Week 13 Tour Update

This past week Alex and I put together our presentation and posted it online to the discussion board. We went through some interesting trials as we put everything together ...

One interesting story is our quest for the Family Violence Prevention Center's website. We were working on our project in the SILS lab and were trying to remember the FVPC's site; the problem was we didn't have our pamphlets with us so we were trying to recall it from memory - we both knew the site existed, or at least it was advertised, so we tried our first guess: fvpc.org. This brought us to a church's website so we Googled 'family violence prevention center of chapel hill, nc'. This brought up lots of opportunities to volunteer with the center, but no information on the center or its services.

Since we couldn't find ANYTHING we decided to call them (thanks to Google maps we had the number). The staff member who answered the phone informed me that the site was fvpc.org; when I told her we had tried that and it didn't work she replied with "let me try it, maybe my Internet here is different". Obviously, she also got the church site; she then told me that they had just switched technology coordinators and that perhaps the site was down and would be back soon but the address was definitely fvpc.org; well, this obviously wasn't true. Later, Alex and I found their site in our notes 'fvpcoc.org'. It was still interesting that we very much could NOT find their site, even when we asked the organization. Interestingly enough, fvpcoc.org is a very good site with lots of helpful information - if you can find it.

One thing we really wanted to get across and focus on was our actual, physical tour. We wanted to stress the 'information overload' aspect as well as the fact that we didn't really know where to start or where to go for what information (besides the Rape Crisis Center, which is obvious). We tried to stress this in our presentation through pictures ... I hope you enjoy it!