What's new about the "new" CancerConnection.ca?

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Today I’d like to highlight some of the new features on the site. You’ll find that most of the changes were designed to make the site more user-friendly. It should now be easier to find the information you are looking for, to keep posts about similar topics in a single place, and to connect with people who may share your experience. Here are a few things you may have noticed already:
What feature do you like best about our new site? You can vote in the Question of the Week , leave a comment below, or add to the feedback about the site discussion
Before – there were separate groups to discuss specific kinds of cancer, plus a spot in the main discussion area called “You’ve got cancer”. People were unsure where to post.
Now – the diagnosis-specific groups have been closed. The main discussion area has dedicated sections for the major types of cancer. In the future we can add more types of cancer.
Before – there were blogs. Many people were unfamiliar with the word “blog”, and were unsure what to post in a blog or how to set it up.
Now – we changed the name to “personal journal” and added a cheat sheet on how to set it up. Please note that even if your profile is “private” people who are logged in can read your journal. If you don’t want people to read your journal, please don’t create one.
This is a new section of the site. I will use it to highlight topics that I hope will interest community members, and to help you stay up to date with what’s happening in the community. There are lots of plans for this section, but for now it’s a work-in-progress and I look forward to involving you in its development.
The new search members feature will help you find others with similar experiences. This might be others in your province, with your kind of cancer, other caregivers or patients. You choose what to search on and it finds members with those characteristics.
What feature do you like best about our new site? You can vote in the Question of the Week , leave a comment below, or add to the feedback about the site discussion
Coming up in my next post – meet Nicole
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