Add a Food Enhancement - Spelling Suggestions

Monday, September 21, 2009

Hi everyone

We launched an enhancement to our "Add a Food" food search page last week. We now run a spell check for every food search, and if we believe the result is wrong give some small text saying "Did you mean...". For example if you search for "mayonaise" we will say "did you mean mayonnaise". You can then click on the new highlighted word to re-run your search.

We hope this makes our food search even easier to use. Please reply below if you have any issues or problems, thanks!

Dave H.
SparkPeople.com

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SparkPeople Overview & Convention Footage

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Watch Chris "SparkGuy" Downie (SparkPeople Founder/CEO), Coach Nicole, and others give an overview about SparkPeople from the first-ever member convention in San Diego. This exciting 10-minute video includes interviews with several amazing SparkPeople success stories and is a great motivator!

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30 New Exercise Demos, Including Balance Board Ideas

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Hi everyone!

We wanted to let you know that we've added 30 new demos to our expansive exercise library! Most of these feature an inflatable balance board, which is an inexpensive and versatile fitness product that we also sell in our SparkPeople Store. For those of you who purchased it already, and those who thought about it but weren't sure how to use it, you can refer to these demos for ideas. If you have a different balance board at home or at the gym, you can still follow the majority of these exercises!

You'll find most of these exercises in the core (abs) exercises section, but you can also use a balance board for lower body exercises (such as lunges) and upper body exercises (like several versions of pushups). We hope you like what you see—including our new male "model," Tim—a long-time SparkPeople employee!

To easily brose through all of the balance board exercises, just search at the top of the site for "balance board exercise" and you'll find the entire list!

We've also added a few demos using an ab wheel (here's an example), which you'll find in the Core Exercise Demos section, too. This is a common piece of equipment that many people have at home and at the gym.

Coming soon, our experts are going to create full workouts using these new balance board demos. We also have more exercise demos using other pieces of small equipment, such as medicine balls and foam rollers coming your way very soon!

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New page to show popular blog posts

Friday, August 28, 2009

Hi everyone

Members have told us how much they love blogs, both writing their own and reading inspirational entries from other members. So we created a new page to show "Popular Blog Posts." This shows posts from the past few days that have received a lot of comments and "I Liked This" votes.

You can reach this page by clicking on the Community Home tab, then clicking the "Explore More Great Blog Posts" link in the Blogs section of the page. You can also follow the link below:

sparkpeople.com/mypage_popular_blogs.asp

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Changes to Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Hi everyone

SparkPeople has revised its Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy in order to make these policies consistent with our member-focused practices. We are working hard to build a grassroots movement that will help millions for people improve their health and reach amazing goals. Member success stories and testimonials are extremely motivational and help spread the spark. SparkPeople has tremendous respect for our members and therefore we want to be clear about how member information might be re-published.

The main changes are as follows:
1) SparkPeople removed the terms allowing us to share personally identifiable information that you enter in program setup or tracking with 3rd parties. SparkPeople has not ever shared/sold member personal identifiable information, but we wanted to make this an official policy.
2) SparkPeople will not republish user-generated content from private SparkTeams. We have never published content from private Teams, but we wanted to include this in our policy as a reply to member questions.
3) SparkPeople does not distribute user-generated content to third parties that contains member personal identifiable information without permission. Again we have never published user content containing personal information without permission, but wanted to make this an official policy.
4) SparkPeople does aggregate member information such as pounds lost and exercise minutes, so we need to have the ability to collect this data. This is helpful for us to do things like form partnerships with other companies.

Please post a comment with any questions, thanks!

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