I asked Sean Durkin, who was a communications director at Dolby Laboratories and is now a communications consultant at SciQuest:Jaggaer, the following question, which inspired the above cartoon. What’s the biggest challenge you face when trying to stay creative while in a corporate environment? the biggest challenge for me is finding time and space to […]
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But can you tie it to an SDG, inspired by @mquinnp
As promised yesterday, here is the second part which inspired the cartoon above. I asked Michael Quinn Patton what he thinks is the biggest challenge evaluators will face over the next five years. Internationally: The hysterical mania that focuses on SDGs and demands connecting anything and everything to SDG indicators.
Slashing Evaluation and Training, inspired by @mquinnp
I asked Michael Quinn Patton what he thinks is the biggest challenge evaluators will face over the next five years. He gave me a two part answer. This is the first part, and it inspired the above cartoon. In the USA: Surviving Trump’s draconian government budget cuts. Evaluation and training units are easy targets and […]
Every webinar or web meeting
Oh, and sometimes the person eating the chips has a loud dog.
Presentation White Space
I drew this one with just the sillyness in my head, but then I thought more about it. I think presentation white space is the banter you have with your audience at a time when you could be presenting. And the quiet moments, the pauses, and any time spent laughing together. Those moments do indeed […]
Hey academics, people don’t trust you.
A guest post (by William Faulkner, João Martinho, and Heather Muntzer) put up on my friend Stephanie Evergreen’s blog sparked a big discussion in the comment section. I’ll paraphrase a little… Stats People – You don’t understand anything. Confidence intervals really stand for blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So this is […]