Now Available! The Reporting Revolution (2nd Edition) What’s new? Launch Special! If you buy the book in November, you’ll get access to a free modern reporting jumpstart webinar on December 4 at 11AM Eastern. I’ll even record the thing, so even if you miss it you can still watch. All you have to do is […]
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The Reporting Three-Step Method
Summary: In this post I’ll show you a quick way to set up your own continuous reporting system. I’ve been working on my follow-up to The Reporting Revolution. I think I did an okay job of setting up my basic argument, that it’s time to change how we report and move beyond the PDF. I […]
The Future of Reporting
Summary: In this post I’m going to tell you the future. You can think about prediction as looking at the past and then projecting into the future. But there is an easier way. Instead of looking backwards or forwards, look to the side. Whatever you face, chances are, other fields or organizations are going through […]
Evaluation Resources from the CoP
Last week we officially launched the new Eval Central (a.k.a. the FreshSpectrum Community of Practice). For the launch on Thursday, September 18, we had a simple evaluation resource sharing session. It was a really nice gathering with 30-ish evaluators joining from across the globe (from the west coast of the US & Canada to Pakistan). […]
Evaluation Storyfinding
Summary: Evaluation maps really well to storytelling. Would it be easier if we just called ourselves story finders? I remember years ago sharing one of my evaluation cartoons with my mom. Her reaction was annoyance. Not with me, but with evaluation. She was a family literacy teacher for most of her career and the funded […]
Evaluation Resource Open Mic [Sep. 18]
Join me to help kick off the new EvalCentral Community of Practice series. About the session. Do you have a favorite free resource that you think other evaluators should know about? It could be a website, toolkit, journal article, tutorial, blog post, video, or course. It could be something that has helped you in the […]