Don’t change your 200 page reports. I’m sure someone in your audience wants that comprehensive report, and if you change it, you won’t be serving that audience anymore. Now instead of changing the report, create an adaptation. A second report to reach a different audience (maybe a 30 pager). After you’re done with that, why […]
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PDF Surprise
So wait… A bunch of PDF reports that were likely not written with a web audience in mind were put up on the web alongside lots of other PDF reports that were likely not written with a web audience in mind. There were probably no other dissemination strategies attached to communicate the individual PDF reports […]
Limited Resources
Today's “Why Evaluate” cartoon inspired by Jonathan Mwewa: Evaluation helps you to answer to key questions of the existence of your project or programme including relevance?, cost effectiveness?, efficiency?, replicability? and sustainability? We need to evaluate our work because we need to be accountable for the resources that we use because resources are scarce and […]
Blogging Advice – Short Version
So a little while ago I compiled a really long blogging advice post. But because everyone is overwhelmed, here is a really short post. You should start a blog because it gives you a platform where you have complete control. Here is how you start. 1. Go to wordpress.com and sign up. You’ll need an […]
IF statements in Excel to check for bad sorts
An Excel spreadsheet is really easy to corrupt. It's why syntax backed analysis programs have an edge, they keep an audit trail. Maybe you forgot to extend the auto filter across all of your columns. Or maybe you copy and pasted in some new data that just happened to be sorted by state abbreviation instead […]
Write every single day
I'm stuck in a rut. There is a ton that I want you to know. Things that I get asked. Things I feel evaluators would find valuable. Things that keep me up at night. But for some reason they just sit in my head. I need to shake them loose. Starting today I'm a daily […]