Have you ever heard of social objects? I talk about them every once in while here, but probably not enough given how important I think they are in the spread of information. Social objects are anchors for conversation. They can be ideas, concepts, stories, physical objects, or anything else we can talk about. My cartoons […]
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Evaluation is a dangerous profession.
Evaluation is a dangerous profession. Not dangerous as in it requires hard hats or tethers. But dangerous in that it questions realities most would rather ignore. Traditions that are so deeply entrenched within organizational structures that merely hinting at their instability can lead to alienation and professional isolation. Our frameworks and methods exist not only […]
Report Review: 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment – Wake County, NC
Today’s report review took me a strange direction. What started as a simple report review ended up becoming a full working paper, but more on that shortly. This post is in two parts: In the US if a hospital wants to be tax exempt it has do a few things to meet IRS requirements. One […]
Reports are Comic Books, Insights are Spider-Man
Spider-Man started in a comic book. Nowadays you’ll find Spider-Man in big budget movies, stage shows, theme parks, children’s books, halloween costume contests, popular memes, backpack designs, and bedroom sheets. The character traveled over the years from a concept in Stan Lee’s mind to become a household name across the globe. All sorts of good […]
Report Review: UNDP Annual Report 2025
I’ve been working a lot on testing and improving my theory of use framework. Basically I take reports that should have pretty broad reach then run a kind of external dissemination audit. It’s not quite the same as the dissemination audits I give my clients because with those I have a lot more insider information. […]
Simple But Effective Resource Page Illustrations – Before and After
This is one in a series of before and after designs. With this particular post I am sharing lessons from an actual client project. You can see other before and after posts in the series by following this link. How it Started – SECPI Resources I started working with SECPI (Strengthening Evaluation Contracting Partnerships Initiative) at […]