Problem: You want to connect what you already know about a respondent to a new web data collection. One Solution: URL Variables URL variables are by no means the only way to pre-populate data but they are one way. The premise is simple, you add data to the end of your survey’s invitation web link […]
Why Blog? My 5 minute Ignite talk at AEA
My Ignite talk from last November’s AEA conference is now up on the Ignite website! I’m embedding it here if you’re interested. It’s only 5 mins so not much of a time commitment. Also, speaking of blogging. AEA365’s series on Evaluators who blog continues this week.
New Year New Goals
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 […]
Evaluation and Blogging
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.
Toon: How Santa Gets His Data
Happy Holidays Everyone!
Social Objects and Magic
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 […]
Toon: Occupy Gotham
Batman is the comic book representation of the argument for the super rich. Basically, the idea is that there are certain things that can only be done by individuals who have amassed large amounts of money. What would the New York Public Library be without the super wealthy? In Batman’s case, that’s the Joker and […]
Toon: Festive Sampling
Oh Christmas tree lights, my old adversary…
Toon: Black Friday
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.