Hi there, Liz Zadnik here, bringing you another Saturday post focused on practitioner experiences and approaches. Today I’m going to focus on a recent (and recurring) experience of getting others excited about evaluation and capturing information. It is a source of pride that many of my colleagues have said, “Liz, you bring such an enthusiasm …
Hi there, Liz Zadnik here, new(ish) member of the aea365 curating team and sometimes Saturday poster. Last year Sheila posed the question What is it that YOU would like to read about on this blog? One of the responses resonated with me, as it represented my relationship with evaluation as a professional: I would love to …
Hi all! Liz Zadnik here, aea365 Outreach Coordinator and occasional Saturday Contributor. I wanted to share some insights and reflection I had as the result from a recent EVALTALK discussion thread. Last month, someone posed the following request: I’m searching for a “Why Evaluate” article for parents/community members/stakeholders. An article that explains in clear and plain …
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Hello! I am Liz Zadnik, Capacity Building Specialist at the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault. I’m also a new member of the aea365 curating team and first-time Saturday contributor! Over the past five years I have been working within the anti-sexual violence movement at both the state and national levels to share my enthusiasm …
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Hello everyone! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. A few weeks back I was excited that we were approaching 4000 articles on AEA365. Well, we reached that milestone in the first week of March 2021. I’ve always wanted to get a sense of how many people have contributed to this blog, …
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Hello Everyone! I’m Sheila B Robinson, AEA365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with some pointers on adding photos, icons, graphics or other visuals to your blog article. It’s important to abide by the rules when we’re publishing original content here or on our own blogs and websites. Want to submit a draft article to …
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I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. I love evaluation work and evaluators! I wanted to write about evaluation and love, so I decided to revisit what I wrote around this time a couple of years ago. I figured an easy to find the post would be typing “love” into the …
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Hello there! Liz Zadnik here – I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with a few of the authors at this year’s poster presentation and reception. I asked some to share their experiences with poster creation, and will also add some of the innovative strategies I noticed folks using. What would you tell a colleague …
I’m Maya Pilgrim, the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault’s Evaluation Manager. My work has focused on the primary prevention of sexual violence – addressing the root causes to prevent sexual violence from happening in the first place. It means addressing systemic attitudes and inequities that while often similar, can look different according to context, a …
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Hi everyone, I am Jyoti Venketraman, Director Special Initiatives at the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault. I was hesitant to initially blog as I don’t consider myself an expert. But my awesome colleague Liz Zadnik , aea365 Outreach Coordinator and a recent blog post by Shiela B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator made me realize …
