Movescount.com Features Update

Award-winning Movescount.com, powered by Suunto, is the first and only sporting social network that allows you to track your workouts and interact with other athletes. We are dedicated to making the site better and better every day and we think the following updates will make the site better than ever.

Greatest Moves
If you're an active sports person, you may have noticed that your coolest Moves may not be visible in your public profile for quite as long as you'd like. Not anymore! Now you can select up to five Moves per year that you can highlight in your profile. It can be a marathon run or a nice hike up in the mountains with a lot of photos, whatever you choose! You are able to name each great Move, which are then shown with their notes, shouts and thumbs in your public profile.



Easy Move adding
You can now add Moves more quickly directly on your scoreboard. This is a small change but should make a big difference!



Tag cloud
As you already know, you can add tags to your Moves. Now you can search for Moves based on these tags. This way, you can easily find all the Moves you have done in your favorite climbing place, with your best friend or with specific gear. The options are limitless!



Embed top 10 group members
Want to promote your team in your blog or website? Now you can use the '10 most active members current month' element on another website. It's just as simple as adding a Youtube video on another website. You could add the ten most active members list to your blog, fitness club homepage or team's own website. We will add similar functionality for individual members during the next month so soon you'll be able to promote your idol or, even better, yourself!



Front page
The front page has been updated as well. Now, as you are enter the site, you will see the most liked members, moves, routes and groups. Here you are able to click any of these and get a better idea of what is happening in your area.



Other improvements
The .kml route uploads have been made more robust and Moveslink has been enhanced to handle exceptional cases better. The training programs are now also visible in the calendar, so you are able quickly see what was planned for each day.


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Movescount.com wins Web Association Web Award

Even though Movescount.com, powered by Suunto, has only been around for a short time, it has been making waves among the sporting and social networking worlds. We are thrilled that all our hard work is paying off and Movescount.com was honored with the “Sports Standard of Excellence” Award by Web Marketing Association in its 14^th annual international Web Award Competition. Awards are given to talented individual and team efforts in creating outstanding website development and generate internet marketing exposure for the award winning website. More from the press release:

Movescount.com excelled in categories innovation, content, interactivity and technology. Judges commented the community: “A great sport community website with lots of interesting things to do. Fantastic”.

“The award is great recognition for the Movescount.com, which has been developed in three months from the launch into one of the most inspiring sports solutions in the digital world. The latest development, the innovative social training plan tool, has shown the power of our enthusiastic community. We are still warming up in our exciting hike to our long term vision”, says Janne Kallio, Suunto Digital Marketing Manager.

The Web Marketing Association was founded in 1997 to help set a high standard for Internet marketing and development of the best websites on the World Wide Web. The organization is made up of Internet marketing, online advertising, PR, and top web site design professionals who share an interest in improving the quality of online advertising, internet marketing, and website promotion.

This is very exciting for Movescount.com to be honored like this especially since the site is still so new. We are looking forward to continuing our dedication to bringing the sporting community together with new advances and developments in our site every day.

To join Movescount.com click here.

Rebecca Rusch is on Movescount and Loving It

Suunto’s Rebecca Rusch has recently joined Movescount.com and couldn’t be happier. The Three-time 24hr Solo World Mountain Bike Champion and Leadville 100 Trail Women's Champion says--

“I LOVE Movescount. I’m encouraged to use it more often [than Training Manager] because it’s so easy. I am also sharing it with my coach and he loves it too.”

If you aren’t familiar with Movescount, read from the press release below.

“Movescount.com is Suunto’s next step in the consumer’s training journey,” says Suunto President Mikko Moilanen. “We wanted to create a unique place that was open to everyone, whether you’re a Suunto fan or just someone who enjoys sports. It’s all about sharing, exploring and enjoying our everyday sport experiences.”

Incorporating social networking, Movescount.com offers a place for like-minded active individuals to share their stories. Members can swap experiences, join groups, post tips and share training routes. With a click, members can share their Moves through other social networking sites such as Digg, Facebook and Twitter. They can enhance their personal profiles by posting routes using Google Maps, adding images of their adventures from their own Flickr account and scenic or exciting videos from YouTube. Movescount.com members can follow the progress of their friends, running partners and favorite athletes.

A simple online Sports Diary allows users to chart their Moves each day – managing runs, swims, and bike rides. Movescount.com will generate an overview of each month’s activities to measure where adjustments in exercise should be made. Never before has an online sports community given the user such detailed analysis of every Move through easy-to-understand graphs and charts. Members can clearly see how many calories they’ve burned in the last workout, week or month; what their maximum heart-rate was on that challenging run; their EPOC (excess post-exercise oxygen consumption), speed and distance.

Compatible with both Mac and PCs, Movescount.com is available to members with and without Suunto devices. Compatible Suunto devices include the t3, t4, t6, memory belt and X10. There is also an option to transfer old training data from Training Manager and Training Manager Lite. The website will be compatible with the new Suunto M-Series M4 and M5.

To follow Rebecca on Movescount click here.