HeiaHeia team blog

We’re excited to tell you that we have just launched the corporate wellbeing version of HeiaHeia! The idea in short is that the current HeiaHeia is a “me” view – showing your own activities and your personal friends’ activities. The corporate version is a “we” view – showing an organization’s common targets and members (colleagues) in that organization, as well as supporting e.g. a company’s hobby clubs. You can navigate between the “me” and “we” views with one click, the same training log is utilized in both views. Your privacy settings are naturally applied in both views.

The corporate version is a commercial product, which we license with a “Software as a Service” model, i.e. we run a corporate branded service for customer companies. This way, the customer companies get to enjoy a cutting edge web service and all its updates with minimal hassle and maximal cost efficiency.

We’ve tested the concept with four companies from different industries (environmental consulting, IT, retail/logistics, public sector). The key findings from these pilots were that our casual wellbeing approach does appeal to people with different activity levels, and that an atmosphere of positive cheering works also in corporate environments (the aggregate statistics showed great community achievements). In an example company, 90% of activated users actually log their activities, contribute to common goals, and cheer each other. The amount of physical activity per week per person has clearly grown during our pilot period. The top “sports” in this company are very casual – i.e. HeiaHeia has encouraged people to do more everyday activities like walking to work. As always, “everything counts” – we think all physical activity is good and worth cheering!

The launch of the corporate version has no impact on the users of the consumer version of HeiaHeia.com – we’ll continue developing it further as we’ve done so far and it continues to be a free of charge service for the users.

For more information on the corporate version, please contact us at corporate@heiaheia.com

This post in Finnish / Tämä blogikirjoitus Suomeksi.

A bit over a million exercises were logged in HeiaHeia.com during 2010.

2011 has started with explosive growth. New Year’s resolutions, a new release of the service, and growth in new corners of the world have taken place simultaneously: 317646 exercises were logged during January, with a 1600% user growth compared to January 2010!

Keep up the good work with your training & cheering also in February!

We’ve received a lot of valuable feedback lately – please keep it coming. We’ll keep on improving the service release by release…

España es el país donde hemos crecido más rápidamente este año. Debido a la gran cantidad de peticiones y ofertas de traducir HeiaHeia al Español decidimos darle alta prioridad a este idioma – y ahora está listo. Sólo debes hacer click en “Español” en la parte inferior de nuestra página de entrada para cambiar el idioma en la configuración de tu cuenta y comenzar a usar HeiaHeia en Español.

Si encuentras textos que no están traducidos correctamente, por favor ponte en contacto con nosotros.

Gracias a Julio por su ayduda con la traducción!

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The same in English:

HeiaHeia.com now available in Spanish!

Spain has been our fastest growing country during this year. Due to a flood of requests and offers to translate HeiaHeia into Spanish, we decided to put this on a fast track – and here we are! Just click Espanol on the footer of the login page or switch “language” from your account settings to start using HeiaHeia in Spanish.

If you find any missing text strings, funny or misleading expressions, please let us know!

Big thanks to Julio for helping us out with the localization!

Image from www.oleole.com

Yesterday’s release was a success: we broke our daily records in new users, server load and exercises logged during yesterday! We’re still settling login issues for some of you, but please be patient here, everybody should be up & running soon.

The most popular feedback topic after yesterday’s release was the weight log. Thanks for all the comments! The overall sentiment was that the new implementation is not good enough as it is – so let’s make it better!

We wanted to achieve three things with the weight log update: 1) to remove the actual weight figure from the home page (popular request – having the figure there prevented people from sharing their screen) 2) to make the log accessible & editable without having to make an entry 3) to create a clear visual style we can start building on. The current graph is quite minimalistic and the labeling doesn’t support all use cases, but it’s straight-forward now to develop the weight log further, to do more and richer things with your weight data.

So please send us any ideas or comments you might have on the weight log to help us make it rock!

Iltalehti.fi, the largest news website in Finland, published a great piece on the Top 20 sports in Finland in 2010 – based on HeiaHeia’s statistics. In a related article, Iltalehti covered our growth in 2010, e.g. having users in 134 different countries and over 30 000 users in our native Finland.

Here’s the Top 20 list in English:

1. Cycling
2. Walking
3. Gym
4. Running
5. Walking the dog
6. Stretching
7. Swimming
8. Jogging
9. Bodypump
10. Floorball
11. Zumba
12. Indoor cycling
13. Cross-country skiing
14. Dancing
15. Strength training
16. Cleaning
17. Jumppa (a casual Finnish term for aerobics type of activities)
18. Cross training
19. Kettlebell
20. Badminton

HeiaHeia.com turns one year today, 21st Dec 2010! Happy anniversary to everybody from the team!

The roundest number available for celebrating this is the number of exercises logged in HeiaHeia, which will cross 1 000 000 in the coming days. We’re currently running at 989 647…

A couple of juicy picks from the list of most popular activities during last year:

#1 Cycling: 112290 exercises logged
#2 Walking: 101882
#3 Running: 101384
#4 Gym: 93550
#5 Walking the dog: 32926

#9 Bodypump: 20516
#11 Zumba: 16047
#13 Dancing: 14383
#16 Cleaning: 11139
#20 Badminton: 8716

Snow shoveling didn’t make it to the Top 20 despite the recent heroics of users all over the Northern Hemisphere. ; )

PS. We’re in the final meters of polishing our biggest release since last December, so stay tuned for something we are truly excited about…

We have a bug in HeiaHeia’s Facebook app related to sharing exercises from HeiaHeia to Facebook. The most common root cause seems to be changing your FB password, which disables sharing.

Unfortunately, we’re not able to fix this properly right now, as we want to concentrate on getting our Xmas release out first.

BUT: if your are affected, there are two things you can do: 1) For the DIY folks: remove and reinstall our FB app 2) For the rest: we can fix the problem manually for you. Just send us an email at heia(at)heiaheia.com (ideally from the feedback box inside HeiaHeia), and we’ll fix it for you.

Thanks for your patience with this!

EDIT: If nothing else helps – go to http://apps.facebook.com/heiaheia and check that it is a) installed b) all permissions are granted.