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Virtual Conferences: If You Build it
They Will Come
Bernadean “Bernie” P.L. IszlerActing Chief
Academy DivisionNational Institute of Corrections
Federal Bureau of PrisonsDepartment of Justice
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Why Virtual?
• Cost of travel• Serve ALL of corrections- #’s growing– NIC Staff #’s frozen– NIC Budget shrinking
• Reach audience outside customer base• Audience for virtual– NIC LMS- 2013: over 40,000 completions– 250 e-Courses
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1. $40,000 budget2. 500 participants3. ¼ partners/stakeholders4. Archive presentations on website
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Whoop-Whoop! Numbers- Numbers!
• 2600 + registrants to site.• 35% partners/stakeholders.• Over 1000 participants week
before.• Over 1100 participants day of
conference.
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OUCH!• BOP shut out• Vender software fail
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Publicize everywhere!
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What we’ve got here… is failure to
communicate?!
Reentry, prison issues, jail overcrowding,
community services…
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Engage!
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To infinity and beyond!
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“Risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.”
-Timothy McMahon