This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at nicoleclarkconsulting.com. The first evaluation I ever led was for The Doula Project. My relationship to The Doula Project started with being a volunteer as a graduate student, and joining the board of directors a few years later. Based on feedback from the organization’s Leadership […]
Make Me Think
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. There is this fantastic book on usability written by Steve Krug called, Don’t Make Me Think. It’s not new, first released out all the way back in 2000. But if you have never read it, you should. Even if you have never really […]
Ask Nicole: Should Research Come Before Evaluation?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at nicoleclarkconsulting.com. Have a question you’d like to be featured? Let me know. This question comes from Larissa, a graduate student in Arizona. Larissa write: Hi Nicole, I’m a graduate student currently taking a class about research and evaluation. I also just finished a course […]
Identity Dress-up For Strategic Thinking
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. #image_title Seeing into the future is fraught with creative issues. While we might know about a future opportunity or situation, what might it feel like? What would it look like if we could ‘try on’ a decision before we bought it? We can. […]
Grandpa Henry’s Potato Leek Soup
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. I’m taking a sick day today. Picked up a case of strep throat at the end of last week that’s now hopefully working its way out of my system. But sick days are boring, and instead of streaming yet another movie or show, […]
How to Analyze Data with Excel’s Pivot Tables (No Formulas Required!)
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. In May 2023, I led a 45-minute session at Good Tech Fest about using pivot tables to analyze a dataset from start to finish. The conference recording wasn’t perfect — I got kicked out of the conference session midway, and again towards the […]
Habilidades asociadas con la gestión del conocimiento personal
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at triplead.blog. En un post pasado ya analizamos la La gestión del conocimiento personal (en ingles Personal knowledge management PKM), donde se indicaba que PKM: (1) Es un proceso que una persona utiliza (a) para recopilar, clasificar, almacenar, buscar, recuperar, compartir, internalizar e integrar conocimientos en sus […]
Building Equitable Structures
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at medium.com/innovationnetwork. As I step into my role as the Director of Innovation Network, I am reminded that I am not alone. My strength as a leader comes from my ability to set free the amazing knowledge and talent around me: from the Innovation Network […]
Accessibility is NOT a Checklist
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. It’s time to change how we think about accessibility. For just about half of my career I worked at company called Westat on a variety of different federal contracts. And when you work on federal contracts you quickly learn that every report destined […]
How to combine data from multiple sources for cleaning and analysis.
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. This article is rated as: As a data analyst in the world of evaluation, much of my work at Three Hive involves combining similar datasets from multiple sources into one master file to analyze them in aggregate. For example, a recent […]