This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Close-up of a small greenish-grey bird, a female Anna’s hummingbird, drinking from a pink-coloured flower. Apropos of nothing except I like hummingbirds. Photo by Steve Harvey on Unsplash Reading this Twitter thread and thinking about the conversations we’re having in evaluation about being […]
entering the clearing
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by Robert V. Ruggiero on Unsplash A friend asked me today how I was figuring out the current crisis, and we had a lovely clarifying conversation about our respective struggles and journeys. A few ideas surfaced for me that I want to […]
complexity and equity
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by Praewthida K on Unsplash I promised Jara I wouldn’t overthink this one and just get this off Twitter and into a blog post, and I’m really trying hard to live up to that. (I might have overthought “not overthinking it” though.) […]
‘how do you like to be held accountable?’
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by ian dooley on Unsplash Do yourself a favour and check out this post from Mariah Brothe Gantz, “The Realm of Possibility in Evaluation”. (And once you’ve clicked through and read it in its entirety, also click through and read all the […]
working from the mistake
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. You’ll have to imagine the heady perfume of woodsmoke and cedar that permeated the afternoon. Yesterday afternoon I spent a few delightful hours in a spoon carving workshop learning how to carve a cedar spoon with a bush knife and some hot coals. […]
enter the new year
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. The path ahead is beautiful and uncertain. Photo by me. I imagine evaluators are reflective people by default, whether by nature or practice. I definitely find myself obsessed with milestones and checking back to think about what changes and progress I’ve made in […]
string theory
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo of colourful balls of yarn by Jason Leung on Unsplash Here’s something I’ve been thinking about. Imagine a big knotted clump of yarn, the kind of thing that happens when you leave a crafting project at the bottom of your bag for […]
you’re invited to ‘Developmental Evaluation: The Art of Learning’
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. I know what you’re thinking. Do we really need yet another “The Art of”? Can’t we let this naming convention go and find something more creative for our workshop titles? I sympathize, I do, yet here we are. Because this time it’s my […]
drowning in the data
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by Lianhao Qu on Unsplash “Can we even get that data?” That question, or some version of it, is usually one of the first, if not the first, question I hear when planning or discussing a new evaluation project. People want to […]
more advice for emerging professionals
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. I don’t have a specifically appropriate image for this post, so here’s a nice picture I took at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden over the weekend. One of the first posts I put up here was one about advice for emerging evaluators, based […]