“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.” – Rita Mae Brown, American feminist writer At the end of each year the Oxford English Dictionary selects a word of the year. The selection is both retrospective, chosen because of dramatically increased use in both […]
2020 in Words: Insights into the Trajectory of Humanity on the Blue Marble Read More »
In conjunction with the one-year anniversary of the publication of Blue Marble Evaluation and creation of the Blue Marble Evaluation Network, we are pleased to announce that Michael Quinn Patton has been awarded the EvalYouth Transformative Evaluator Award. This new award recognizes his substantial contributions toward transforming evaluation to ensure the field’s usefulness and relevance in creating
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In January, before the pandemic, I offered a blog on Moving at the Speed of Trust: The Role of Blue Marble Evaluation. This is an updated review of how attention to trust has evolved during this turbulent year. In that new year’s blog I wrote: Trust matters for transformation. The Blue Marble theory of transformation hypothesizes
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Join us to hear from Michael Quinn Patton, founder of Blue Marble Evaluation and author of the newly released book of the same name. He will walk through the structure of the book and dig into some of its content. We will also offer a guided tour of the new Blue Marble Evaluation website. Click
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The Blue Marble Evaluation website went live in November 2019, with the goal of building a diverse global community of evaluators and evaluation users committed to the principles of Blue Marble Evaluation. Over the last nine months, we have been working to create an online space that provides useful information to promote and implement Blue Marble Evaluation as
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It seems like a long, long time ago when the clarion call for managing the coronavirus pandemic was flattening the curve, but it was only seven months ago. I predicted at the time that the widely communicated and highly effective graphic disseminated by CDC (2020) would become the world’s most famous, influential, and recognizable graphic visualization.
In honor of Blue Marble Evaluation’s founder, Michael Quinn Patton’s 75th Birthday on September 5, 2020, we invited some of his colleagues, friends and family to sing along to “Sweet MQP” to the tune of Sweet Caroline, by Neil Diamond, one of Michael’s favorite songs. We also invited members and friends to sing Happy Birthday to
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This webinar is now complete. You can view the recording here. Greg Watson is the Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. His work currently focuses on community food systems and an initiative to improve global systems literacy. Greg has spent over 40 years learning to understand systems thinking as inspired
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This Social Systems Map represents the ecosystem developing around the Transformations Systems Mapping and Analysis Working Group. This is one of our first products, which will contribute to our development, help us to self-organize, and amplify our ability to SEE the eco-system we are creating as we evolve as a Working Group. We will continue to
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The Transformations Systems Mapping and Analysis Working Group (TSM&A WG) is well under way! With over 100 people representing 23 countries, we have created 10 workstreams within the working group on a variety of topics. Each Workstream feature Conveners and Fellows and several held their first convenings over the past few weeks: the Scorecards workstream
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