Driving to work this morning I had a thought about how to “perk” up USMS. My friend belongs to this online diet club --Ediets or something. I watched her log on to her exercise and she has a running log of what she has done for her workouts, calories, food intake, message/support boards, professional help/support online chats etc.
What do you think about applying these ideas to USMS? Have a work out section with programmed swimming workouts each week (yes I realize we have this at the message boards too). We could just personalized into a individual home page of sorts? A sports nutrition section, a time conversion section, a meet section, all centralized off a USMS personal home page and we could track our progress, goals etc. Take all the great stuff that is scattered around the message boards and web site(s) and streamline all the options .
OK Ediets, just with swimming plugged in for weight loss…
The Big question is would you pay USMS extra for something like this? --Hey, I'm an idea lady, let the assistant web master handle the technical! LOL!
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I never ment to leave the impression I would do this, I was just thinking of applying technology or a format to the USMS that I had seen before. US Swimming I think has something simular where you can sign up and the age group swimmer can hook their times/local membership to the national web site. It just looked cool and beign able to track training, workouts, personal times and set goals on one page seemed like a cool idea...
Again let the person takeing the assistant web master position think of how to pull it off!
I never ment to leave the impression I would do this, I was just thinking of applying technology or a format to the USMS that I had seen before. US Swimming I think has something simular where you can sign up and the age group swimmer can hook their times/local membership to the national web site. It just looked cool and beign able to track training, workouts, personal times and set goals on one page seemed like a cool idea...
Again let the person takeing the assistant web master position think of how to pull it off!
