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  • Essential tools to track your social media data

    This infographic by Infographic World identifies the key data to be measured and specific tools and applications for tracking different social media profiles.
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  • Research to action: Social media

    This site contains a great roundup of blog posts about using social media to encourage research uptake.
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  • Co-producing policy recommendations: Lessons from a DEGRP project in Uganda

    This report by DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme (DEGRP) describes in detail how the researchers turned findings into recommendations, and how the various stages of stakeholder consultation influenced different elements of the projec
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  • The psychology of climate change communication: A guide for scientists, journalists, educators, political aides, and the interested public

    This guide by the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, while focused on communicating research on climate change, will be useful for anyone interested in the theory behind communication and behaviour change and those who nee
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  • VUE

    The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a concept and content mapping application developed to support teaching, learning and research.
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  • Scapple

    Scapple is an easy-to-use tool for getting ideas down as quickly as possible and making connections between them.
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  • Lucidchart

    A cloud-based flow chart maker with a number of usual features, including integration with programs like Visio. Cost: Free, but account required From the website:
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  • TOCO

    Theory of change Online (TOCO) is web-based software (no download required) that you can use to design, edit and store your theory of change.
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  • Dylomo

    Dylomo is a free, web-based tool that can be used to create interactive, online logic models.
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  • Logframer

    Logframer is a free project design and management application based on the logical framework approach (LFA / Logframe).
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  • Big data for development: challenges & opportunities

    This white paper by UN Global Pulse examines the use of Big Data in development contexts.
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  • Learning about Theories of Change for the Monitoring and Evaluation of Research Uptake

    This practice paper from IDS captures lessons from recent experiences on using ‘theories of change’ amongst organisations involved in the research–policy interface.
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  • Reporting and supporting evaluation use and influence: Tips from evaluators

    Evaluation use is a key issue for the evaluation community. The aim of evaluation is to be influential, so it should be of use to policymakers, programme developers, project planners and managers.
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  • A quick primer on running online events and meetings

    Meetings and gatherings are vital components of evaluation. Often these are done face-to-face, however sometimes necessity or practicality makes meeting online the best option.
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  • 7 Strategies to improve evaluation use and influence - Part 2

    This is the second of a two-part blog on strategies to support the use of evaluation, building on a session the BetterEvaluation team facilitated at the American Evaluation Association conference last year.
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  • L’évaluation en contexte de développement

    Ce manuel est destiné aux personnes souhaitant s’initier à l’évaluation de programmes, en particulier en contexte de développement et de coopération internationale. À cet égard, tout en déroulant le fil d’une démarche évaluative classique, il présente…
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  • Sparking Collective Learning

    This blog post from Sarah Plachta Elliott describes how a System of Supports and Opportunities was used by Brandeis University’s Center for Youth and Communities in six neighborhoods&nbs
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  • Social media news release webinar with step-by-step guide

    This one-hour webinar is an in-depth discussion of the 15 steps to creating a press release. Excerpt The following example is an excerpt from Falkow (2012)
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  • 50 top tools for social media monitoring, analytics, and management

    This blog post by Pam Dyer lists 50 different tools for gathering, analysing and reporting data about social media.
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  • Miradi

    Miradi is designed to provide project teams with the essential features that they need to design, manage, monitor, and learn from their conservation projects, in other words, to practice good adaptive management.
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  • Theory of change software

    There are a number of options when it comes to using software to help create a logic model.
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  • Evaluation use in multilateral development institutions with Dr. Jos Vaessen

    In this webinar, Dr Jos Vaessen, Evaluation Advisor at the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group, discussed how independent evaluation is organised in multilateral development institutions.
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  • Theory maker

    This free and open-sourced web-based tool was made by Steve Powell as a quick and simple way of creating a theory of change. The information provided was supplied by Steve Powell.
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