AaEA Affiliate Week: Ayana Perkins on the Development of an Opportunity Role Structure in the Local Affiliate

Hi, my name is Ayana Perkins, the programming Co-Chair of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association as well as Senior Research Analyst and Evaluator at Infinite Services and Solutions. Lesson Learned: When evaluating organizations for empowerment one of the characteristics to explore is whether the agency is set up to be an opportunity role structure. Organizations structured …

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AaEA Affiliate Week: Ayana Perkins on Setting Yourself Up For Success in Qualitative Data Collection

Hi, my name is Ayana Perkins, the programming Co-Chair of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association as well as Senior Research Analyst and Evaluator at Infinite Services and Solutions. I am a qualitative enthusiast and often train other evaluators and researchers in these methods. What I have noticed is that participants are more likely to right to …

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AaEA Affiliate Week: Lindsey Stillman on Creating a System of Care for Vulnerable Populations

Hello, my name is Lindsey Stillman and I work at Cloudburst Consulting Group, a small business that provides technical assistance and support for a number of different Federal Agencies. My background is in Clinical-Community Psychology and so providing technical assistance around evaluation and planning is my ideal job! Currently I am working with several communities …

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AaEA Affiliate Week: Maureen Wilce and Sarah Gill on Using the Evaluation Questions Checklist to Improve Practice

Hi, I’m Maureen Wilce, a founding member of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association, and I’m Sarah Gill, president elect of AaEA. We’re both “true believers” in the power of evaluation to guide organizational learning. We’ve seen how good evaluation questions can help uncover important information to improve programs. We’ve also seen the opposite: how bad evaluation …

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AaEA Affiliate Week: Travis Tatum on an Introduction to the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association Local Affiliate

Hi, my name is Travis Tatum and I currently work as an independent evaluator through my company Creative Research Solutions, LLC.  As President of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association it is my pleasure to welcome you to our affiliate’s AEA365 week! This week, our members will be contributing AEA365 posts with advice, best practices, and new tools …

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Jayne Corso on Evaluation 2014 (#Eval14) Twitter Highlights

Hello, my name is Jayne Corso. I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and I manage AEA’s social media presence (@aeaweb). This past week at Evaluation 2014, our event hashtag (#eval14) took on a life of its own and racked up a total of 5,601 tweets thanks to your postings, retweets, …

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Sheila B Robinson on #Eval14 – Visionary Evaluation and the Big Blue Bear

Hi, I’m Sheila Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with reflections from Denver as we wrap up Evaluation 2014. I’ve enjoyed five AEA conferences now, each one as exciting a learning and community-building opportunity as the last. I spent time thinking deeply about our conference theme and discovering the connections among the various …

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Leigh M. Tolley on Taking a Chance and Getting Involved at Evaluation 2014

Hello everyone! My name is Leigh M. Tolley, and I am an advanced doctoral student in the department of Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation at Syracuse University, and a Research Assistant at Hezel Associates, LLC in Syracuse, NY. I realized on the way to Denver that this is my fifth AEA conference! Lesson Learned: I …

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Jayne Corso on Early Perspectives from #eval14

Hi! I’m Jayne Corso, Community Manager for AEA with some early perspectives from Day 1 of Evaluation 2014. The twittersphere lit up this afternoon as Beverly Parsons, our current AEA president gave her plenary talk, Visionary Evaluation for  Sustainable, Equitable Future. Evaluators were especially impressed with young Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez of Earth Guardians. Thanks @X4Earth @earthguardianz for an …

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Dan McDonnell on Using Twitter to Enhance Your Conference Experience

My name is Dan McDonnell and I am the Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association. Ever wanted to be a professional conference insider? Social media offers a fascinating way to add an extra level of experience to any conference you attend, and provides you extra content, as well as the means to discover fellow …

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