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Susan Kistler on the Evaluation 2011 Conference Program and Curate.us

I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and this week I’m posting about two completely separate things: On the one hand, I want to tell you about the AEA conference program and on the other hand, I’m trying out curate.us. Rad Resource – Evaluation 2011 Searchable Conference Program: This highly searchable online program is a …

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Judy Savageau and Terri Anderson on Strategies for Strategic Planning to Improve Evaluation

Our names are Judy Savageau and Terri Anderson. Judy is Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Terri is Director for Evaluation in the University of Massachusetts Medical School Commonwealth Medicine Center for Health Policy and Research. Founded in 1999, Commonwealth Medicine’s mission is to apply knowledge …

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Sharon Smith-Halstead on Storytelling in Evaluation

My name is Sharon Smith-Halstead and I would like to share tools for storytelling for evaluators. Lesson Learned: There is an art to telling stories. Whether you are narrating the story of your grandmother’s journey to America, of your child’s first words, or of the way a program succeeded or failed, there is an art …

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Roger Miranda on The Top 10 List of Things Evaluators Don’t Like to Hear

I’m Roger Miranda, an Independent Evaluator (here’s my website), and author of Eva the Evaluator, a storybook for both young and old explaining what evaluation is. This summer, I facilitated a workshop at the University of Manitoba’s Summer Institute on Program Evaluation. For it, I solicited ideas via Evaltalk, the American Evaluation Association’s public discussion …

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Susan Kistler on How to Win a Copy of Visualize This

I’m Susan Kistler, the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association and contributor of each Saturday’s post to aea365. Back on day 2 of aea365, in January of 2010, I recommended FlowingData as part of a post about favorite resources for data visualization inspiration. Rad Resource: This month, FlowingData’s curator, Nathan Yau, published Visualize This: …

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Jan Losby and Alberta Mirambeau on Tips to Remember When It Comes to Measuring Reach and Impact

Jan Losby and Alberta Mirambeau are members of the Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Team in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  In a climate of limited resources, we recognize that public health programs may not be able to evaluate every aspect of their work. We …

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Jolene VillaLobos on Vimeo and Inspiration for Data Visualization

I’m Jolene VillaLobos and I work as a part-time program director/part-time evaluator for a mid-size nonprofit. We’ve recently been exploring the use of video which has meant that I’ve been exploring tools to help in that quest. Hot Tip: Vimeo is a free video hosting service. It hosts videos, just as YouTube hosts videos, but …

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