{"id":18744,"date":"2014-10-06T15:45:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T20:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=18744"},"modified":"2019-02-26T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:22:47","slug":"heart-valve-journals-community-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2014\/10\/06\/heart-valve-journals-community-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Guide: Introducing Heart Valve Journals 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In connection with the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2014\/08\/22\/heartvalvesurgery-com-relaunches\/\">relaunch of HeartValveSurgery.com<\/a>, I am excited to introduce you to Heart Valve Journals 2.0. As you may know, Heart Valve Journals (HVJ) is a special online community of patients, their family members and friends. We started HVJ, in 2009, to help patients meet and learn from each other. Since then, HVJ has helped 1000&#8217;s of people &#8212; from diagnosis through recovery.<\/p>\n<p>To help you learn about all the new features and capabilities of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/\">Heart Valve Journals<\/a> community, I made this video guide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QxUn-o_KUz0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Again, I want to thank all the community members for their feedback, support, encouragement and&#8230; criticism.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Through your comments, we will continue to make Heart Valve Journals a special place for patients, their families and their friends &#8212; before, during and after surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Here is a written transcript of my video:<\/p>\n<p>Hey everybody! It\u2019s Adam and I am very excited to introduce you to the next generation of Heart Valve Journals. As some of you may know, Heart Valve Journals is a special online community for patients, their family members and their friends. It\u2019s a way for people to connect and learn from each other. When we started this all the way back in 2009, we didn\u2019t really know what was going to happen, but we learned quickly that people truly appreciate these types of connections when they\u2019re going through a surgical process specific to heart valve disease. Today, I\u2019m going to introduce you to some of the great new features that we\u2019ve been working on and I\u2019m also going to share with you the ways in which Heart Valve Journals has stayed exactly the same. To get started, let\u2019s take a look at the Heart Valve Journals community. You can access it by clicking the My Community Button. Here you can see at our Start page that we\u2019ve done our best to make things very easy. For new users, they can watch a video in 60 seconds to learn what we\u2019re all about.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve also included pictures and posts of the members of our community. Here\u2019s John and Lulu and Joan, Janet and Holly and for people who are wanting to become part of our community, for the first time we\u2019ve integrated with Facebook. Why did we do that? Facebook has hundreds of millions of users and now with just a click of a button, patients can get started. It\u2019s really that easy. Now for members of our community who\u2019ve already been using Heart Valve Journals, we\u2019ve asked you to sign in using your email address and your password. Why is that? That\u2019s because those two pieces of information will help us identify you and access all of your guest books, photos and journals that you\u2019ve already put up at the site. With all the posts going on in our community, the journals, the guest books, the photos \u2013 I\u2019ve really struggled with finding a way to make meaning of it all. How could we possibly collect all that information and put it somewhere so that it was accessible to everybody in our community?<\/p>\n<p>One way to solve that problem is to create a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/newsfeed\/mynews\">Patient Newsfeed<\/a>. Here from the Start page, you can click on this button that says News. You can click See Patient Updates or you can go to the top My Community tab and then click the link that says Patient Updates. When you do that, you\u2019re going to see a real time collection of posts by the members of our community. Here\u2019s John talking about his angiogram. Here\u2019s a guest book post for David. Here Aubrey writes to me. Christine gets a guest book post and Janet here is posting a journal. You\u2019re also going to see something new here. Let\u2019s look at Janet\u2019s. For the first time, we\u2019ve created a comment system where Eleanor, Ruth, Janet and Janet again are using this comment system to create a conversation amongst themselves. This is definitely new. This is definitely different. We\u2019re really excited about it because it\u2019s already having a great effect.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, I\u2019m very happy to announce our Upcoming Surgery Section. The patients have been asking me about creating something like this for years and I\u2019m thrilled because now if you want to see which members of our community are going in for surgery next and you want to learn about them, and\/or you want to support them through the process, all you need to do is click their links. There\u2019s one other thing you should know about the Newsfeed. Here it is. If for any reason you don\u2019t want to see all the activity that\u2019s going on in the Newsfeed, all you have to do is click the See Newest Patient Journals and just like the old version, all you\u2019ll see are the latest posts that were made by each of the members of our community. It\u2019s really that simple.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve talked about some of the ways that Heart Valve Journals is different in the new website, but there are many features that remain almost the same. Let\u2019s take a look at Erica\u2019s Journal. Again you\u2019ll notice it\u2019s very similar to how it looked in the past, but now for the first time, I\u2019m going to show you a new comment feature that we have. Here\u2019s Erica talking about pre-op testing and guess what happens next? The members of our community get to share their experiences relative to Erica\u2019s topic. Myself, Laurie, Laura, Kenny and Joan and Erica herself are having an exchange to help her through this process and help each other. The other thing that has been a huge, huge help for our patients and caregivers is the Guest Book. This is where friends and family come to give our patients words of encouragement and love. Again, you\u2019ll notice pretty much the same except for yep, you guessed it \u2013 not here\u2019s an opportunity where Erica gets not only posts from people like Gina and Jim, but in addition, she\u2019s getting comments. Again, she\u2019s learning, everybody\u2019s learning together and they\u2019re connecting in a new way.<\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s look at one of my favorite sections of Heart Valve Journals which is the Photo Section where we get to see all the patients, their family members and their friends. To show you the new My Photo Section, we\u2019re going to go ahead and click on David\u2019s Photos. Here you can see the gallery is really easy to use. When you click on it, now not only do you get a bigger version of the picture which will be coming up in a second here, but what you\u2019re also going to be able to do is you\u2019ll comment. Then if you want to move on and look at his other pictures, you can simply do that. That\u2019s the new My Photo Section.<\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s talk about another new feature, the My Story section. To show you the new My Story section, let\u2019s go ahead and we\u2019re just going to pick Erica. Let\u2019s go to her journal and when we get there, if you scroll across the top navigation for Erica, you\u2019ll see something that says My Story. This is new and this is something that\u2019s been asked for again for quite some time by our patients and our community. When you click that button, you are going to get to learn a lot of great information from Erica that she\u2019s provided us. She tells us that she\u2019s from Avon Lake, Ohio, when her surgery date is, the fact that she has aortic stenosis, her surgeon is Dr. Lars Svensson and she\u2019s going to have her procedure done at the Cleveland Clinic. Then you also get to see that Erica spends some time telling you in her own words, what her story is and some of these can be as small as two sentences and I\u2019ve seen some of these as much as five paragraphs. This is the new My Story section.<\/p>\n<p>One more great feature to talk about is this button right here which is Follow Me. Your friends and your family members, they can come here and click that button. They can insert their email and when they do that, they\u2019re going to be notified by email the moment you post a journal. Another thing we heard from our community members was that they wanted to have more control over their account and their account settings, including privacy. We created something known as The Control Panel. From this one location which can access from the Newsfeed or you can use the drop down menu right here, you can do a whole lot of stuff. You can post a journal, you can upload a picture, and you can edit your My Story. This is again, super-neat \u2013 you just click and insert information and this populates on your My Story page. The other thing is privacy. This didn\u2019t exist in the last Heart Valve Journals and now thanks to your feedback, you can turn on and off notifications. You can remove yourself from the search engines. You can go ahead, if you don\u2019t want to be in the newsfeed, you can simply opt out of it. That\u2019s a feature we created for Terry. Again, we want everybody to be super comfortable when they\u2019re using Heart Valve Journals.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still more you can do. You can change your profile settings. Something that I really enjoy is inviting family and friends. We now have some patients who have over 200 subscribers. How do you know who your subscribers are? You simply go and click your See My Subscribers and they appear. If at any time, you want to simply just delete your journal, all it takes now is a simple click of the button.<\/p>\n<p>One of the final features I want to share with you is something that\u2019s brand new and it relates to how patients, their family members and friends will know when a posting has occurred specific to them or something they\u2019ve commented on. If you notice over here in the upper right hand corner, for members who are logged in, there\u2019s a little red heart and a six next to it. What this is is our new Notifications System. When you click that icon, what\u2019s going to happen is you\u2019re going to see certain posts that were just put up in connection to thinks that you\u2019re interested in. When you click on that post, you get to see the thread that you have previously commented on. Here I commented on Erica\u2019s post on her pre-op and then Susan came and she was curious to know about the new valve that Erica had. Then Erica came back and she talked as well. This is the new Notifications System.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it. Those are some of the highlights of Heart Valve Journals 2.0. I would like to extend a humongous, a gigantic, and a tremendous thank you to all the members of our community for your encouragement, your support, your feedback and yes, your criticism. I realize that as we\u2019ve rolled out this new platform, it hasn\u2019t always been smooth sailing, but I do want you to know that through the hiccups, I\u2019m trying my best to make sure that Heart Valve Journals is not only a special place for you, but it\u2019s beneficial to you. From the moment that you\u2019re diagnosed to the moment that you feel recovered, for that I extend a huge apology for any problems that it\u2019s caused as we\u2019ve released this program. I also want to thank you for your patience. 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