Conference presentations are great because you have some control over the context. You can adjust the lights and quiet the room. You can walk around, carrying the gaze of your audience with you. At this moment, how are you reading this post? Are you sitting in your office staring at a desktop screen filled with tabs and […]
You’ve got 10 seconds, make your point with a deductive presentation
Remember the power point glory days? You know, the time when you could give a super boring bullet-point filled presentation and not lose 99% of your audience. The web’s not like that. I mean, it’s really really not like that. Even some awesome 5 minute slide driven presentations don’t work well on the web. We […]
Make your website irrelevant, take the circus approach
What would rather have? Option A: 100 people experience your online presentation, but you only have proof of 30. OR Option B: 50 people experience your online presentation, and you have proof of all 50. I’m guessing you chose option A. Here’s a second question, is that your reality? Time and time again, online presenters […]
Evaluation 2013: A Conference Story and 9 reflections
If you were to ask me last week how I was feeling after the conference, I would have probably said reenergized. At this moment though, to be honest, I’m a little overwhelmed. The conference was great but now I have so many plans for this blog, and evaluators I want to follow-up with, that it’s hard […]
22 bloggers with advice for researchers and evaluators, illustrated
**UPDATE** This post really struck a nerve. I want to thank everyone who has read it and shared with others. Now you can get a take home pdf version, just download it here. I really think that you should blog. That whatever is getting in your way, you should shove it aside and just write something. […]
16 Blogging styles for researchers and evaluators
I dislike the term blogosphere. It sounds like some kind of all-encompassing entity. One made up of personal gripes, margarita recipes, and silly cat videos. It would be like grouping together grocery store flyers, credit card applications, and heartfelt letters. We would see it on the news… The anchor would say, “hey, what did the […]