I worked for about 4 years at Kmart, which included a couple of Black Friday shifts. It always amazed me that no matter how underwhelming our sale items were, or cheap our giveaways, there would always be a line in front of our store bright and early…
Toon: Thanksgiving Day Medication Floats
We see drug ads everywhere else in the US, why not here too?
Thanksgiving Origin
Happy Thanksgiving
Generational Divide
I don’t think there is a huge divide between the people who know tech and the people who don’t. The bigger divide is between the people who are willing to just use the tech and the people who are not.
Dissemination Strategy
Question to ask yourself when putting a report, or anything else, on your website. Do you want people to read the thing or are you just making it available? If you want people to read it, do more than just add it to your site…
Web 3.0 and Angry Birds
What do you get when I’m swamped at work? Random cartoons like this one…
Why academics should blog
I decree, the weekends shall be all about cartoons. It’s amazing how much my new iPad has boosted my cartooning ability. Apparently I just needed to reduce the number of steps needed to go from cartoon to publishable image.
You know you’re at an Eval conference when…
True story, the identity of the person will not be revealed…
Kylie Hutchinson (@EvaluationMaven) with 23 tips for a better conference presentation #eval11
This is Fresh Spectrum’s first guest post. A big thank you to Kylie for accepting my invitation 🙂 My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I frequently teach workshops for both the AEA and CES and try to Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven. […]
Lessons Learned at #eval11 Visual Data and Stakeholder Engagement
I have always been comfortable working with numbers. Mix that with my eagerness to learn new software packages and develop some level of programming experience and you will find someone whose career has led him down a mostly quantitative path. Methods though, should not be dictated by experience and comfort but rather the questions you […]
Lessons Learned at #eval11 Automated Reports in Word
Some of the best conference sessions are really just the most practical. Ann Emery and Agata Jose-Ivanina’s session on using macros to create multiple word reports from excel data was just that. At this very moment there is likely some evaluator out there typing Excel data into Word report shells, over and over and over […]
Lessons Learned at #eval11 Google Analytics and Squishiness
I attended two sessions at Evaluation 2011 where Google Analytics was discussed. In both, the emphasis was placed on how you could use GA in evaluation practice; questions you could answer and how you would go about answering them. At some point or another a hand would raise and a technical question would be asked. […]