OnHealthy
Category

Technology

Improvements to Rally Round

By | News, Technology | No Comments

Deep breath. We’ve just released an update to Rally Round. We now give you the option to have support tasks done by more than one person. To enable this feature select “Allow multiple people to do this” when setting up a new task. This should be really helpful for things like: “Play cards with Mary on Tuesday evening. Start 7pm”, or “Spend Saturday morning cleaning up John’s garden”. Other changes include: Noticeboard has been replaced by 2 new sections called Notes and Chats. There is now an option available in Account details section for users to “share my email address and phone number with other members of this network”. By…

Read More

Positive Minds – Socialising through technology

By | Care, News, Psychology, Social, Technology | No Comments

We have something a little bit different for our first blog of the New Year. We are really pleased to share news of a successful lottery funding application for a super mental health organisation in Bradford. Rally Round will be included as part of the fantastic activity delivered under the new scheme, which focuses on improving ‘connectivity’ for older people in the District. The Chair of Positive Minds, Marilyn Foster, has worked tirelessly for many years raising awareness about depression and other mental health concerns for older people. She heads up a consortium of like-minded groups and charities that together form Positive Minds. The project was based on research showing…

Read More

New website design is live

By | News, Technology | No Comments

Happy New Year. I hope 2017 will be a great year for you. We’ve been working on the new site design on and off for a few months and the new design went live just before Xmas. We’ve added more and better imagery and text on the homepage. We’ve also provided much more information via some secondary pages, including How Rally Round Works, Real Life Stories and and of course this blog section. I hope you like the changes. Please do leave some feedback. I’m sure we can make it even better.

Read More

Take control of technology

By | Social, Technology | No Comments

We are surrounded by technology, there is virtually nothing you cannot now do online… Well that is unless you can’t get online. Many people are still identifying barriers to their using technology – some valid, some myths, some nonsense – but why shouldn’t everyone be given the confidence and skills to make IT work for them. Cost, Safety/Security and Age can all be defended. Point blank refusal to learn (in the case of my step-father) is harder to challenge but the most worrying of all has to be – ‘I don’t need it’. There are too many things to list in life that we ‘don’t need’, that we have ‘managed…

Read More