The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society - Fighting Blood Cancers
5 Replies Last post: Jun 26, 2009 11:18 AM by Tex  
Tex   3,897 posts since
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Jun 20, 2009 2:32 PM

Samantha, A Suggestion

Samantha,

 

I was wondering, is it possible to put a little commentary note under the headings?  Specifically, I'm thinking the Living With... heading might have a listing of what is under it.  Like this...

 

Living with...

(ALL, AML, CLL, CML, HCL, Hodgkin Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Mantle Cell Lymphoma, Rare Lymphomas, MDS and other blood disorders)

 

--OR--

 

Living with...

(Forums for each blood cancer type)

 

I'm sure there are a lot of newbies who simply don't know how to find these forums.  "Living With..." might not be as descriptive as you think it is.  I have had to direct a number of folks to the right forums.  I'm glad to do it.  But they shouldn't have to wait for someone to come along and point them in the right direction.

 

Another idea is that a number of folks have talked about the lack of stremlining recently.  Notice PJ's post above.  How about removing the excess verbiage at the top of the pages so folks can get tirght down to business?  Do we actually need to read the following on every page?

 

"Welcome to the new and improved,,,

 

I don't think so.

peejay   341 posts since
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1. Jun 21, 2009 8:34 AM in response to: Tex
Re: Samantha, A Suggestion

"Living with" is too vague.

 

Maybe something along the lines of: Livng with Blood Cancers and then list some specifically in parenthesis.

Samantha Mills Community Administrator 157 posts since
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2. Jun 22, 2009 3:24 PM in response to: Tex
Re: Samantha, A Suggestion

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll discuss this with our monitors and see what we can do.

Samantha Mills Community Administrator 157 posts since
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4. Jun 26, 2009 10:45 AM in response to: Tex
Re: Samantha, A Suggestion

Tex wrote:

 

Another idea is that a number of folks have talked about the lack of stremlining recently.  Notice PJ's post above.  How about removing the excess verbiage at the top of the pages so folks can get tirght down to business?  Do we actually need to read the following on every page?

 

"Welcome to the new and improved,,,

 

I don't think so.

The monitors and I discussed this request (which we have noticed has come from several participants), and elected to remove the welcome message from every board except for the main LLS Blood Cancer Discussion Boards. We agree that it would reduce scrolling and allow you to get into the content more quickly.

 

Tex wrote:

 

Samantha,

 

I was wondering, is it possible to put a little commentary note under the headings?  Specifically, I'm thinking the Living With... heading might have a listing of what is under it.  Like this...

 

Living with...

(ALL, AML, CLL, CML, HCL, Hodgkin Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Mantle Cell Lymphoma, Rare Lymphomas, MDS and other blood disorders)

 

--OR--

 

Living with...

(Forums for each blood cancer type)

This is something that I'm looking in to, so I cannot guarantee that this is going to be possible. This already exists on the homepage of community.lls.org, so for anyone who is coming into the LLS Blood Cancer Discussion Boards via the LLS Community homepage will know what these boards are. We'll see what we can do.

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