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Virtual Conferences: If You Build it They Will Come

Virtual Conferences: If You Build it They Will Come. Bernadean “Bernie” P.L. Iszler Acting Chief Academy Division National Institute of Corrections Federal Bureau of Prisons Department of Justice. Why Virtual? . Cost of travel Serve ALL of corrections- #’s growing

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Virtual Conferences: If You Build it They Will Come

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  1. Virtual Conferences: If You Build it They Will Come Bernadean “Bernie” P.L. Iszler Acting Chief Academy Division National Institute of Corrections Federal Bureau of Prisons Department of Justice

  2. 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

  3. $40,000 budget • 500 participants • ¼ partners/stakeholders • Archive presentations on website

  4. Whoop-Whoop! Numbers- Numbers! • 2600 + registrants to site. • 35% partners/stakeholders. • Over 1000 participants week before. • Over 1100 participants day of conference.

  5. OUCH! • BOP shut out • Vender software fail

  6. Publicize everywhere!

  7. What we’ve got here… is failure to communicate?! Reentry, prison issues, jail overcrowding, community services…

  8. Engage!

  9. To infinity and beyond!

  10. “Risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.” -Timothy McMahon

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