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 […]
Leading through Transformation
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at medium.com/innovationnetwork. Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash As I transition out of my role as Director of Innovation Network, I’ve been in deep reflection about how the last 20 years shaped and sharpened my own approaches to learning and evaluation, as well as those of […]
Practical Attractors
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. Attractor mapping is a method we’ve written about before. It’s a visual means of tracking where we pay attention and where energy is created, sustained and organized. Energy is represented through attention, action, activity, and interactions. Energy is dissipative and it’s dynamic. This […]
Evaluation Comics
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Big news! I have an evaluation comics page now. So what does that actually mean? Click here to visit the new page. Over the last decade my comics used to live almost entirely within blog posts. For most of my cartooning life I’ve […]
10 Subtle Signs of “Death by PowerPoint”
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com. Death by PowerPoint makes our audience scroll through their phone or lose interest. Important information sits on the slide, gathering dust. We’re all familiar with the obvious signs of Death by PowerPoint: Text-wall slides with bullet points for daaaays. Using filler words (um, […]