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This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Have you ever had that experience of being really seen? Paid attention to in that deep way where the other person notices things about you that no one else ever seems to, maybe even sees things in you that you didn’t know were […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Blogging is hard. I’m not sure why I find it such a struggle, though I know I’m not the only one who does. I marvel at the folks who seem to be able to write quickly, eloquently, and insightfully (I can usually manage […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. There’s a really great device that Michael Quinn Patton offers for use in developmental evaluation called ‘sensitizing concepts’. He’s borrowed it from qualitative research methods as a way of providing guidance to inquiry in complexity. Here’s a definition he gives in his qualitative […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com.   Photo by Charles 🇵🇭 on Unsplash.   I hurt my back last week. This is not news. I’ve been hurting my back since 2013. About six months after I finished grad school, toward the end of my work-day, I noticed that my […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Pronouns are small little words to cause such a fuss, am I right? In my ideal world, my pronouns would require no footnotes, no extra explanation, or citations. But as we don’t live in a gender utopia, at least a little explanation is […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. In December I had the opportunity to moderate a breakfast club event organized by the local chapters for the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES-BCY) and the Institute of Public Administration Canada (IPAC Vancouver). The theme was next year’s CES 2017 Conference theme: Facing Forward: Innovation, Action […]