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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Hi! My name is Laura Sefton, Research Coordinator at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. My colleagues and I use Atlas.ti qualitative data analysis software to facilitate our program evaluation work. Atlas is one of several software packages available to evaluators. The Center chose to purchase Atlas (1) to …
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I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I am writing today as we wind down Evaluation 2012. Today, I wanted to let the attendees speak a bit for themselves, sharing via Twitter a bit of the buzz around the conference. Hot Tip: Storify is a free tool that allows you to …
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I’m Sheila Robinson Kohn from Greece Central School District and the University of Rochester, both in Rochester, NY. I’m here in Minneapolis at AEA2012 and while most of my mornings are ignited with oatmeal and coffee, THIS morning I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at my first Ignite session. Chris Lysy, our session …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and today I am writing from the AEA annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Get Involved: The Presidential Strand kicked off with a great panel on the future of evaluation. You can get involved by posting your own prediction for evaluation’s future on …
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I’m Stephanie Evergreen and, among other things, I lead the Potent Presentations Initiative (p2i), which is a program sponsored by AEA to help you make awesome presentations. Naturally, my sweet spot is the annual conference. You have probably noticed, in the last few months, we’ve been sending you all sorts of advice about how to make your …
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Hello! I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, writing to you live from Evaluation 2012 in Minneapolis. Conference week brings a flurry of additions to the AEA public eLibrary. We want to make it a little easier to know about new contributions. Rad Resource: The AEA Public eLibrary has over 1000 materials, shared peer-to-peer from …
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I’m Reid Zimmerman, a thirty-year veteran of the nonprofit sector in Minnesota and a member of the faculty at Hamline and Capella Universities where I teach intro to research and evaluation courses in graduate nonprofit programs. Even though my PhD is in Organizational Development and Effectiveness, I am often called, as a Certified Fund Raising …
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Vidhya Shanker here and I serve on the Local Arrangements Committee. Minnesota’s Scandinavian history is common knowledge, but our state is also home to the largest urban indigenous population in the country. Beyond a rich African American history, we also have the country’s largest Hmong and Somali populations and a growing Latin@ population. The Committee …
