Resources

The Owl RE team writes and speaks regularly on evaluation and related areas. Our philosophy is to share as much as possible our know-how and beliefs on the exciting and topsy-turvy world of evaluation - as found on this page:

Latest blog post:
Content analysis and word clouds
“Content analysis is a research method to analyse and categorise all sorts of texts and images. This is usually a labour-intensive task but has recently been improved by smart software that appears to be getting better and better. Here is one….”
Read more on the Intelligent Measurement blog >>

Evaluation reports & guidelines (publicly available) :
World Health Organisation - Methodology for evaluation of neglected tropical disease control programmes at country level (pdf)
Evaluation report of the LIFT07 Conference (pdf)>>
Network mapping of the LIFT07 Conference (pdf - 1MB)>>

Articles:
“Blogs, mash-ups and wikis – new tools for evaluating event objectives: A case study on the LIFT06 conference in Geneva” from PRism, peer reviewed online journal: Read the full article (pdf)>>

”A Visual Pathway: Approaches and challenges in evaluation of IO/NGO communication campaigns” from Communication Director, Volume 2, 2007. Read the full article (pdf)>>

To Monitor or Evaluate or Both?
“Measurement during the course of a project can guide your actions and make a final evaluation easier.”
Read the full article in the Measurement Standard newsletter >>

Fact sheets:
Evaluating events and conferences (pdf)>>
Evaluating communication campaigns (pdf)>>
Evaluating communication products (pdf)>>
Evaluating networks (pdf)>>
Ten tips for better web surveys (pdf)>>
Hints for writing better survey questions (pdf) >>

“Fun” sheets:
Top ten excuses for not evaluating (pdf)>>
Top ten quotes on evaluation (pdf)>>

Presentations:
Evaluating Public Information and Advocacy Campaigns (pdf)>>
(presented at European Evaluation Society Biennial Conference, 1-3 October 2008)
LIFT07 Workshop: Do-It-Yourself Monitoring and Evaluation (pdf) >>
Presentation - Evaluation & luxury communications (pdf) >>