The objectives of the Virtual WESNET project are to:
- significantly improve the communication between WESNET and its membership, thereby harnessing women’s voices on domestic and family violence issues across Australia;
- enable WESNET to manage its own website content; and
- establish an online professional community of practice, VirtualWESNET, which will provide a valuable source of support and opportunities for professional development for members of the Domestic and Family Violence workforce.
The revamped website and development of an online forum will enable WESNET to provide information to, and share information with, its membership through an online community. The virtual community will provide a place for workers in Women’s Services to seek mentorship and peer support from colleagues who are spread across Australia.
WESNET received a Government grant under the 2007-08 Women’s Leadership and Development Program to refurbish its website and create a new forum for its members to discuss issues relating to prevention and elimination of violence.
WESNET Committee members attended training in Sydney on 27 March to learn how to use the new content management system that underpins the new website. From now on, WESNET can control and update its own content.
Project Coordinator: Karen Bentley, Karen Bentley Consulting
Technical design – Robin Rainton, R2B2Networks
Graphic Design – Matt Weston, WestonCreative.
Project Manager: Julie Oberin (Vic)
Project Steering Group: Pauline Woodbridge, Shirley Slann, Vicki Lachlan, Lindy Edwards.
Please contact wesnet@wesnet.org.au for more details.
