You’ve done the work; you’ve collected the data; now what? In recent years, there has been an outpouring  of tools to corral data and present it in a human-friendly format (ex. Infographics). A recent article in Information Today provides a run down of many different options based on the type of information you are trying to present. http://goo.gl/rf1mt

The American Evaluation Association [http://www.eval.org/] is creating a resource with presentation guidelines to help you “prepare, develop, and deliver awesome presentations that will better engage your audience and make your content stick.”

To view the tools they have posted, visit http://p2i.eval.org/index.php/p2i-tools/

Many of us who provide training classes end the class with an evaluation. Speaking for myself, I love to see positive evaluations, but sometimes there is a lone voice that does not jive with the rest of the evaluations. It is easy to say, well that is just one person. Rachel Wasserfel, an Evaluator by profession and a blogger, wrote a post called The power of the dissonant story.

From Rachel’s post: I suggest paying close attention to the outlier story – information, cases, events and other occurrences that are atypical, when compared to the overall data collected. Instead of dismissing such occurrences, I study them: they may signal a need to dig deeper for more insight.

Read the entire post at: http://goo.gl/CWn6w