Fitness Community Updates: Blog Editor, Google Ping, Personal Trainer Listing, and more
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We’ve added more updates in the past few weeks, here’s a heads up on what they are.
1. Blog HTML Editor - You can edit your blogs to bold and italicize words, create text hyperlinks, and insert additional images.
2. Automatic Google Ping – Now when you submit your blog, we automatically ping google to let the crawler know you’ve made a post.
3. Tag FitConnect Content – Our newest feature allows you to tag relative content to your blogs, fitclips, and groups. For example, if you create a several low carb recipes and then write a blog about low carb diets, you can tag the recipes to your blog. Now readers will see more of your content.
4. Online / Offline Notification – At the top right corner of everyone’s profile is an icon letting you know whether the user is online or not. If it is blue, the user is online – if it is grey, the user is offline.
5. Browse Online Members - Find out who's online at the moment by sorting our people browse feature.
6. Printable Recipes – Now you can print out your favorite healthy recipes on a printer friendly formatted page.
7. RSS Feed for Groups – Subscribe to your Groups to has an RSS feed of newly created fitness groups.
8. Personal Trainer Listing for Gyms – Fitness Center Administrators may now list personal trainers and other staff members that work at their gym. A great way for members to get to know their staff and become more involved in their gym’s community.
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on 5/19/2008
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FitConnect featured as a Killer Startup!
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Today, FitConnect was featured on killerstartups.com, a site that reviews new web companies that they feel have potential to make it big. What did they think about our site? "If you are interested in getting fit, FitConnect.com is a great community to join. FitConnect.com caters to people in any type of shape, not just body builders or people that live at the gym" - Killerstartups.com
They went on to mention, "FitConnect.com has fitness advice for everyone and it is a great way to stay motivated about taking care of your body. You can join a fitness center by searching for one on the site and you can make friends that might even be able to train with you. Join a social community that will help you be as fit as you can be, join FitConnect.com."
Always nice to get some media attention. You can view the full article here
Be sure to vote for us!
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on 3/4/2008
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It's ok to Brag
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One of the primary themes of our site is that it's ok to brag. No... Our goal is not to have everyone on our site become cocky and obnoxious, but instead we want to create an environment where people can be proud of their weight loss / muscle gaining accomplishments. We created the Brag feature as a tool for motivation and encouragement, and hope it will support our positive atmosphere.
How do you send a brag?
You can tell someone "it's ok to brag" about their Profile, Pictures, and Blog, by clicking the button that's located at the top of the respective page that says, "It's ok to brag!"
Who Deserves a brag?
1. Anyone who you notice is dedicated toward achieving their goal
2. A friend (fitster) who needs some encouragement
3. Anyone that you believe deserves bragging rights for their accomplishments
Why send a brag?
By sending a brag, you're making the other person feel better about themselves. Many people struggle while trying to get in shape and every little bit of encouragement helps. It's also a good way to meet people.
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on 1/29/2008
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FitConnect Points and Ranking System
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On the top right of every user's profile, you will notice a "Stats Section", which includes your FitConnect Point Total and corresponding User Rank.
We have setup a hidden point system that gives users points each time they do something on the site. Points vary based on the activity and how well your posted content is reviewed by others.
Posting quality tips, recipes, blogs, etc., can drastically improve your ranking as users save, review, and sync to your posted content. A blog entry that becomes popular, or a tip or recipe that receives positive reviews will accumulate more points than posting many, less popular items.
Keep in mind that you don't have to be a fitness expert to improve your ranking. Points are also awarded for things such as acquiring friends, rating tips and recipes, posting comments, sending/receiving brags, creating groups, and basically anything else that you do on FitConnect. Example: Members are awarded 15 points when they join their local fitness center's FitCommunity.
Points and Ranking are updated at 9:00 PM, EST.
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on 1/16/2008
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Welcome to FitConnect
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Welcome to FitConnect, an online social medium with a core focus on health & fitness. We started this site in order to provide a one-stop answer to all of your fitness needs, including the ability to share your own knowledge and advice. People with varying interest levels in fitness can benefit from using our site. While a personal trainer may want to build credibility and exposure by posting various tips, recipes, blog entries, and more, beginners may choose to browse this information and submit their feedback. Some will simply use our site to connect with their local fitness center, or perhaps join a different community that seems more appealing. In order to make the best of your FitConnect experience, we recommend you add your friends to your network.
Currently, we are in beta mode, which means that our site is a work in progress. In the near future we will be adding many features in order to enhance your FitConnect experience. If you'd like to learn more about FitConnect, click here. If you have any feedback, ideas, or find a bug in the site, please let us know.
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on 1/14/2008
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Global Mode vs Sync Mode
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When browsing FitConnect, you will have the choice of using Global Mode or Sync Mode. By default, you are in Global Mode, but you can switch back and forth on any of the section home pages. You can also change your default mode in your account settings.
Global Mode: This mode will show you content (i.e. tips, recipes, blogs) from ALL FitConnect members
Sync Mode: This mode will only show you content (ie: tips, recipes, blogs, etc) from users you have "Synced" to.
A "Sync" is similar to a subscription, allowing you to receive updates on another user's Blogs, Pictures, Recipes, Tips, and Groups. When you add some as a "Fitster" (friend), you are, by default, automatically synced to that user. This is also something you can change in your account settings. The best thing about Syncs is that it's anonymous, so you can sync to someone's content and they won't even know.
To sum it all up, Sync mode allows you to filter out all the content on FitConnect that you don't feel like seeing.
Please post any questions, comments, ideas about Sync mode below.
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on 1/14/2008
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20.4
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