Apr 01, 2015
Nova Scotia C@P• Provincial Program • C@P Sites• Need for Communication & Evaluation 209
497,483
• Communications Committee
• ‘Thinking C@P’ Newsletter
• Social Media & Plan
• Public Blog
External Communications
Talking…
• Coordination Blog
• Elluminate
• WebEx
“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”~Anthony Robbins
Internal Communications
Talking…
C@P App
• Our needs
• Our Tools
Evaluation
Listening…
“To listen well is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation.”~Chinese Proverb
• Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. ~Albert Einstein
• Statistical information can be a launch pad, not a
destination.
• People like numbers.
Counting Matters
• Meets needs for pure statistical information
• Atlantic –wide Stats
• Currently under construction
C@P Tracker
1 Jan 2011 – 1 Jan 2012
236,507260,976MaleFemale
Total users(not including wireless)
497,483
Bums in Seats
Age Groups
92,091
114,269
110,117
141,945
39,061
0-1415-2425-4444-6465+
Bums in Seats
New-Returning
132,024
365,459
NewReturning
Bums in Seats
Traditional quantitative methods not giving the full picture
Making Things Count- Why?
Decided to look around at some other non-traditional evaluation methods
Cognitive Edge Sensemaking-Complex space-Networks (human, technical, biological)-Knowledge-Data collection and analysis-Good Practice
Making Things Count- What?
Collector Site- Story Prompt
Making Things Count- How?
• Counting things does matter
• But be careful about what you count and how you interpret
What Matters in the End
In Closing…a video.