I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there is a lot of information waiting to be found on the world wide web. If only someone would take the time to pick out the most interesting things… Oh wait, there are people that do that. Many people. It’s the curator approach to blogging. Usually involving a […]
Introducing Eval Central
Eval Central is now up and running. This experimental site integrates feeds from a variety of evaluation blogs in order to develop a single evaluation news source that can run with very little overhead. Essentially this site is based on a directory but by opting for aggregate feeds, rather than a static list of links, […]
Livening up your Blogroll
While the best blogs are consistently updated with fresh content, blogrolls are often just a stagnant list of friends and sites with similar themes. As a reader, it’s hard to put too much stock in these kinds of lists. There is usually very little to describe the content or post frequency and many blogs live […]
Time for a change…
I think one of the great things about the web is that it is filled with passionate bloggers. That’s passionate bloggers, not people passionate about blogging. What’s the difference? To be a passionate blogger you just need to be passionate about your subject. If you are, then chances are much better that you will keep […]
Web Perspectives: Amy A. Germuth on Evaluation Blogging
Web Perspectives is a new ongoing series for FreshSpectrum.com. For this series I will interview researchers, evaluators, and academics to learn about their professional experiences with the web. Amy A. Germuth is President of EvalWorks, LLC a woman-owned small evaluation and survey research consulting business in Durham, NC. She blogs at EvalThoughts.com First off, would […]
Blogging, who has the time?
The idea of writing a blog can be intimidating. Many of the most popular blogs are updated daily, or even multiple times a day. For most academics and research professionals, this type of schedule often just does not work. Luckily, it doesn’t have to. Here are some tips for creating a successful blog, or becoming […]