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Welcome to the EnableMe Community! We are your online forum around disabilities, chronic illness and mental health challenges. This space is for you to ask a question to a supportive community of peers and contribute responses based on your own experiences and knowledge. Our community is language-based, so you can meet peers from across different countries speaking your language. In this video, we will introduce the community to you!

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When you are on the main page, you can find the general categories of the EnableMe Community through the ‘Categories’-tab in the top menu of the page, between ‘Discussions’ and ‘Groups’. Here, you will find the three main cluster clusters of categories ‘Community’, ‘Health’, and ‘Living’.

• The ‘Community’ cluster is the one focused on the community exchange and socializing. Within the ‘Community’ cluster you will find categories such as Welcome Posts and Introductions, the Coffee Lounge to chat about anything, the Search & Offer hub, as well as local community hubs, and editorial posts from the EnableMe Community Managers. If you have questions or feedback for us, it will be most helpful to share in this category.

• Within the ‘Health’ themes cluster, you can scroll through or pose concrete questions about specific disabilities and chronic illnesses, to find disability- and illness-specific communities, posts, and tips. This includes separations between physical, sensory, psychosocial, and intellectual disabilities, as well as chronic illnesses, and assistive technology and therapy.

• The ‘Living’ themes cluster includes a variety of categories that cover the areas of life that may be affected by disability and illness. Here you can ask and answer questions about, for example, ‘job and profession’, ‘education’, ‘travel and mobility’, ‘relationships and sexuality’, and many more.

By posting in the right category you ensure that like-minded people will see your question and will keep the neat overview of the forum.

3: Landing Page Introduction

To go back to our homepage, click on the EnableMe logo in the upper left corner.

Always on the upper side of the page you have the search bar - a powerful search through which you can find posts within the community library of Q&As on your query. The magnifying glass icon on the top right side in the navigation is also there for your search. Within the search itself you can filter by category, time frame timeframe and author.

Below the search bar, you will see several boxes at the top of the page. These boxes contain seasonal topics and featured articles, as well as a selection of community posts of the editorial team.

Underneath these boxes, you will find the most recent discussions. Here, posts that have recently been made or commented on, will appear in order of most recent activity. There is also a sorting menu at the top of the discussions section. You can check for most recent activity, for trending or popular discussions, and announcements by the community moderators. This preselection gives you only the last 10 questions or discussions, for more threads you can click on “Discussions” in the navigation in the header.

On the right side of the discussions section you can find the ‘Quick Links’, section, which are links to the categories, to new discussions, to your bookmarked discussions, to your own discussions, your drafts, unanswered questions in the community, and to first steps if you are new to the community.

Underneath the quick links you can find the popular tags, which are automatically generated and visible for all countries. As a community member you can select from pre-defined tags and add them in each of your posts. The tags help you search on a specific topic across countries.

At the end of the page we highlight specific categories with relevant questions and answers.

4: Asking Questions, Starting Discussions, Commenting on Discussions

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When you are on the EnableMe community homepage, scroll down until you find the blue ‘Ask A Question’ button on the right handsideside of the webpage, right above the 'Quick Links'. You can press the button to open the pop-up menu. Here you can select whether to ask a question or start a new discussion. You can also find this button when you are reading other people’s posts, on the right side of the website.

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When you have posted a question and received comments, you will see that a question below the comments asks you: “Did this answer the question?” and your options to respond are “Yes” and “No”. Indicating “Yes” lets the community know that there was a good answer to your question, and will shift the answer upwards, whereas indicating “No” lets the community know that you have not found a helpful answer to your question yet. Indicating this is helpful for other community members and the community moderators.

Share on social media

You might find a specific discussion or comment really helpful and wish to share this with your personal network, so more people can learn about it. You can easily do so on Facebook by clicking the facebookFacebook-icon. You will need to connect your facebook Facebook profile to your community profile once. Then you can easily share posts on through your Facebook wallprofile.

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5: Private Messages

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We hope this short video has given you a good introduction to the community! We are excited to see you online!

6: Exploring other communities

EnableMe is active in different countries and currently offers 5 languages. If you wish to explore another language community, click on the globe icon on the top right side of the navigation and select the desired language community.

7: Social media

Do you wish to follow EnableMe on social media in order not to miss any updates? Scroll down to the footer and follow us on Instagram, Facebook in your country by clicking on the respective icons.

2) EN Foundation: Landing Page Video: Mobile

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