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147 – Dissemination in a bottle
 

147 – Dissemination in a bottle

Published On: November 19, 2021
Cartoon by Chris Lysy. man says, "This makes no sense." Woman replies, "Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it doesn't make sense." Inspired by Vidhya Shanker.
Freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy - Weather app with a methods section.
Audience Interest Level Cartoon - High Interest - "Give me all the data." Medium interest - "Okay, I'm listening, what you got?" Low Interest - "I'm sorry did you say something?"
freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy. Person driving a car (badly), "I love this new smart dashboard. It's so engaging. Look, you can play candy crush.
Freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy. An older Alice seeing the white rabbit walk by, thinking, "Not falling for that one again. I'm much too busy anyway." Rabbit looking at pocketwatch saying, "I'm Late."
Freshspectrum comic by Chris Lysy. One person to another, "So you don't find long wordy evaluation reports inspiring? That's just me?
Freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy, "I use lots of jargon because I care more about precision than you understanding my lesson."
Freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy, Person 1, "A few years ago I launched my independent consulting practice." Person 2, "Neat, what kind of consulting do you do?" Person 1, "Oh, you know, a little of this, a little of that."
Freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy. "We suggest using a modern 1:3:25 reporting strategy." "1 slidedoc, 3 blog posts, and 25 social media posts."
Freshspectrum cartoon by Chris Lysy. How to identify a data visualization expert.
You're blocking the chart!
3 Page report reads like a 50 page report
We need to prove evaluation works to others.
Rich like me cartoon.
I don't get it, it's just a simple word game.
"Careful? You fall into that and you'll never see our program in the same light again."
"So you just fell into evaluation?" person 2, "I considered starting my own nonprofit. But then I thought, we don't need more nonprofits, we need the ones we have to be more effective.
What it means to "fall into" evaluation. "Our grant application requires an evaluation plan. You're good at Excel and power point right?"
That's a job.
Fell into a logic model cartoon.
Have you ever flipped through a notebook and found some random phrase that you have no recollection hearing, thinking, or writing? "This frog has style. "Asking for a friend."
So yea, I went to school for social science, and, yada, yada, yada, now I'm a program evaluator."
"I was told you find our new report really useful? Person 2, "Oh, I do, I needed to raise my monitor and it was just the right length."
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