What do you get when I’m swamped at work? Random cartoons like this one…
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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…
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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 […]