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Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · April 11, 2008
  • 46 recommendations
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

Support your group and raise awareness with badges

Walter
  • By Walter · June 20, 2008
  • 19 recommendations
  • Hi everyone. We added a new feature today that you can use to support your groups and the organizations that sponsor them, and get the word out about the causes that are important to you. If you visit ...

New feature - See what you've replied to

Walter
  • By Walter · April 25, 2008
  • 17 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We just added a feature that many of you have requested - a list of all of the posts that you have replied to. To get to your list, all you need to do is: 1. Sign in 2. Click "Me" in the ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · May 23, 2008
  • 14 recommendations
  • Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · March 13, 2008
  • 14 recommendations
  • Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...

Welcome!

Brian
  • By Brian · March 13, 2008
  • 12 recommendations
  • I am pleased to present Inspire 2.0 -- the result of many months of fun and hard work. We have made numerous improvements to your community, the vast majority of which are ideas that came from you! We ...

New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · June 28, 2008
  • 10 recommendations
  • I am pleased to announce that we have updated Inspire to support video. You can now share a video of yourself, videos that you find inspirational or informative, and more. I've included one of myself ...

Changes that you have requested are on the way

Beth
  • By Beth · March 28, 2008
  • 9 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We've been hard at work on many of the great suggestions that you've sent us. This week we've been cooking up some changes to the group home page, and hope to make them public very soon ...

New feature - additional reply notifications

Walter
  • By Walter · May 5, 2008
  • 8 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We just added a new feature to help you follow the conversations that you are participating in. You will now get a notification whenever someone replies directly to one of your replies ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · August 27, 2008
  • 7 recommendations
  • At Inspire, we think about privacy all the time. Virtually every web site has a privacy policy; you can read ours here: http://www.inspire.com/about/privacy/. But simply following the letter of a privacy ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · June 1, 2008
  • 7 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · June 10, 2008
  • 6 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

New feature - profile completeness gauge

Tasha
  • By Tasha · June 12, 2008
  • 5 recommendations
  • Greetings from TeamInspire! I'm your friendly neighborhood designer, here to tell you about some new features. You might notice that today we revamped your member homepage - https://www.inspire.com/member-home.pl ...

People are always staring at me- Is it my disability or my good looks?

tammysci
  • By tammysci · September 26, 2008
  • 4 recommendations
  • Have you ever noticed that when you are in a wheelchair, people just stop and stare? I always notice people staring at me when I am taking apart my wheelchair and putting it in my car. I also notice it ...

Doctors know Best!!!!

Dee8
  • By Dee8 · June 4, 2008
  • 4 recommendations
  • My husband was diagnosed with ALS in 2006. His progression is slow. We recently moved and had to deal with finding new doctor. My fustration is dealing with idiots because he can still move his arms and ...

TIRED OF FIGHTING FOR MY RIGHTS FOR WHEELCHAIR ACCESS!

tammysci
  • By tammysci · September 24, 2008
  • 3 recommendations
  • Does anyone ever get tired of fighting for your rights that we are entitled to, for wheelchair access to public places? I know this is just one of many things that the American with Disabilities Act covers ...

Handicap Parking Abusers; Part 1- Excuses, Excuses, Excuses

tammysci
  • By tammysci · October 8, 2008
  • 2 recommendations
  • I have read many different blogs from people with various disabilities about their frustrations with people who abuse handicap parking. I have wanted to start a handicap parking enforcement program for ...

Do you ever feel like the only female in a wheelchair?

tammysci
  • By tammysci · October 6, 2008
  • 2 recommendations
  • When I was first injured, it took 6 months for me to connect with another female in a wheelchair to ask her women related issues about spinal cord injury. This happens to a lot to newly injured women ...

Tails and Toes- How many do I have to run over in my wheelchair?

tammysci
  • By tammysci · September 30, 2008
  • 2 recommendations
  • For years I have always tried so hard to be very careful about not running over people’s feet in my wheelchair, especially their toes. Heck, if it happens, I will always feel bad. I feel like I need to ...

**Updated** System maintenance: Tuesday June 10th, 5 am - 7 am Eastern

Walter
  • By Walter · June 4, 2008
  • 2 recommendations
  • ** Updated ** Due to power outages caused by storms in the Washington, DC area, we need to postpone this maintenance until Tuesday June 10th, from 5 am to 7 am. Thanks for your patience. ** Updated ...

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