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What - Inspire is a place where you can connect with people who share your health concerns and find information and advice in groups sponsored by organizations you know and trust.
Why - As a member you can use Inspire to let friends and family know how you're doing, contact others who share your health concerns, receive personalized updates and information about participating in surveys and clinical trials, and more.
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Why are we here?
- By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
- 55 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
- By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
- 33 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 ...
John Wayne is Dead and Oprah is Busy
- By theGardener · Posted August 22, 2007
- 26 recommendations
- John Wayne is Dead and Oprah is Busy Just a forewarning, I’m feeling really cynical today. I would like to say that I’m one of those folks that flutter around with gossamer wings; ever positive; ever ...
Welcome from TeamInspire!
- By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
- 25 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 ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- 23 recommendations
- Hello everyone, We're writing to let you know about a great new feature we'll be adding to Inspire in the very near future: guestbooks. This is a feature that many of you have requested, and we're very ...
New feature - See what you've replied to
- By Walter · Posted April 25, 2008
- 21 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
- By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
- 19 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 ...
"Baby, the Cat is Vibrating!"
- By theGardener · Posted January 13, 2009
- 18 recommendations
- "Baby, the Cat is Vibrating!" As most of you will have noted from my signature sign off, my wife and I entertain two dogs, a cat and, of course, my Sarcoidosis. I originally phrased it like that to show ...
New feature: video!
- By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
- 15 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 ...
Welcome!
- By Brian · Posted March 13, 2008
- 13 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 ...
Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
- 12 recommendations
- We're happy to announce that you can now stay in touch with what's happening at Inspire by following us on both Twitter and Facebook. While Inspire communities are still the best places to connect with ...
The Sarcoidosis Fairy Tale Reader
- By theGardener · Posted January 28, 2009
- 12 recommendations
- The Sarcoidosis Fairy Tale Reader The Sarkie Princess and the Frog Once upon a time there was a beautiful young Princess, but all she could do was sit by the babbling brook and cough her brains out from ...
CRAP for a CURE!
- By theGardener · Posted February 19, 2009
- 11 recommendations
- CRAP for a CURE Now this is cool. This is what happens when Snarky Sarkies get motivated. Our good friend and fellow Snarky Sarkie, Dave Rojo, from the sovereign country of New Jersey, came up with this ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- 10 recommendations
- Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...
“Give us this day, our daily Preds”
- By theGardener · Posted January 22, 2009
- 9 recommendations
- Predni-ZONE“Give us this day, our daily Preds” If there is one unequivocal truism that I have learned about Sarcoidosis, it is that the disease is rarely seen in public without its conjoined evil twin ...
New group in Inspire: The National Body Challenge
- By Brian · Posted December 4, 2008
- 9 recommendations
- I am pleased to announce that today we added a new group to Inspire: The National Body Challenge. nationalbodychallenge We created this group in partnership with Discovery Health. The group focuses on ...
New feature - profile completeness gauge
- By Tasha · Posted June 12, 2008
- 9 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 ...
Changes that you have requested are on the way
- By Beth · Posted 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 ...
Screaming Bloody Murder in the Streets and other Medical Advances.
- By theGardener · Posted March 27, 2009
- 8 recommendations
- (April is National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month) We Americans are a verbose lot, especially in large perturbed groups when we smell an outrageous injustice. Just ask any AIG executive hiding under a manhole ...
Disjointed Thoughts VI
- By theGardener · Posted February 27, 2009
- 8 recommendations
- Disjointed Thoughts VI For the sixth time, I shall endeavor to dislodge the gritty biddies of my cerebral spackle; scraped, usurped, and shucked from the colon walls of my seething skull oyster; all unabashedly ...
