First, I need to give a big thank you to all our wonderful regular members who held down the fort while the BCNA office was closed. Although I checked in every day (I can’t help it), I could relax in the knowledge that our new platform would keep spammers out and that our regular members would be there to support our newbies. We had a surge in traffic, registrations, and new users. So, believe me when I tell you that your help was much appreciated.
We have more than 80 new members since 1st of Decemeber. Please welcome @Shassy, @Mimi, @Jannr, @Marvin, @midget, @Amazonia, @Nads, and the rest of our new members. Let’s also welcome back some returning members like @donnafisher and @robynvhi.
Community highlights
Here are some interesting conversations you might have missed:
- @”Ad Lib” offended her in-laws.
- @”Vivianne Vanessa” is only 31.
- @Lisa50 has started swearing. There are worst things you could do.
- There are a lot of famous breast cancer survivors.
If you’re a leader or member of a group, please remember to
check your group. There may be members or questions pending. Group members
don’t receive notifications like we do in the rest of the forum. You can see all the groups here.
And speaking of groups, we’ve got a new (old) one this week: Young women. Pre-menopausal women face some unique challenges. Our members in their 20s, 30s, and 40s have a new space to gather and discuss their experiences with breast cancer at a younger age.
Coming in 2017
A new year brings new opportunities and we’re looking forward to improving the online network for you. We’ve been really happy with the new platform. The feedback from you has been fantastic. But there’s always room for improvement.
We want to make the groups more visible. We know that many of you are reading this on a mobile phone or tablet so we want to improve your mobile experience. We know we have a lot of quiet readers and we’d like to be better at reaching out to you. It’s important to us that the BCNA online network is diverse and reflects different kinds of breast cancer experiences including those of young women, people living with metastatic breast cancer, men, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.
We also want to help our members become more knowledgeable and comfortable with our ever changing and expanding digital technologies. We want to help you maintain your safety and privacy online. We’ll be reviewing user names to make sure people aren’t using their first and last names or their emails as user names.
And finally, @Ann-Marie_BCNA and I also want to slip away from the office more. We’ve really enjoyed meeting you at various BCNA events and we’re looking forward to more of that this year.
