In the past few years I’ve been building myself up as a web-savvy researcher and evaluator.  I’ve learned a lot in the process; there are tons of problems that have simple solutions if you know where to look. But I have yet to leverage that experience into online success.

In my eyes there are two ways to be successful online.  One is to be consistently good, pumping out solid material day after day.   Another is to be occasionally exceptional.  The creme de la creme is to be both.  At best I would say I’m occasionally good.

I hope to change that this year.  My plan is to take what I’ve learned and teach it.  Take the lessons I usually only give when someone comes to me for help and turn them into tutorials.  Create online courses to build up expertise in areas often thought to be too technical.  And offer the occasional webinar to answer the kinds of questions I would not think of on my own.

Will I be successful?  We’ll answer that question next year…

Happy Holidays! AEA365 is doing a series of posts contributed by evaluators who blog. I have a post coming up on Monday, so I wanted to have a fresh post on here.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

The other day I was reading about Social Objects on Hugh MacLeod’s Gaping Void blog. I won’t go into too much detail, you can read his definition on his blog, but it made me think about why I like cartoons. I see them as conversation pieces that can take on a life of their own outside of the context of the originating blog. Infographics and video work in the same way.

I created this one for a couple of fellow evaluators, Agata and Ann, and it now has a home on their site. If anyone is interested in a similar collaboration let me know.