Aspen is a place for leaders to lift their sights above the possessions which possess them. To confront their own nature as human beings, to regain control over their own humanity by becoming more self-aware, more self-correcting, and hence more self-fulfilling.
The biweekly ‘So What?’ guide highlights advice, events, and tips — mostly from the advocacy and evaluation worlds, selected by the Aspen Planning and Evaluation Program.
APEP has some old-fashioned skepticism about social media as an advocacy tool – because of perennial difficulties with defining its impact or its contribution to policy change outcomes. The for-profit sector offers results that are easier to quantify. In hopes of offering more tools with potential crossover value for social and policy change, we offer this convincing case study of social media impact in the tattoo-parlor equipment field. Even if you can’t make the killer cross-over work, at least you’ll learn some killer tips for marketing ink capsules.
Feedback and Evaluation
Washington, DC hosts two gatherings of the evaluation clan very soon: first off, the cool people at Feedback Labs bring you the Feedback Summit November 2-3. And the as-cool-as-evaluation-nerds-can- ever-be folks at our own American Evaluation Association bring you Eval2017, coming to the Washington Marriot Wardman Park from November 6-11 and not too painfully far from APEP world headquarters. So, procrastinators: it’s time to register and show up.
