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Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · April 11, 2008
  • 32 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
  • 18 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
  • 16 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
  • 11 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 ...

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 ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · Yesterday at 2:40 pm
  • 5 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 ...

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 ...

Doctors know Best!!!!

Dee8
  • By Dee8 · June 4, 2008
  • 3 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 ...

**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 ...

I Just Found Out

Chuck1106
  • By Chuck1106 · June 17, 2008
  • 1 recommendation
  • I was just diagnosed with ALS on Wednesday June 11, 2008. I had to tell my sons on Father's Day, which was not fun!! My wife has been tremendous...so protective , sometimes too protective. I do not know ...

breath

greensmile
  • By greensmile · March 21, 2008
  • 1 recommendation
  • hello and happy purim and happy easter.my vent was upgraded to the top with total back-up in every aspect.now i'm on the vent just under 24 hrs per day as compared to 20 up till now.still working but ...

Urge Congress to Join Our Fight for a Treatment!

AdvocacyDepartment
  • By AdvocacyDepartment · March 10, 2008
  • 1 recommendation
  • Continue Funding for the Peer Reviewed ALS Research Program at the Department of Defense We need your help today to continue critical ALS research taking place at the Department of Defense. Please ask ...

ALS e-communities

rknt50c
  • By rknt50c · May 24, 2007
  • 1 recommendation
  • Someone recently asked me to put together a list of the ALS message board sites that I was aware of. I did so and added some editorial comments which are my personal opinions only. I share them here in ...

Filing For VA Compensation

smith48327
  • By smith48327 · November 23, 2006
  • 1 recommendation
  • I have had a few respondents from WW II, Korea and Vietnam eras ask if it's worth applying for benefits, since ALS isn't considered a service-connected disability by the DVA. The answer to the question ...

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