BodySpace Official News Blog

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Here’s a news release from our BodySpace Product Owner, Brandon Poe:

“Hello Everyone,

Over the last 90 days we have seen a lot of changes at Bodybuilding.com. As of today, we have hired roughly 20 additional talented individuals in our IT Development department to ensure that 2009 is the most productive year in our history!  In our BodySpace Community Team alone we have 6 new developers: Patrick, Eleazar, Manuel, Gene, Arthur, Jane and me, the Product Owner.

RECENT DEPLOYMENTS AND FEATURES:

Sprint objective: BodyGroups v1
Sprint Start Date:  11/18/08
Sprint End Date 12/18/08
http://groups.bodybuilding.com/

In the month of December we released BodyGroups version #1. This feature was the first sprint we completed and our first win as a team. BodyGroups are a great online support system for BodySpace members with common goals to come together and help each other reach success.

But keep in mind that v1 of anything is simply that. It works and looks good, but still needs a lot of new features that will make it the best! With that being said, in our next sprint (starting 02/18/09) we will be developing a Groups Mini Forum where all BodyGroup members will be connected and able to communicate to each other to ensure success and collaboration.

Sprint objective: My BB.com v1
Sprint Start Date: 12/19/08
Sprint End Date: 01/19/09
http://my.bodybuilding.com/

We have always had a My BB.com, but it has not been as intuitive or useful as we would have liked for our BodySpace members. So we grabbed a sheet of paper, made some notes and came up with the new Mack Daddy My BB.com which includes the first ever Fitness Social News Feed, similar to the well known Facebook model that most of us love and use.

Now you can see what all your BodySpace friends are doing in their fitness lives and what needs to be done in yours! This is your Bodybuilding.com dashboard, so it’s time to get familiar with it if you haven’t already.

You will also find that you have a Profile Social News Feed located on your BodySpace Profile. This allows all your friends and visitors to see what you are doing in your fitness life. If you have no feed items, then you better get started… BodySpace members are waiting to help you reach your health and fitness goals!

We have plans greater than your wildest dreams coming to BodySpace in 2009. I will be updating you every two weeks on which features are being released. So be looking this next Tuesday (02/17/09) for the next mind blowing feature. Thanks for all your support and insight into making this Community the best place on the Web!"

Two BodySpace members were recently chosen to be spokesmodels for BodySpace at upcoming events such as the 2009 Arnold Classic and the 2009 Olympia Weekend.

Allison Ethier (ALLISONETHIER) and Sean Harley (IThinkFit) were chosen from among 400+ BodySpace members competing in the Iron Man Magazine/BodySpace Spokesmodel Search!

Real-time voting during the 2009 Iron Man Pro webcast helped determine the winners - so a HUGE “thank you!” to everyone who cast their votes online!  Here are your new BodySpace spokesmodels for 2009:

Additional photos and the video replay from round #5 of the competition are available on Bodybuilding.com!

Stop by their profiles and give them a hearty congratulations!