Hi everyone,
Following feedback we’ve had from users - in our most recent annual survey, user testing project, and via the forum itself - we’re going to be updating Talking Point next Monday, 22 July. The forum will be unavailable for a few hours first thing that morning, whilst our technical team work hard to make sure everything is running smoothly.
We are not making any fundamental changes to the way Talking Point works. Rather we are updating the look and feel of the forum, with the aim of making it clearer and easier for everyone to use.
One of the main changes we’re making is adding more sub-forums, on a wider range of topics. We’re doing this because at the moment, the busiest forum by far on Talking Point is Support for people with dementia and their carers. This is where the vast majority of conversations take place, which means that searching this forum for specific topics can be quite a challenge.
It also means that this forum currently contains discussions about many different aspects of dementia – from posts from members who are adjusting to a new diagnosis, to discussions about coping with end of life care.
We are also going to divide the Resources forum into a number of sub-forums which focus on different types of resources – including helpful websites, books, films and music, and healthcare and nutrition.
We hope that having new sub-forums on a wider range of topics will make it easier for people to find the information and types of discussions that they are looking for. We have tried to arrange the topic areas as sensitively and intuitively as we can, taking into account the different kinds of conversations that may be taking place.
As part of the update process, we will be closing the Support for people with dementia and their carers and Resources forums, a few weeks after the changes have gone live. Active discussions from these areas will be moved over to one of the new sub-forums, and people who have started discussions will be consulted about these moves. When the old forums are closed to new posts, all of the content within them will still be visible, so no information will be lost .
These are the key changes that are taking place. There will be other, smaller changes as well, which we’ll outline as soon as the updates go live next week.
I'll attach a screen shot of the new forum home page along with a 'quick read' version of the above, very shortly.
If anyone has any questions about these updates, please feel free to
- post them here
- PM myself or Serena
- Email talkingpoint@alzheimers.org.uk.
Thanks ,
Following feedback we’ve had from users - in our most recent annual survey, user testing project, and via the forum itself - we’re going to be updating Talking Point next Monday, 22 July. The forum will be unavailable for a few hours first thing that morning, whilst our technical team work hard to make sure everything is running smoothly.
We are not making any fundamental changes to the way Talking Point works. Rather we are updating the look and feel of the forum, with the aim of making it clearer and easier for everyone to use.
One of the main changes we’re making is adding more sub-forums, on a wider range of topics. We’re doing this because at the moment, the busiest forum by far on Talking Point is Support for people with dementia and their carers. This is where the vast majority of conversations take place, which means that searching this forum for specific topics can be quite a challenge.
It also means that this forum currently contains discussions about many different aspects of dementia – from posts from members who are adjusting to a new diagnosis, to discussions about coping with end of life care.
We are also going to divide the Resources forum into a number of sub-forums which focus on different types of resources – including helpful websites, books, films and music, and healthcare and nutrition.
We hope that having new sub-forums on a wider range of topics will make it easier for people to find the information and types of discussions that they are looking for. We have tried to arrange the topic areas as sensitively and intuitively as we can, taking into account the different kinds of conversations that may be taking place.
As part of the update process, we will be closing the Support for people with dementia and their carers and Resources forums, a few weeks after the changes have gone live. Active discussions from these areas will be moved over to one of the new sub-forums, and people who have started discussions will be consulted about these moves. When the old forums are closed to new posts, all of the content within them will still be visible, so no information will be lost .
These are the key changes that are taking place. There will be other, smaller changes as well, which we’ll outline as soon as the updates go live next week.
I'll attach a screen shot of the new forum home page along with a 'quick read' version of the above, very shortly.
If anyone has any questions about these updates, please feel free to
- post them here
- PM myself or Serena
- Email talkingpoint@alzheimers.org.uk.
Thanks ,