Greetings, evaluation friends! Elizabeth Grim here. Founder of Elizabeth Grim Consulting and Curator of AEA365.
It’s conference season! This week, some readers may be traveling to New Orleans to gather with our fellow evaluators at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference, while others might be in Boston for the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference.
Hello! This is AEA365 curator, Elizabeth Grim, writing to you during the week of Evaluation 2022: (Re)shaping Evaluation Together (#Eval22). As I think about reshaping and reimagining evaluation, I believe it is important to understand the history of the spaces and places we are working. Eval22 is being held in New Orleans, which has Indigenous, …
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Greetings, evaluation friends! Elizabeth Grim here. Founder of Elizabeth Grim Consulting and Curator of AEA365. It’s conference season! This week, some readers may be traveling to New Orleans to gather with our fellow evaluators at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference, while others might be in Boston for the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference. …
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Hi AEA! My name is Elizabeth DiLuzio, volunteer curator for AEA365, internal evaluator at Good Shepherd Services, and instructor of Quantitative Methods in Evaluation at New York University. Whether AEA’s is the first or one hundredth conference you’ve attended, turning the people you meet into colleagues and friends can be a challenge. Here are some tips …
Tips on Following Up After a (Virtual) Conference by Elizabeth DiLuzio Read More »
Hi, I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant and AEA365 frequent contributor, sharing another nugget about my adventures of being an evaluator. Deadlines for presenting proposals for two major evaluation conferences this year –AEA’s Evaluation 2020 and the European Evaluation Society (EES) 2020 Conference — approach, and as every year by this time, I’m in a sea …
Evaluation Conferences: To Go or Not To Go, That Is The Question by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hey! I’m Sara Vaca, independent evaluator and part of the AEA365 team. I’m not in Cleveland (sad face) this week (as I just came back for the European Evaluation Conference (EES) in Greece), but I wish I was, as I love evaluation conferences. I am not an expert compared to so many admired evaluators who …
Things NOT To Do! (;-P) At The AEA Conference by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi, my name Jessica Byrnes and I’m a member of the AEA marketing team. One of the greatest values of attending conferences like Evaluation 2018 is the people you meet and the networks you develop. It can sometimes be difficult to put yourself out there and meet new people, especially at a larger event. That’s …
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Hi I am Kelly Laurie and I am the Event Services Manager for AEA. Evaluation 2018 is upon us! Our registration launch is right around the corner and the AEA team is anxious to go LIVE! Don’t let our July registration opening time frame fool you – conference planning starts months and months in advance …
AEA Events Manager Shares her Excitement for Evaluation 2018 by Kelly Laurie Read More »
Hi my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for AEA. Twitter is a great tool for staying social at conferences. It provides real-time opportunities for sharing content and insights. Here are a few tips to help you be social during your upcoming conferences! You can even use these at Evaluation 2016. …
Jayne Corso on the Best Ways to Use Twitter at a Conference Read More »
Greetings from Jean King and Laura Pejsa from the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) at the University of Minnesota. This week we will be introducing you to a crop of graduate student evaluators who (we think) made quite a splash at the AEA conference last month. If you attended, you may have seen one or …
