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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. […]
Lessons Learned at #eval11 TIG as CoP
Ok, I’m now back home after a nice conference. Instead of giving full recaps, I’m going to write a string of posts on lessons learned from Evaluation 2011. I’m going to start with my first session: Topical Interest Groups as Communities of Practice: Strategies for building a community of practice. Is it a network or […]