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Susan Kistler on Fiverr and Free Coffee Break Webinars and an Amazing Cup of Cappuccino

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Last week, I wrote about 25 low-cost/no-cost tech tools for Data Visualization and Reporting. Here’s a bit more about one of them. Rad Resource – Fiverr: On fiverr, people list things that they will do for $5. Lots of it …

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Ann Emery on 10 Things You Didn’t Learn in School

Greetings, I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. I also tweet and blog about evaluation. If you recently completed your graduate or undergraduate degree, congratulations! You’ve already learned some of the key elements of evaluation. However, evaluation involves more than theory, methods, and statistical formulas. Hot Tips: Here are 10 things you probably …

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Susan Kistler on the Amazing Multicolor Search Engine (you gotta try this!)

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and usual aea365 Saturday contributor. But, you say, “it isn’t Saturday Susan, what are you doing here?” “Well,” says I, “there was a last minute cancellation so I’m stepping in to share a surprisingly addictive tool to help as you are on the hunt for pictures …

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Susan Kistler on Four Free Coffee Break Demonstration Recordings on International Monitoring and Evaluation

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365 regular Saturday contributor. Earlier this year, I announced that AEA would be hosting a public series of our normally members-only coffee break webinars. The four video series, held in July, focused on different aspects of International Monitoring and Evaluation. First, thanks to everyone who …

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Susan Kistler on Whether to Prezi or not to Prezi

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. Today I want to talk about one of the hot debates in presentation delivery: To Prezi or not to Prezi, that is the question. For the uninitiated, Prezi is a presentation tool that is a possible replacement for PowerPoint. It allows the …

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Susan Kistler on New Session Formats for Evaluation 2012

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 ongoing Saturday contributor. This has been a great week, highlighting posts from AEA’s Data Visualization and Reporting Topical Interest Group. The DVR TIG’s willingness to lead the way in exploring reporting alternatives has lead to a change in the …

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Robin Kipke on Resources for Evaluating Social Media

Greetings! I’m Robin Kipke and I work for the Center for Evaluation and Research at the University of California, Davis, which provides evaluation training and technical assistance to the 100+ projects which advocate for tobacco control policies in our state. To help these organizations discern how to effectively harness the power of social media, I’m …

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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 Nash on the Ignite Event and Slide Clinic at the AEA Conference

I’m John Nash and I’m the program co-chair, with Stuart Henderson, for the American Evaluation Association’s new Topical Interest Group, Data Visualization and Reporting (DVR TIG). I’m here to tell you about some innovative events taking place in Anaheim during the 2011 AEA Conference. Hot Tip: Ignite Yourself at the Conference You don’t need matches …

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DVR Week: Amy Germuth on Using Visual Design Principles

……When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st, ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’ – John Keats ‘Ode to a Grecian Urn’ Hi, I am Amy Germuth, …

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