route to San Antonio for Evaluation 2010! Hot Tip: Keep an eye on AEA’s online eLibrary. It will expand considerably over the next 30 days or so as conference speakers upload materials, handouts, and …
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My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. In one week from today, I leave for lovely San Antonio and the excitement of Evaluation 2010. If you are one of the over 2500 attendees who will be joining us for a week of learning, networking, and collaboration, today’s post …
Susan Kistler on Last Minute Planning for Evaluation 2010 Read More »
My name is Susan Kistler. I am AEA’s Executive Director and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. I sent the final version of the Evaluation 2010 hardcopy conference program off to the printers. After days of typing, proofing, paginating, and picking nits, I want to say a big ‘thank you’ to all of the …
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My name is Susan Kistler and I contribute each Saturday’s AEA365 post. This week, I want to encourage you to say thank you. Hot Tip: About a year ago, I began starting each workday by writing five quick “Thank you” emails. Now I don’t manage to do this every single day. Some days I do …
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Hi, I’m Allison L. Titcomb from ALTA Consulting, LLC. Have you ever looked for a way to engage a group in seeing and interacting with a collection of ideas, set of questions, summary of information, or data/results? Consider using a “Gallery Walk” activity to get your participants up and moving! Hot Tip: A Gallery Walk …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am AEA’s Executive Director and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. This week, I asked the participants on AEA’s LinkedIn Group what recommendations they had for first time conference attendees to Evaluation 2010 this November in San Antonio. Before I get to their answers, two things: If you aren’t …
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