Diary Entries for roy

Finally.. MDJ community update

roy

Happy spring everyone!

It seems I have totally neglected writing in my diary lately, I do hope to write more now - let it be my spring resolution ;-)

As opposed to my diary... a lot of work was put into the site...

Over the past months we’ve upgraded many of the site core features, making it much faster and more user-friendly. I’m sure you’ve noticed all the pages coming up much faster than before.
We’ve also replaced the old Supp [...]

MDJ autumn updates

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Hello friends
It’s time for autumn updates.

The first thing you probably noticed is that the left pane is on the left again!
You guys voted & although it was close, theleft side won. So I guess the left side is the right side ;-) we’ll keep relaying on your opinion for our next decisions – stay tuned.

Major update to our chat features. You no longer need the MDJ toolbar to chat, just your friends.
Take a look at the friends lis [...]

MDJ going green

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Happy days on MDJ...

The green logo you guys chose dictated the rest but we tried to keep as many elements the same or similar. I really hope you like it!!

It looks to us as everything is working OK, but it would be a great help to let us know if you see something that isn't (always - but especially today) !!

As you can also see... the personal menu is still on the right. We haven't decided on it yet. We get mixed feedbacks... feel free to comment here on which side you th [...]

UV has a sister !

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I’d like to apologize to the many people whom I didn’t answer the past few days… as you can see I had a very good reason…

;-)

New MDJ logo

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77% of the votes!!

...not a big surprise to anyone who read some ofthe comments in the Choosing our new Logo post (record breaking - more than 500 comments).

I'm guessing it is going to be another 4-5 weeks before you'll see it live, but i promise you'll notice it right away! we're going to be making site wide adjustments and a lot more [...]

Choosing our new Logo

roy

Hello Fellow members!

I’ll keep this short and Sweet…

It’s time to give MDJ a little face lift & we want YOU to choose the new logo for our community.

Below are the 3 options our designer made (which will also be the theme of the whole design), all you have to do is choose the one you like best. We’ll do the rest ;-)

Thank you!

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Diary and PM update

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Hi Everyone, I hope this finds YOU in good health & spirit!

Today we launched a few upgrades that, as always, were requested by your fellow members and are all improvements of your user experience.

Diary section

Privacy. So many members asked for this... we had to do it ;-)

you can now choose Who can read your diary:: Anyone, Only Members, Only My Friends or Only me. make your choice on who should see your personal thoughts.

De [...]

Awareness Ribbons and more

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My Dear MDJ Family ;-)
Once again it looks like i'm falling behind on my diary updates. almost 3 months since the last one.... :?

BUT at least I bring good news... starting nowyou can wear more than just one ribbon on your profile!
I know so many here are dealing with more than one issue (or family & friends) and would like to be able to share their cause with everyone - so go ahead wear your ribbons ;-)

in your profile page you can choose which of yo [...]

Summer updates on MDJ

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Hello my friends ;-)

I hopethis finds you all in good health and spirit & that despite the horrible summer heat you're enjoying this time of the year (I'll be traveling to Vegas and the Grand Circle later this month… weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…..).

UPDATE: as of August 2012 we no longer support the MDJ toolbar and we recommend uninstalling it.

Exciting day !

I am very happy to announce the launch of the MDJunction Community toolbar for your browser (aka the MDJ Bar)!! You can now get many of the functionalities of MDJunction on your own browser with a BIG added value… the MDJ Bar supports a 1on1 live chat customized for our own community.

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Our glorious advocates

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Hi everyone ;-)

It’s been a long long time since I last updated my diary. Too long, I guess I’m nearly failing :?

In about 10 days we will have some very excitingnews and updates (including the #1 asked for feature in MDJ history ;-) ) but before that I want to share with you some of the great stuff members of MDJunction have been doing to advocate and spread the word about their groups.

The list is beautiful and I have to admit that some [...]

2010 is almost here�

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Hello MDJunction family!

So many things I want to talk to you all about… ;-)

I'll start with a BIG thank you to all our advocates. Words can not express how grateful we are to you guys! In such little time so many of you signed up and began (well… many actually continue…) spreading the word about MDJunction. I'm sure you're all feeling the impact as the groups continue to grow.

Many of our new advocates asked us to start a Fan [...]

New support group features and MDJ Advocates

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Good day my friends ;-)

Unbelievable! It’s mid November 2009. I just can’t believe it’s been almost 10 years since Y2K and believingthat EVERYTHING is going to break / meltdown / malfunction / drop / stop & disappear ;-)

We are continuing to upgrade the site and built features you’ve asked for. Pls keep those requests coming, I love them!

Updating the Support Group [...]

MDJ Insider - Summer Edition

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Hello my friends ;-)

I love summer. That big yellow thing in the sky just makes me automaticallysmile (and feel sorry for all our many friends who come from the land down under).

Summer also does wonders for MDJunction. We are growing rapidly! Most of the groups are getting more & more new members, more discussions, friend [...]

MDJunction updates

roy

Hello friends,

It's been three months since my last diary post. I'm really not living up to my promises here...

As you guys probably notice MDJunction is getting biggerand bigger, more people joining our family and more support for everyone! I'd like to thank everyone for the great work you're doing in spreading the word about our community. So many people tell me they found out about MDJunction from their therapists, someone they talked to at a waiting ro [...]

Is it December already???

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Happy Holiday Season My Friends!

I hope you all got used to the new look by now and enjoy the better navigation between pages, more navigation improvements are in the oven.

The good news for today is that we've set up a photo gallery section in each profile page for you to be able to shre your pictures (I already started). This new section is (again) the fruit of the many members who requested it in the past few months. Now... you're all welcome to share more ideas...< [...]

Here comes the new MDJunction.com

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Hello Hello Hello,

Weeeeeeeeeee Weeeeeeeeeee Weeeeeeeeeee ;-)

As you can probably see…… we've just launched a new User Interface to the site. The long awaited moment has come! I sure hope you’re going to like it. Some of the pages might look a bit ‘mixed’ at first, please try reloading the page by holding the ctrl key and pressing F5. If the problem continues pls con [...]

Spread the Word

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Hello Hello!

A couple of weeks ago I spoke with some of you about spreading the word on MDJunction. I was shocked when I realized so many are already doing great things and WOOOW the ideas I got were just amazing!
MDJunction is now home to more than 600 support groups for various conditions and challenges. This place is helping thousands of people every day (!) and we can help so many more (especially in these tough times), we just need to make it known.
I’m going to lis [...]

Community Updates

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Hi Everyone,

A few quick notes.

First I'd like to tell you, that as you probably noticed the community continues to grow very fast. We have more than 300,000 monthly visitors and growing fast! A lot of the credit goes to you guys for the great help you are offering each other and the family warmth felt in every group. Thank you ;-)

I'm happy to announce that we've finally changed the ranking system of the site.Many of you contacted us regarding the old system and [...]

We Need Your Help

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A lot of people ask me if/how they can help MDJunction grow and help more people.

Well… we do need your help!

Bellow is a small list of things I thoughtof it’s under 3 categories. On site, other places and people you know.I don’t expect everyone to start fulltime work on this, but when you do have some spare time please give this a thought ;-)

On Site

T [...]