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Here’s a gently satirical treat to take you into the holiday season and give us food for thought as evaluators. How much do sterotypes drive the way needs and outcomes are reported in cultures other than our own? Or, as this group of African students in Norway puts it on their Africa for Norway Read the whole post –> The Friday Funny: RADI-AID (Africa for Norway)  
This week we hinted on twitter that we’d have a high-profile guest to interview. Today, Jane Davidson interviews the President! [Sorry, folks; we couldn't resist playing with this in the run-up to the US elections! We debated it and agreed before we started the interview, of course. ] Yes, it’s Professor Rodney Hopson, president Read the whole post –> Interview with the President! A new podcast from Genuine Evaluation Time after time in online discussion groups I see questions like this one: “What are the best tools to measure the effectiveness of [insert any program, policy, or initiative]?” It’s a classic case of thinking evaluation is merely measurement, and measurement gives you the answers. Many managers and non-evaluators think like this – that Read the whole post –> Why “What’s the best tool to measure the effectiveness of X?” is totally the wrong question  Stuart Henderson’s mention of The Two Second Advantage (see the LinkedIn discussion referred to in the post from earlier this week) reminds me of the work of business strategist Arie De Geus, who discusses how learning organizations use scenario planning to create “memories of the future”. It seems to me that this idea has Read the whole post –> The two second advantage and memories of the future So much to see, so many choices, and today I struck gold in session after session. Here are a few highlights from one of the best! The indigenous TIG is one of the best-kept secrets at the AEA conference, and one of their offerings today was no exception. It was standing room only in Read the whole post –> AEA highlights: Metaphors and more in culturally responsive evaluation |
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