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evaluatedlife: Welcome
Originally posted at evaluatedlife Welcome to evaluatedlife.com! I’m glad you’re here! Until I create a proper first post, I’ll leave you with a quote from Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet: “…go into...
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evaluatedlife: No Niche
Originally posted at evaluatedlife Most successful bloggers would say you should identify an audience before you start communicating. This sounds like common sense advice, and I agree with it…mostly....
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evaluatedlife: Examining assumptions
Originally posted at evaluatedlife One of the important functions an evaluator performs for a program or organization is to help clarify, question, and make explicit the assumptions upon which...
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evaluatedlife: Entering the Evalusphere
Originally posted at evaluatedlife I promised to share some of what brought me to this blog and have since realized completely fulfilling that pledge is a process that will emerge over time rather than...
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evaluatedlife: What are you doing to help your clients learn?
Originally posted at evaluatedlife One of the reasons I started this blog is because I am always finding neat evaluation-related content online that I can’t incorporate easily into my work. I don’t...
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evaluatedlife: Small Kindness
Originally posted at evaluatedlife I’m on a trip doing important evaluation business. Yesterday morning before leaving for what I knew would be a long and also enjoyable day, I left a tip for...
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evaluatedlife: What are you doing to help yourself learn?
Originally posted at evaluatedlife Last week the aea365 blog reposted an intriguing challenge from John LaVelle at Claremont Graduate University. John asked us to develop our own personal statements...
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evaluatedlife: Social work, evaluation, and life (or What My MSW Taught me...
Originally posted at evaluatedlife It’s Social Work TIG week over on the AEA365 Blog and I hope people have been reading. I’m glad to see Kathy Bolland calling attention today to the common values...
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evaluatedlife: Social work and Evaluation- Part 2
Originally posted at evaluatedlife One of the things I love about learning is the way it shifts over time. Thinking about my time in graduate school made me realize how much of that experience I’ve...
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evaluatedlife: A new look
Originally posted at evaluatedlife Based on the frequency of posting here it might look as if I’ve decided against this whole blogging thing. I haven’t. Actually, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about...
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evaluatedlife: Evaluation Resistance Dudes
Originally posted at evaluatedlife We talk a lot about resistance in the field evaluation. “Evaluation has so much to offer. Why do organizations, funders, participants, and leaders resist our...
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evaluatedlife: Six ways to be more intentional and have more fun at a conference
Originally posted at evaluatedlife Have you ever come home from a conference exhausted and wondering what the heck just happened? This happens to me, especially at large conferences like the American...
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evaluatedlife: Following my own Advice
Originally posted at evaluatedlife Here’s how I did following my own advice for navigating the spectacle of ASAE in Nashville last week. Nashville showed us a great time! 1. Take time for silence and...
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evaluatedlife: Bringing Beauty Back
Originally posted at evaluatedlife On my desk are two books to help improve my writing by writing fewer words, better. It takes me 1,000 words to say anything on this blog. I don’t have that kind of...
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evaluatedlife: PuttyFest
Originally posted at evaluatedlife Happy Puttyfest! What’s Puttyfest? Puttyfest is a few days dedicated to celebrating people who boldly choose to follow many passions in life. Emilie...
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evaluatedlife: Learning JUST for fun
Originally posted at evaluatedlife Hi, my name is Anne and I’m a recovering edu-holic. I’m addicted to reading, learning, courses, credentials, anything with a syllabus, merit badge, gold star or that...
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evaluatedlife: Lessons from Dad on making a difference
Originally posted at evaluatedlife It’s Fire Prevention Week so this post is in honor of my dad, a retired firefighter and fire prevention educator. Herosim is about concern for other people in need,...
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evaluatedlife: One Year, One Thing
Originally posted at evaluatedlife Image from page 410 of “St. Nicholas [serial]” (1873)Internet Archive Book Images. Today Facebook provided me with my year in review, saving me the trouble of...
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evaluatedlife: New Year’s Collage
Originally posted at evaluatedlife Do you do anything special to start a new year? I usually spend the first week of every year engrossed in post-conference survey data analysis and adding my tasks to...
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evaluatedlife: What is this ULab you’re tweeting about?
Originally posted at evaluatedlife If you follow me on Twitter, or happened to have noticed the Twitter widget down there, you may be wondering what all this #ULab business is all about. ULab:...
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