The VAOR 2012 E-conference is now closed.

Once again, thank you to our Presenters, participants, and to Justice Canada's Victims Fund for making this possible.

Randy McCall
Founder and Program Director
Victim Assistance Online Resources
http://www.vaonline.org/
info@vaonline.org

As previously stated, the E-conference will close to the public at 4:00pm EDT tomorrow, Saturday April 28th.  All presentations will be open right up until that time.

VAOR realizes that many of our attendees will find themselves busy with home life with the start of the weekend.  Thus, today may be our last chance to speak with everyone.

Let me take this chance to thank all our presenters, our registered particpants, and in particular those who took part in the public forums, for your time and comments. 

As I mentioned yesterday, feedback on our E-conference has been overwhelmingly positive; I believe this event has been an terrific success. 

Of course, I also wish to thank Justice Canada's Victims Fund for selecting our project for support.  Without their contribution, it could not have happened.

I encourage any of our participants who haven't filled out the Exit Survey to do so before tomorrow's closing.  You can always feel free to contact VAOR at: info@vaonline.org if you would prefer to e-mail suggestions or comments.

Randy McCall

A number of attendees have asked how many people are participating in our E-conference.  We have, of course, been stringently protecting the privacy of our participants, leaving it to the individual to decide to divulge their identities.

As of today we have 51 registered users.  Most (82%) are from the Canadian victim assistance community, and are evenly spread between Federal, provincial and regional agencies, services and victims rights organizations; many are well known on the conference scene.   The second largest national representation is American at 13%.  We have individual attendees from Australia, Italy and Nigeria.

We've had four people thus far take active part in the various fourms (8%).  While this seems low, it is actually close to the accepted norm for active voluntary participation in online discussion forums, which is 10% of the existing community. 

80% of the Feedback surveys have thus far been overwhelmingly positive.  The more reserved respondents wished for more detailed information, or a clearer overall message, from the presenters in question,

At this time we have only two participants who have completed the E-conference Exit Survey. 

Randy McCall

We've had many visitors and many positive comments from participants.  Please take the time to fill out the Feedback survey found in each Presenter's area;  in most cases, this is the only way they will know how their presentation was received.

Also, we need your participation in our Exit Survey.  Information collected from this survey will be used in our final report to Justice Canada's Victims Fund. 

All surveys are automatically anonymous, unless you decide to disclose your identity or contact information.

Thank you for participating!

Randy McCall

I'm pleased to announce the formal opening of VAOR's E-conference!

http://victimsweek.vaonline.org/

I look forward to hearing from our many registered attendees, and hope to see many more before National Victims of Crime Awareness Week is out!

Randy McCall