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CommonGround

Co-produced Online Peer Support and Psychoeducation for People Living with Long-Term Physical Health Conditions

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“Are you engaged?” How do we measure user engagement on CommonGround?

In the second of their blogs on engagement, Hannah Jones and Grace Lavelle explore further the idea of engagement in online communities in relation to CommonGround, a peer support community for people living with long-term conditions. What is the best way to measure engagement appropriately for this unique project?

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CommonGround: avoiding tumbleweeds in the community

Hannah Jones and Grace Lavelle from the CommonGround project reflect on the idea of engagement in online spaces and how it applies to CommonGround’s online peer support community for people with long term conditions. They discuss the questions: what is ‘engagement’ in online communities and what kind of engagement do we hope to observe on CommonGround?