Greetings to my fellow #DataNerds! My name is Jordan Slice. I am a Research Specialist at Richland One, an urban school district in Columbia, South Carolina. In addition to being a full-time evaluator, I create handmade pieces for my Etsy shop, resliced. As a handmade business owner, many of the sales I make are custom …
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Hello wonderful aea365ers. My name is Susan Kistler and I am an independent consultant and trainer. I’m also the Executive Director Emeritus of the American Evaluation Association, and originator of aea365. But enough about me, let’s talk about chocolate! Back in February, Stephanie Evergreen wrote on her blog about “findings cookies” – homemade fortune cookies with a …
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Hello evaluation world! We are Kat Athanasiades and Veena Pankaj from Innovation Network. This might sound familiar: you are given hundreds of pages of grant documents to make sense of. You are left wondering, “Where do I start?” We were recently tasked with guiding evaluation for a funder’s national advocacy campaign, and had to make …
Greetings aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, Lead Curator of my favorite evaluation blog, aea365. As I’ve written many times before, I’ve claimed the title of “aea365’s biggest fan.” Not only have I been an avid reader myself, but a frequent contributor as well. In fact, my first piece of published writing was indeed an aea365 …
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Greetings! I am Carl Brun, a social worker turned professor turned evaluator. I have taught in the social work department at Wright State University in Dayton, OH for 21 years. I teach evaluation in every research methods course I teach, whether it be in a human services course or an undergraduate or graduate social work …
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Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association. As someone who uses Twitter extensively both in a personal and professional capacity, I have found that, while powerful, the basic client is occasionally lacking in functionality. In this post, I intend to provide a brief overview of a …
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Greetings! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. If you’re a confessed evaluation nerd, perhaps one of your resolutions this year was to devote yourself to learning even more about our field. What better way to do that than to begin your quest by exploring the nooks and crannies of our …
Hi there! I’m Karen Anderson and my blog On Top Of the Box Evaluation is almost 2 ½ years old. I’ve published 65 posts over that time span with a range of topic areas. That may seem like a lot of posts and a long time, but that’s not the case in “blog years.” Most …
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I’m Cameron Norman and I am the Principal at CENSE Research + Design where I bring together systems thinking and design with evaluation to help organizations adapt and evolve in complex systems. I use my blog as a way to explore ideas and educate my students, colleagues and clients (present and future) about many of …
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Greetings! My name is Trina Willard and I am the Principal of Knowledge Advisory Group, a small consulting firm in Central Virginia that provides research and evaluation services to nonprofits, government agencies and small businesses. In addition to client work, I teach evaluation to nonprofit professionals and blog whenever I can. Rad Resource – For …
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