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Experiencing #Eval17 via Twitter by Justin Sullivan, Kate Bentley, & Libby Smith

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 26, 2017

Hello! We are Justin Sullivan, Libby Smith, and Kate Bentley from the Applied Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. When we attended Evaluation 2017, the AEA annual conference this year we knew we wanted to use the opportunity to get more active on Twitter. I (Libby) had avidly followed the conference hashtags in past …

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PFE Week: Evaluating Collaborative Principles Supporting Shared Commitment. The Global Alliance For The Future Of Food by Pablo Vidueira

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 25, 2017

Hola! My name is Pablo Vidueira. I am an evaluation researcher and consultant working with the Global Alliance for the Future of Food (GA), a collaboration of philanthropic foundations that have come together to strategically push the agenda for more sustainable food systems globally. But how can a group of more than 20 philanthropic foundations, …

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TRE TIG Week: Using Social Network Analysis to Demonstrate Research Collaborations by Jessica Wakelee

1 Comment / Social Network Analysis, Translational Research / October 14, 2017

My name is Jessica Wakelee, with the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  As evaluators for our institution’s NIH Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) and CDC Prevention Research Center (PRC), one of our team’s tasks is to find ways to understand and demonstrate capacity for collaborative research.  This is a great need among the investigators on …

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DG TIG Week: Evaluating Political Networks for Democratic Change by Linda Stern

1 Comment / Democracy, Human Rights and Governance, Social Network Analysis / March 25, 2017

My name is Linda Stern, Director of Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) at the National Democratic Institute.  One challenge to evaluating democracy assistance programs is developing comparative metrics for change in political networks overtime. The dynamism within political networks and the fluidity of the political environments make traditional cause-and-effect frameworks and indicators superficial for capturing …

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Kicking Your Cars Into VLOOKUP 4WD by Becca Sanders and Heather Robinson

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 17, 2017

Greetings Colleagues!  We are Becca Sanders (Hood River, Oregon) and Heather Robinson (Rochester, New York) of Iteration Evaluation LLC. Our forte is the “…ahhh… there is no button on your system for that” analysis requests.  We work mostly with behavioral health organizations whose current informational needs often far exceed what existing systems can pull off. …

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Giving Power to Paperless Solutions by Elaine Donato, Maria Jimenez and Samantha Moreno

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / February 17, 2017

Hello! We are Elaine Donato, Maria Jimenez (Internal Evaluators), and Samantha Moreno (Research Assistant) from the Evaluation Department at Volunteers of America Greater Los Angeles (VOALA), a large non-profit organization with over 70 human services programs, whose mission is to enrich the lives of those in need.  We have pursued the recent eco-conscious trend to …

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Internal Eval Week: Making data meaningful to non-data people by Ana Flores and Joshua Paul

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / February 3, 2017

We are Ana Flores and Joshua Paul at Volunteers of America – Los Angeles. At the AEA Evaluation 2016 conference, we presented a panel entitled “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words…But Will They Use It?”. Today, we want to provide additional information regarding how to make data more user-friendly. The Evaluation Department at Volunteers …

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Jayne Corso on What to Expect in Social Media for 2017

Leave a Comment / Social Media Tools & Updates, Uncategorized / December 16, 2016

Hi my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for AEA. As we reach the end of 2016, I wanted to provide some insights on what is predicted for social media platforms for 2017. I put together this list based on numerous industry blogs and my own insights. Let’s see what happens in …

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Kayla Brooks on Why and How You Should Be Using Social Network Analysis

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / July 5, 2016

My name is Kayla Brooks and I am the Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator at One Earth Future Foundation. One of my primary responsibilities involves measuring the level of collaboration within the networks of our implementation projects. In this post, I discuss how to use social network analysis to measure collaboration and network effectiveness and provide …

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