Does anyone know how many "active members" ACEsConnection has?

Hi, Paul: I suppose that you don't want to know that it's sunny and about 100F here in Northern California!

To answer your questions:

It's difficult to say how often all of our 15,500+ members check the site, because all of the content on the site is public, which doesn't mean you have to sign in to see it. (Our philosophy is to make this content as easy to see as possible, and as easy to share as possible.) So, if you go to the home page, you'll often see hundreds of current visitors; most will be guests, while perhaps fewer than 20 of those are members. Since people don't need to log in to see content, the only people logging in are people who are posting blogs, videos, comments, etc.

People's activity is rated only when they log in and contribute, so you can see on their profile where they are. Our network, like others, pretty follows the 1-10-100 rule. For every 100 members, there's one that participates regularly, 10 that participate occasionally, and 89 that only read.

If you go to a person's profile page, you can see all of their activity, and drill down into different types of activity, ranging from the content they posted to comments.

If people configure their notifications to receive no emails from ACEsConnection, then people won't receive an email that's a personal message.

You can search members by geography...here's how.

As far as activity on the network, this year we've gone past two million page views per month. Last month we had more than 2,600,000 page views.

The network has more than 15,000 blog posts, more than 3,000 comments, and more than 1,500 video clips. For a small community-of-practice social network, that's pretty good. We're not a discussion network; we're an information and support network, so that ratio is about right.

Next month, we'll be rolling out a new suite of tools and guidelines for local ACEs initiatives (city, county, region, state) to start and grow groups that support and measure the goals of their local work, so I expect that the number of geographic-based groups, which number about 70, will grow.

Looking forward to the "new suite of tools and guidelines for local ACEs ..." and "geographic growth".... Last time I checked, we had 50+ members in New Hampshire.... I haven't recently checked Vermont.... (I reside about 1/4 mile from the NH/Vt. 'border'.)

Kia ora from Aotearoa/New Zealand!  I don't often log in as I tend to rely on the Digest, but interest in ACES is well alive in NZ.

Susan Smith posted:

Kia ora from Aotearoa/New Zealand!  I don't often log in as I tend to rely on the Digest, but interest in ACES is well alive in NZ.

 

that's very interesting, Susan. What evidence have you got for that.

I'm in close contact with someone in the Health sector there, and he can't find ANY evidence for it in Health, especially in Dunedin, the home of the University of Otago, the self-proclaimed "Premier" university in New Zealand. He's tried for a couple of years to get an ACEs group set up in New Zealand, to no avail -- apart from him, who no longer seems to be active in this group, he found very very few (2-3) people active on ACEsC who were from New Zealand. New Zealand's Te Pou -- the foreemost agency active in mental health training in NZ -- has tried a few times to get something started up for trauma informed care in mental health, with no success.

Certainly, though, the Resilience film attracted a great deal of attention, but again not in Dunedin. And perhaps restricted to the vulnerable children sector, like your own Barnardo's group.

So, as with "ACEs" everywhere, it tends to be very patchy -- certainly, that is the case in Australia ---- there was a talk for A&D workers in Queensland about patients' experience of early trauma, and the speaker didn't even know of the Dore, Mills et al (2012) research from UNSW's NDARC.

One former New Zealander, who previously 'lobbied the UN' on 'disability issues', has been very active with '[trauma-informed] Intentional Peer Support', both here in the US, as well as having done '[t-i] IPS' presentations in Japan, and elsewhere... I'm not sure if she's a member of ACEsConnection (New Hampshire now boasts 73 members, but she recently moved to Vermont, and I haven't been able to access member-individuals since the ACEsConnection map doesn't seem to still use the [red] 'inverted tear-drops' on the map for each member.

Hi, Robert: Even though that map doesn't use the tear-drops anymore, you can still find people using the map. Here's how:

https://www.pacesconnection.com/...s-connection-members

(That tear-drop map was pretty nifty, but we became too numerous to be able to use it.)

Cheers, Jane