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Aug

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Special Edition: 5 Ways that Living Through a Hurricane Made Me a Better Evaluator

Posted by on August 28th, 2017 0 comments

One of the NEO Shop Talk bloggers, Karen Vargas, lives in Houston and is sheltering in place with her family. She posted this special blog post to let our readers know how her evaluation training is helping her and her family face Hurricane Harvey. She also wanted to let you know her family is going… Read More »

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Aug

25

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SOAR: An Appreciative Inquiry Approach for Strategic Planning

Posted by on August 25th, 2017 0 comments

By guest blogger Michelle Eberle, Consultant, Massachusetts Library System In my new position with the Massachusetts Library System (MLS), one of my roles is providing consultation for strategic planning.  The Massachusetts Library System, a non-profit funded by the Commonwealth, support all types of libraries (public, school, academic, and special).  Yes, that includes health sciences libraries,… Read More »

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Aug

04

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Logic Model Hack: Project Management Tool

Posted by on August 4th, 2017 0 comments

My whole career has been an evaluation project juggling act.  At times, I was the only evaluation consultant for an entire university campus. Logic models were a game changer for me. When a client showed up in my office three months after our initial consult, I could pull out our logic model and we could… Read More »

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Jul

27

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Grab Your Spreadsheets, It’s On! Evaluation 2017

Posted by on July 27th, 2017 0 comments

I have learned a lot about evaluation from helping Cindy and Karen coordinate national evaluation efforts. There are some things, though, that are better taught in workshop form. I want some hands-on training, and I hope to find those opportunities at the annual American Evaluation conference Evaluation 2017 this November in Washington, DC. Luckily for… Read More »

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Jul

21

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Making Friends with the Theory of Change

Posted by on July 21st, 2017 0 comments

If you read articles about evaluation sooner or later you will read that your evaluation plan needs to have a good Theory of Change (for example, it’s part of “evaluability assessment” that I wrote about on July 7, 2017). This has concerned me because I assumed there were probably a lot of theories of change… Read More »

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