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Susan Kistler on Learning From and Reporting Subscriber and Pageview Data

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / September 1, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. The start of the year seemed like a good time to look reflectively at 2010 monitoring data for aea365. Lesson Learned – Compile information from multiple sources: Back in May, I wrote about monitoring blog use using Feedburner and …

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Cameron Norman on Information Technology and Evaluation

3 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / June 2, 2010

I’m Cameron Norman and I’m the Director of Evaluation at the Peter A. Silverman Global eHealth Program at the University of Toronto. Since the first time I saw the World Wide Web back in the early 1990’s, I was interested in how social tools and technologies like it could be used to help people solve …

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Susan Kistler on Monitoring Blog Use

2 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / May 7, 2010

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post. Since we started aea365 on January 1, I’ve received questions about how we monitor readership. Rad Resource: Feedburner is a free tool from Google through which you can ‘feed’ the content from your blog to track subscribers. It takes 2 minutes to set …

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Stewart Lee on Social Networking for Evaluators

2 Comments / Independent Consulting / September 1, 2011

My name is Stewart Lee and I am a graduate student at Mississippi State University, as well as an independent evaluation consultant. Lately, I’ve been working with other independent consultants as well as small business owners who feel the need for web sites/blogs/and social networking sites associated with their business. The advent of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and the like have generated a divide …

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Susan Kistler on Monitoring Information Dissemination Through Clickthroughs

3 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / September 1, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association. I contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. Hot Tip: Use a URL shortener to monitor information dissemination. A URL shortener takes a long URL (location information for a website such as “http://eval.org/”), and makes it shorter. Just …

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David Fetterman on Participation and Collaboration

18 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / September 1, 2011

My name is David Fetterman, and I am President and CEO of Fetterman & Associates (with 25 years of experience at Stanford University).  I work in many areas of evaluation including, as you may know – empowerment evaluation.  One of my primary concerns is fostering collaboration in evaluation.  I have presented a few FREE tools …

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