For those interested in measuring internal communications (communicating with staff within an organisation), here is an interesting article by Susan Walker from the Handbook of Internal Communication:
“Measurement is not just an optional extra for communicators, but an essential part of their professional tool kit. It has been seen sometimes as a threat (will they cut my budget? will they cut me?) It can be, however, an exciting opportunity to evaluate, guide and direct communication initiatives and investment.”
Read the full article here>>
Glenn
May 27, 2008
As regular readers will now, I am interested in network mapping and have undertaken some projects where I have used network mapping to assess networks that have emerged as a result of conferences.
Here is quite an interesting tool, Net-Map, an interview-based mapping tool. The creators of this tool state that it is a “tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes”.
Read further about the tool and view many of the illustrative images here>>
Glenn
May 20, 2008
In the work I do to evaluate conferences and events, I have put together what I believe is a “neat” way of displaying the main results of an evaluation: an event scorecard. In the evaluation of a conference that occurs every year in Geneva, Switzerland, the LIFT conference, the scorecard summarises both qualitative and quantitative results taken from the survey of attendees. Above you can see a snapshot of the scorecard.
As I have evaluated the conference for three years now, we were also able to show some comparative data as you can see here:
If you are interested, you can view the full scorecard by clicking on the thumbnail image below:
And for the really keen, you can read the full evaluation report of the LIFT08 evaluation report (pdf).
Greetings from Tashkent, Uzbekistan from where I write this post. I’m here for an evaluation project and off to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan now.
Glenn
May 11, 2008
