My name is Susan Kistler, and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Today, following up from vacation, I’m updating a post from February of 2010 in order to encourage you to make the most of aea365 and blog-based web content. Hot Tip – Add to and read the comments: Most, but not all, …
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Salutations aea365ers. I am David Hawkins, closet dummy. I have read Wine for Dummies so that I can order wine in a restaurant without getting fleeced. I bought Birds for Dummies when my daughter wanted a parakeet. Costa Rica for Dummies is helping me to plan an upcoming vacation. But as far as I know, …
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My name is Rena Matthews and I work in a small firm in California named ORI Consulting. I thought that I would share a few of the tricks that I don’t usually mention out loud but that have served me well in connecting with people and overcoming my own lack of memory for names and …
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As an evaluator I am often confronted by questions that I often think about while taking the Staten Island Ferry at the end of the day. My name is Stan Capela and I am the VP for Quality Management and Corporate Compliance Officer for HeartShare Human Services. I am also the current AEA Government TIG …
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My name is Lisa Chauveron. I am the Director of Research & Evaluation at The Leadership Program, an urban organization that serves 18,000 youth, 500 teachers, and 6,000 parents annually in 250 underserved New York City schools. I oversee all internal program evaluations, coordinate with outside consultants, and lead external evaluations for other organizations. We …
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My name is Ariana Weld and I am slowly but surely writing my doctoral thesis. I want to tell you about Scrivener. Rad Resource – Scrivener http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php: According to its website “Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. While it gives …
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Hi. I’m Victor Kuo, one of AEA’s Board Directors and liaison to the International Listening Project (ILP). AEA has launched the ILP to consider strategies that will guide AEA into enhanced engagement with the international communities of evaluators, evaluation organizations and clients of evaluation in the coming years. The Board sees this initiative as aligned …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I’m AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. Today, I thought that I would continue the ‘shortcuts’ theme and tell you about Netvibes. Rad Resource – Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com/en: Netvibes creates a personal internet dashboard. You set up one (or multiple) pages with links to key items …
Shortcut Week: Susan Kistler on Netvibes Read More »
I’m Stephen Tyler (no, not that Steven Tyler – I can’t even play an instrument) and I’m wrapping up shortcut week by sharing where you can find more shortcuts. Sometimes you stumble upon them. Sometimes a friend or family member shares them. But maybe you’re a shortcut addict, or you just want to check out …
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Hello aea365 friends. My name is Sharon Rodriguez and I regularly work with international colleagues from other parts of the world. One challenge that we encounter is representing diacritics in reports and presentations (and even emails – but note that the suggestions below won’t work in all email programs). You can usually get these in …
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