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I need your feedback – Health Habits & Social Networking

November 22nd, 2009

Every week, I get a bunch of emails from readers.

And every week, I am blown away by the quality and depth of your questions, comments, observations and criticisms.

And, as much as I enjoy reading those emails, I think it’s a shame that the rest of the Health Habits readers don’t get to join in the discussion. I think that we could get much more out of Health Habits if there was more interaction between all of us.

Because of this, I have been looking at ways of  making Health Habits more “social”.

Here’s what I am thinking of doing:

  1. Setting up a facebook page/group page for Health Habits
  2. Setting up a twitter group for Health Habits (currently 75 people have added me to their list)
  3. Setting up a separate community site using Ning or SocialGo
  4. Or testing out this new Wordpress plugin that would allow us to set up a social network right on the blog.

All of these approaches have their pluses and minuses.

So, I would appreciate your feedback:

  • Is this a good idea or not?
  • Which social networking tool do you think is best?
  • Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Doug

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Happy Independence Day

July 4th, 2009

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Happy Independence Day America!!!

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Happy Canada Day

July 1st, 2009

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Happy 142nd birthday Canada!!!

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Sorry for going AWOL

June 24th, 2009

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Sorry for the disappearing act folks…it’s been a week since my last real post.

Life just got waaayyy too crazy.

Anyway, I will be back tomorrow with a new post.

Hopefully the wait will be worth it.

Doug

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What Can Health Habits Do For You?

January 23rd, 2009

Dear Health Habits Readers;

I need your feedback.

I am planning some changes to the design of Health Habits. But before I go ahead and pay some very expensive web guru to redesign my little corner of the internet, I thought it might be a good idea to check with you guys.

  • What do you like about Health Habits?
  • What do you hate?
  • Which type of articles do you enjoy reading?
  • Which do you skip?
  • Are there any features of other health blogs that you like that you think I should add?
  • What other health blogs kick my butt?
  • What’s the best health blog out there and why?

Keep in mind that if Wordpress wasn’t so darn easy to use, I would never have been able to create this blog in the first place. I know NOTHING about web design.

What I do want to add is the following:

  • Exercise videos with commentary to show you what’s right and what’s wrong
  • Workout videos that you will be able to download to a portable video player. That way, instead of buying another crappy fitness magazine, you can take one of my videos with you to the gym.
  • Downloadable ebooks on training & nutrition.
  • and hopefully I can convince the Healthy Irishman to provide videos for some of his recipes.

So, in conclusion, I would really appreciate your feedback. And be merciless.

Thanks in advance

DR

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