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Sep

11

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Give Your Elevator Pitch a Lift

Posted by on September 11th, 2015 0 comments

Forget about elevator speeches.  Think elevator conversations. Elevator pitches are one of a number of strategies you can use to stealthily promote your organization’s successful programs and services. We cover elevator pitches in an OERC workshop about how to use evaluation to better advocate for your organization. I always thought of elevator pitches as little… Read More »

Posted in: Blog

Sep

04

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Which Online Survey Tool Should I Use? A Review of Reviews

Posted by on September 4th, 2015 0 comments Tags: ,

Recently we faced the realization that we would have to reevaluate the online survey tool that we have been using. We thought that we would share some of the things that we learn along the way. First of all, finding a place that evaluates survey products (like Survey Monkey or Survey Gizmo), is not as… Read More »

Posted in: Questionnaires and Surveys

Aug

28

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Simply Elegant Evaluation: Appreciative Inquiry at NN/LM MAR

Posted by on August 28th, 2015 0 comments

Kate Flewelling is the Outreach Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine’s Middle Atlantic Region (NN/LM MAR), which is located at the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library.  For those unfamiliar with the NN/LM, libraries and organizations join the network to help promote health information access and use.  The program is funded by the… Read More »

Posted in: Blog

Aug

21

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Improving Your Data Storytelling in 30 Days

Posted by on August 21st, 2015 0 comments

Here are some more great techniques to help with telling a story to report your evaluation data so it will get the attention it deserves. Juice Analytics has this truly wonderful collection of resources in a guide called “30 Days to Data Storytelling.” With assignments of less than 30 minutes a day, this guide links… Read More »

Posted in: Data Visualization

Aug

14

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Soup Up Your Annual Reports with Calculator Soup

Posted by on August 14th, 2015 0 comments

Summer is annual report time for our organization. Sometimes when I’m putting together my bulleted list of accomplishments for those reports, I feel as though our major wins get lost in the narrative. So I recently turned to an online calculator to help me create better metrics to talk about our center’s annual wins. One… Read More »

Posted in: Data Analysis

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