Readiness for Quality Outcomes: Our Approach at The Dawn Chorus Group
Have you ever wondered what conditions impact the success of your project? What determines if your team is prepared for change or innovation? At The Dawn Chorus Group, we specialize in these crucial questions and more. We are experts in evaluating and building readiness within teams. We have found that readiness is not a static…
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…
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?…
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!
Revisiting Elinor Ostrom
For ReSOLV, we’ve been discussing how this paper could be valuable in thinking through the different levels of readiness and readiness behaviors. The one thing that I really love is how we can think through the rules (both formal and informal) that govern different systems within a community. I ran through Elinor Ostrom in PubTrawlr…
The Brief Readiness Thinking Tool
As we get closer to our official launch of the Readiness Learning System, we wanted to promote the Brief Readiness Thinking Tool. This easy-to-use document helps your team deeply consider what issues may be helping or hindering your implementation project. Not only is it free, it’s totally open source. That means you’re free to modify…
