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FIE/MME Week: Donna Podems on Applying Feminist Evaluation for Non-feminist Evaluators

Hello, I am Donna Podems, founder and director of OtherWISE: Research and Evaluation, a small monitoring and evaluation firm in Cape Town, South Africa. We work with a wide range of international and local donors who fund a wide variety of technical interventions in areas such as environment, education, health, community development and human rights. …

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FIE/MME Week: Donna Mertens and Mika Yamashita on Co-hosting Mixed Methods Evaluation and Feminist Issues in Evaluation

Hello! We are Donna Mertens and Mika Yamashita, Chair and Program Chair of Mixed Methods Evaluation TIG. This week, we offer five posts written by Feminist Issues in Evaluation TIG members. Why is the Mixed Methods TIG co-hosting this week with the Feminist Issues in Evaluation TIG? Because this week’s posts touch upon issues associated …

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Susan Kistler on Two Terrific Evaluation Podcasts

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Independent Consulting, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / September 15, 2012 September 15, 2012

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 regular Saturday contributor. I’ve written before about podcasts of interest to evaluators, but they were from peripheral fields. Today, I’m excited to see evaluators entering the fray. Hot Tip – Podcasts are for everyone: The word ‘podcast’ is associated …

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Carlen Erickson on R Tutorials and Learning Resources

1 Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / September 14, 2012 September 14, 2012

Hello aea365. My name is Carlen Erickson and I am a student learning the statistics program R! I want to share two resources I have found invaluable. Rad Resource: R is a free statistical software package for conducting analyses of quantitative data. It is a free competitor to SAS or SPSS. R can be downloaded …

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Susan Kistler on Registering for the AEA Annual Conference

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 13, 2012 September 13, 2012

My name is Susan Kistler, aea365’s usual Saturday contributor and guest weekday post provider this week. Today, I’m keeping it short and sweet with three tips about the upcoming AEA conference. Hot Tip – Register Now: If you are attending the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference next month in Minneapolis, and have not yet done …

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Susan Kistler on Wallwisher, Your Free Online Bulletin Board

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / September 12, 2012 September 12, 2012

My name is Susan Kistler, aea365’s usual Saturday contributor and guest weekday post provider this week on new tech tools. Have you ever found something that was just really cool but you aren’t quite sure how to make the most of it? Rad Resource – Wallwisher: Wallwisher allows you to create a free online virtual …

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

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / September 11, 2012 January 16, 2016

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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Naomi Walsh on A Free Journal for Those Who Love Data (and who doesn’t?)

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / September 10, 2012 September 10, 2012

My name is Naomi Walsh. I am an independent consultant working primarily with nonprofits. Today, I want to share information about a favorite, free, online journal. Rad Resource: NTEN is the Nonprofit Technology Network. Their annual membership is only $85 per year, about like AEA’s, and if you work with nonprofits at all – even …

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Laura Pryor on Using Photovoice to Support a Culturally Responsive Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / September 9, 2012 September 9, 2012

My name is Laura Pryor, and I am a recent alumna of The American Evaluation Association’s Graduate Education Diversity Initiative (GEDI) program. My experience in the GEDI program largely focused on culturally responsive evaluation. As a result, my current work considers and prioritizes several methods to apply culturally responsive practices. Most recently, I incorporated the …

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

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / September 8, 2012 September 9, 2012

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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