Notes on “Notes on Effective Altruism”
I first came across the effective on Lex Fridman’s podcast where he interviewed William MacAskill. In a nutshell, effective altruism is the practice of making decisions based on the greatest good for the greatest number of people. This can be done by donating money to charity, volunteering your time, or advocating for change. Effective altruism…
TA can work….if we study it well.
Our friend and colleague Victoria Scott just published a large scoping review on TA effectiveness evidence. She writes: Advances in the science and practice of TA hinge on understanding which aspects of TA are effective, and when, how, and for whom these aspects of TA are effective. Addressing these core questions requires (i) a widely adopted standard…
Using Twitter Data to tell stories
Earlier this week, our friends at the New Jersey Health Initiatives we kind enough to host our dear friend Dr. Elena Ragusa of Drive Evaluation and myself to talk about how to use Twitter more effectively in social services. We might have this sense that we have to jump on major trends or spark something…
Analyzing Twitter Data: There’s an App for that.
Well, we finally did it. We launched a beta version of Readiness Learning Systems. So far, we only have two apps up there, which are designed to help you analyze and learn from Twitter data. What you can do is either enter a hashtag or a full account (like @waitbutwhy, for example), and we’ll process…
Implementation Matters: A website to document community-based practices, knowledge, and evidence.
We just launched Implementation Matters–our 100% open-source, community-driven wiki to collect and store community-based evidence and perspectives on community-based issues. This is why we’re doing it. Vanishing Ideas Over the past decade, I’ve worked with dozens and dozens of amazing coalitions and organizations. And the work that they do sometimes gets documented into evaluation reports…
Big Things are coming to Dawn Chorus
First things first! We’ve brought on a new specialist, Meghan Blevins, to support our evaluation and research efforts. We love community psychologists, and are happy to have more working with us. Let this be a lesson to you community psychology students. There are cool roles out there for us! Do you like our current website?…
Does this seem like it works as a process?
The idea is to improve the quality control issues that we had in HRSA1 and make a cleaner way for the data to be reviewed. We’ll find out if this works!
Shame on me; I forgot to make the data available.
About a year ago, Victoria and I published this great article looking at the themes and trends in implementation science. I mentioned at the bottom of the article that the data was available on our website. Now, a year later, I should make good on that. Click here to access the full dataset!
Readiness, outcomes, and roles.
Thanks to the vision and constant grinding of Dr. Janet Durbin of CAMH, we have empirical support that readiness differs depending on the role and level of leadership in an organization. That’s it. No need to bury the lede! Okay, here’s a bit more For a while, we had some challenges with readiness research. Recall…
A resource for collaborations
Over the past two-ish weeks, we’ve been thinking a lot about how to measure the qualities of collaborations. There’s certainly no shortage of frameworks to help with this. Several years ago, I was introduced to the idea of Relational Coordination, which focuses on how communication patterns contribute to how work gets done. There was even…
Incorporating Geographic Methods into Qualitative Data Collection — a teaser
We are very excited to be working with Dr. AÍda Guhlincozzi on the RISE project to help improve equity with community health systems. One major strength that Dr. Guhlincozzi brings to the table is how she’s been able to incorporate geography into evaluation efforts (specifically in Chicago). We plan to talk more about her methods…
