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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi again,&lt;br /&gt;
Our next &lt;a href=&quot;http://hs.technologyandsocialaction.org/hotseat-3&quot; title=&quot;hotseat&quot;&gt;hotseat&lt;/a&gt; is now open and Steve Walker invites your participation&lt;br /&gt;
with &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Evaluation is often seen as a necessary evil: a requirement for&lt;br /&gt;
financial support. It can often feel like that, certainly. When we&#039;re trying&lt;br /&gt;
to understand how to use novel technologies, though, evaluation can be an&lt;br /&gt;
important part of the learning process. After all, it&#039;s the opportunity for&lt;br /&gt;
us to understand technologies &#039;in the wild&#039;: and our &#039;wild&#039; is often very&lt;br /&gt;
different from that of business or government whence many technologies&lt;br /&gt;
originate. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;How then, can we organise evaluation as a learning process, in&lt;br /&gt;
this case, about technology?&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the next fortnight, Clodagh Miskelly and Steve Walker will explore how&lt;br /&gt;
we can use evaluation to enhance our effectiveness.  Steve&#039;s work in&lt;br /&gt;
evaluating large scale projects has required that he take a more structured&lt;br /&gt;
and formal approach, whereas Clodagh has worked with small groups using in&lt;br /&gt;
depth dialogue. By bringing them together we aim to engage our diverse range&lt;br /&gt;
of social activist colleagues in dialogue.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://hs.technologyandsocialaction.org/hotseat-3&quot; title=&quot;http://hs.technologyandsocialaction.org/hotseat-3&quot;&gt;http://hs.technologyandsocialaction.org/hotseat-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br class=&quot;clear&quot; /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org/node/422&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Leonie Ramondt</dc:creator>
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