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John Dearborne on Establishing Social Media Measurement Standards

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 15, 2011

I’m John Dearborne and I’ve taken to reading thought leaders in measurement in Public Relations in order to improve my evaluation practice, in particular around measuring communications. Today, I’d like to share resources related to identifying measurement standards in social media. Hot Tip – KD Paine’s PR Measurement Blog: Katie Delahaye Paine is an insightful …

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Sonny Hines on F4 and F5 Transcription Software

5 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / November 14, 2011

I am Sonny Hines. As part of a recent project, we conducted 14 focus groups and then hired a transcriptionist to transcribe the audio files. Unfortunately, part way through the transcription project, her son fell very ill and she had to hand over the remainder of the work. With only a few groups left to …

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Susan Kistler on Tips and Tools for Presentations From Ignite AEA

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / November 12, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I post each Saturday to aea365. Earlier this month, the AEA Data Visualization and Reporting TIG hosted Ignite the Night at AEA’s annual conference – a fast paced and fun series of presentations where each presenter gets five minutes and 20 …

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Mel Mark on Evaluation Pie as Sung at Evaluation 2011

5 Comments / Uncategorized / November 9, 2011

The following is shared on behalf of Mel Mark, AEA’s intrepid 2006 President, Professor at Penn State, and infamous evaluation lyricist. The song below was sung at the closing session of AEA’s annual conference this past week in Anaheim. Rad Resource:  Evaluation Pie to be sung to the tune of American Pie by Don McLean …

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Frank Meintjies on Embedding M&E Within Organisations

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / October 27, 2011

I am Frank Meintjies who has worked in the public sector (the South African government) and the private sector (Deloite Consulting) either managing and implementing programmes or undertaking organisational development. Through this period, I have simultaneously conducted numerous evaluations, including process evaluations and impact evaluations. Although taken as a whole, most of my work has …

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Susan Sloan on Future Search for Establishing Common Ground for Action Planning

4 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / October 13, 2011

Greetings AEA365 enthusiasts! My name is Susan Sloan and I’ve worked as a professional evaluator for about 20 years, first at Duerr Evaluation Resources in Northern California and for the last six years in the field of public health in the Pacific Northwest. Over the years, I’ve participated in many planning groups–some successful and some …

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Jane Powers and Christine Heib on Youth in Research

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Youth Focused Evaluation / December 21, 2011

Hi, we are Jane Powers and Christine Heib from Cornell University.  We have been collaborating with a community agency to assess the needs and numbers of homeless youth in the county.  In order to study this invisible sector of the youth population, we engaged a group of homeless youth as research partners.  They helped develop …

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