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Aug

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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

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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

Aug

07

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A Rainbow Connection? The Evaluation Rainbow Framework

Posted by on August 7th, 2015 0 comments

Once you start looking online for help with your evaluation project, you will find a veritable storm of evaluation resources out there. So many that it can be confusing how choose the best ones for your needs.  But don’t worry, once you’ve looked at this online tool you will find the rainbow of hope that… Read More »

Posted in: Blog

Jul

31

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How to Write a Mission Statement Without Losing Your Mind

Posted by on July 31st, 2015 0 comments

Mission statements are important. Organizations use them to declare to the world how their work matters. They are the North Star for employees, guiding their efforts toward supporting organizational priorities.  And mission statements are important to evaluators, because evaluation methods are ultimately designed to assess an organization’s value.  Having those values explicitly stated is very… Read More »

Posted in: Blog

Jul

23

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Getting Started in Evaluation – Evaluation Guides from the OERC

Posted by on July 23rd, 2015 0 comments

New to the world of evaluation? What is your boss talking about when she says she wants you to measure outcomes, not outputs?  What is an indicator? How many responses should you get from your surveys? Sometimes people think evaluation is just the form that you fill out at the end of a class or… Read More »

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