I’ve been a bit busy this week so no time for lots of text. Here’s a set of cartoons I’ve created for other purposes. No common theme except that they relate to evaluation. Differentiating Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Dissemination Complete Expert Review Board External Evaluator Formative Feedback Loop Rubrics Useful, Relevant, Not Ugly
Why Evaluate? 5 reasons cartooned, know any others?
Why evaluate? It’s such a good question. I like it better than “what is evaluation.” It just seems more practical, less academic. So a big thanks to the those of you who suggested I take on the subject. Off the top of my head I came up with five reasons and cartooned them. What reasons […]
7 Data Visualization Cartoons, is it a fad and what is qualitative visualization?
“I have a question, is all of this just a fad?” This was asked a couple of weeks ago while I was giving a presentation on interactive data visualization and infographics. My answer, which I base on three points, is this, “no, it’s not just a fad.” The internet is visual (auditory too but that’s a different post). As your audience has grown […]
Engaging stakeholders with 7 cartoons, including 6 new ones
One of my favorite things about evaluation is that there is a need to communicate findings and evidence to a wide variety of audiences. It’s not enough to just do the evaluation. You need to make the results digestible for all sorts of people. Then you need to reach those people. This means explaining important academic concepts to […]
6 RCT related cartoons on the gold standard and just who is a randomista?
Can someone give me the source that spawned the “Randomized Controlled Trials Gold Standard?” I can’t find it, and usually I’m pretty good at finding these kinds of things. I’m not looking for support or opposition. I’m looking for the source. Can someone name a person who comfortably claims the title “Randomista?” I’ve seen […]
6 Logic Model Cartoons
I often get requests for logic model cartoons so I’ll be creating a few new ones. To hold you until that point, here is a set of six from my archives. If you’re one of my Patrons, I uploaded the set as a Power Point slide deck earlier today. Simplified Logic Model Comprehensive Logic Model Drawn to […]
Create your own cartoons
This blog has a good number of followers who are not native English speakers or who present to audiences that are not native English speakers. To date, I have only created cartoons in English. I feel bad about this, but I just haven’t had the resources to commit to translating and reproducing my cartoons. Recently […]
Reaching an audience without building an audience
Say you have something to share. Maybe it’s an evaluation report, a few case studies, or a video. But the audience you need to reach, they don’t follow you. Where do you start? I get asked this question every now and again, including this past month from one of my patrons. So I put together […]
Shane Koyczan and Engagement
Engagement happens when something draws you in and makes everything else go away, even for just an instant. I woke up early to write this morning, then spent about forty five minutes watching Shane Koyczan. Some may call that procrastination, I do not. Because if I could redo this early morning, I would have done the same thing.
The Internet is People, listen instead of analyze
WordPress doesn’t blog. Google doesn’t tell you anything. Twitter doesn’t tweet your work. LinkedIn doesn’t endorse you. Pageviews don’t comment. Facebook doesn’t like you. Your audience is a collection of people. I don’t write for evaluators. I write for Trina, Rhonda, Karen, Amanda, David, Stephanie, Ivan, Ann, Sheila, Alana, Pablo, Katherine, Sharon, Molly, Ray and […]
From bullet point to beautiful: Stephanie Evergreen on slide reboots
Sitting in the audience for Rodney Hopson’s keynote at the 2012 American Evaluation Conference in Minneapolis, one thing immediately stood out. Those were some gorgeous Power Point slides. It was a heavy topic (Evaluation in Complex Ecologies: Relationships, Responsibilities, Relevance) and my expectations for something visually appealing in a conference keynote were pretty low. But […]
More cartoons, more ebooks, and more support
You know the thing I’ve been promising for weeks (months?), I’m launching it. Two weeks ago, this was not where I was heading. My plan had only a little to do with specific cartoons or guides. Basically, the thing was going to be a stretched out and really specific workshop on developing web savvy. Then […]