This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. In today’s post I’ll share the steps I used in creating a line graph centered infographic. The more I use Flourish, the more I like Flourish. Canva is a super easy tool for infographic design, but its chart builder leaves a lot to […]
Practical Systems Thinking: The Cynefin Framework
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. The Cynefin Framework is among the most widely used frameworks for understanding how systems are organized. It might be the most practical means of bringing systems thinking to life. A system, after all, is simply an organization of things within some constraint or […]
Using Dashboards to Make a Family Trivia Event Even Better
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Emily Ross recently finished her PhD in health services research and is now as a junior evaluation consultant at Ference & Company Consulting. She enrolled in our Dashboard Design course and is sharing how she used her new skills in her personal life. […]
Using Canvases
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. You might have noticed that the world seems to be awash in canvases these days. The canvas model owes much of its popularity to the work of Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur and their Business Model Canvas. A canvas is a form of […]
Using Decision Canvases
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. You might have noticed that the world seems to be awash in canvases these days. The canvas model owes much of its popularity to the work of Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur and their Business Model Canvas. A canvas is a form of […]
How to Support Your Local Abortion Fund
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at nicoleclarkconsulting.com. Now is the time to raise your voice. Late Monday night, a leaked draft decision from the United States Supreme Court confirmed what many in the reproductive justice and abortion rights movement have known: Roe v Wade (1973) will be overturned, extremely restricted and in some cases, making […]
Falling In Love With Your Challenge
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. Humans are strongly motivated by two forces: love and money*. When pursuing change and seeking to better things we often look at ways to gain more money as the solution, but what about love? What if we fell in love with our challenge? […]
What’s the difference between goal and objective? The most confusing evaluation jargon
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. I’ve had many experiences collaborating with other evaluators, colleagues, or program managers starting a new evaluation. Questions fly like “Which evaluation framework will we use?”, “What will our approach be?”, “What is the evaluation plan?”. And often, down in the weeds, we question […]
3 Easy Ways to Quantify Your Qualitative Data
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at evalacademy.com. You’ve completed your qualitative data collection and you’re writing up your report. You step back and look at All. The. Text. If only you had some quantitative data to include in a chart, or some numbers to report! We’ve previously written about how […]
Canva Accessibility is bad, here is how you fix your design.
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. As much as I love Canva, there is definitely one spot where the tool absolutely fails. And that spot is accessibility. When you work with a lot of government clients the topic of accessibility is almost always at the top of the considerations […]