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Rising Together: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part VI: Nonprofit Partnerships)

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Why does it feel like “second nature” for PatientsLikeMe to create innovative partnerships with nonprofits? Nonprofit organizations are dedicated and centered around putting patients first – a concept that’s near and dear to us too. In 2010, we focused on refining our nonprofit partnerships to bring more events and programs to patients, both online and […]

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Tell The World: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part V – Marketing)

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With every new member at PatientsLikeMe, there is more data generated for research, more dialogue about individual experiences, and a more expansive support network. Additionally, with more patients we can become the world’s largest and loudest representative of the patient voice. To that end, our job in marketing is to share your stories and tell

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Tech Talk: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part IV – Tech)

ALS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Epilepsy, Fibromyalgia, HIV/AIDS, Mental Health, Multiple Sclerosis, Organ Transplants, Parkinson's Disease, Patient Experiences, Rare Diseases / By patientslikeme

The PatientsLikeMe engineering team is excited to highlight some of the work that went on behind the scenes in 2010 to make this site what it is today. We tend to write more specifically about our work on a separate blog (http://tech.patientslikeme.com), so feel free to follow our work there as well. In addition to

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Share and Compare: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part III – more R&D)

ALS, HIV/AIDS, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Patient Experiences, Research / By patientslikeme

The research team is very proud of how our team has grown in 2010 and the impact we’ve made in the academic community. In 2010 alone, PatientsLikeMe and our work were mentioned in scientific literature more than 133 times. All of this is because of what you share with us. Yesterday, we highlighted some of

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One for All: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part 1)

Thanks everyone for a great 2010. As we kick off the New Year, PatientsLikeMe would like to take a quick look back at the road we’ve traveled together this year. We think of all these improvements as laying the groundwork for even more exciting changes to come in 2011. At the start of 2010, we

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Overcoming Obstacles – Newsletter Highlight 2010

Last week, we posted highlights from our December community newsletter interviews. As we close out 2010, we want to spotlight another question asked this month – one that is relative to all members, all patients (no matter the condition). What obstacles have you faced and overcome this year? To review all of our newsletters, you

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Happy Holidays from PatientsLikeMe

PatientsLikeMe wants to wish all of our community members, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, blog readers and general company enthusiasts a very happy holiday season. Here’s a video from our leadership team to put a smile on your face. Click on image to play

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Sharing and Learning with PatientsLikeMe

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In December community newsletters (launched earlier this week), we asked some of our members to think about what they’ve shared and compared in 2010. Below are highlighted answers from each interviewee across all nine community newsletters. Thank you for your contributions. We also want to thank all of you who have contributed to the 90

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Treat Us Right: Mapping What Patients Think About Medications

One of the ways we can better understand whether you, as patients, are having a positive or negative treatment experience is to “listen” to the conversation you’re having in our forum. By understanding whether you are having a positive, negative, or neutral experience with a particular treatment you are taking or are considering taking, we

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The Patient Rules. A Discussion with the PatientsLikeMe Executives

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We recently sat down with our executive team here at PatientsLikeMe in our first-ever roundtable-format podcast. In this PatientsLikeMeOnCallTM interview, we ask Co-founders Ben and Jamie Heywood, Chief Marketing Officer David S. Williams III, and R&D Director Paul Wicks PhD to discuss why our recent series themes are so important to the history and future

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