Announcing our new name! Getupandmove.me is now imoveyou.com!

Dear Get Up and Move Users, investors, supporters, family, and friends -

Today you will notice something a bit different.

When you point your browsers to getupandmove.me, you will be gently redirected to our new home on the web: imoveyou.com.

Andrey and I have many reasons for choosing to change our name. I’ll share a few with you here, briefly, but we encourage you to get in touch with us to ask questions and send comments.

My iPhone is 301.904.5136 (call anytime!). You you can email us both - jen@contagionhealth.com andandrey@contagionhealth.com.

First, there's a practical reason for the change - we made an early but significant mistake common in web startups. We chose a URL with a '.me' ending instead of a '.com' ending. 

We actually don't own getupandmove.com, and during user testing it became apparent that not owning this domain name was confusing some folks. Over and over we've seen people type "getupandmove.com" into their browsers.

We've been trying to buy the getupandmove.com address for months now, but to no avail. 

That means that if we want to make it as easy as possible for users to remember us, we need to pick a new name - an available .com phrase that suits our mission, vision, and values.

We went through WEEKS of tough whiteboarding sessions, asking many people we know including our advisors and investors, even setting up an Amazon Mechanical Turk job to try and find just the right new name.

It was very, very difficult, but after much deliberation, we had it: imoveyou.com.

Why imoveyou? 

It's pretty simple - we noticed many of you are using getupandmove to motivate each other to do nifty things other than exercise. 

Way back in November, when we launched the earliest version of Get Up and Move, we thought the only potential use for the platform would be healthy microchoice challenges.

Luckily, we were right (you're still using Getupandmove.me to do fitness related challenges a large part of the time), but we were also sort of wrong - you're now using Get Up and Move to provide social support for many more activities. 

In addition to the more 'classic' microfitness challenges (dance to 2 songs, walk for 15 minutes, do 50 bed jumps :) we were seeing a lot of emergent behavior on the site that the phrase 'get up and move' didn't seem to capture.

Examples include drinking 8 glasses of water, finishing a work project, even watching True Blood with a friend. 

You showed us the larger potential for getupandmove: rather than just a site where you nag friends to exercise, it's a social action network where proof of your action creates currency that moves others.

As we whiteboarded what the site actually does now, we discovered it's already evolved into a place where I can move you to do all sorts of fun, good-for-you activities. 

You're telling us (via email, our forums, and during in-person conversations) that the benefits of using getupandmove are no longer just physical - they're mental, they're emotional, and perhaps most importantly, they're social. 

You're telling us Get Up and Move helps you feel more connected to friends and family who are far away in real life, thanks to sharing photos, videos, and emails about the activity you did together. 

Using imoveyou.com connects you to your communities, to your tribes, to your people, to your own good intentions (and how you act on them or not) in a way that hasn't been done before. 

imoveyou.com isn't made for *talking* about what to do with your Saturday afternoon...it's made for you to create a small plan and do it with friends, quickly and easily. 

We've heard the site described as Evite for healthy actions, or a lightweight Plancast for health and wellness. 

We're happy with both those comparisons, as it means that we're succeeding at our primary mission - injecting a strong shot of social into your daily wellbeing. 

Get Up and Move showed us the tremendous power of reciprocity. By saying "I will do this if you will do that," we created - together - a fascinating promise-based network that amazingly works *just* based on the honor system. 

In the next few months, we'll go far beyond social proof (uploading photos and videos of yourself completing a challenge, commenting on group challenges, etc). We will begin to provide you with other concrete ways to verify that you've completed a healthy action. 

We will become the Paypal for verified healthy actions. 

It's a pivot we're very excited to share with you. Get ready to just move it at the end of the month when our first test is up and running (literally and figuratively). 

But I digress :). Today is about celebrating our new name together, and inviting you to join us at our new home: imoveyou.com.

All the same functionality you know and love will still be there - a few design changes and a new URL reflect the extent of how we're sharing this new identity.

To our wonderful Cabot users, who joined us via the Get Up and Mooove campaign or Random Acts of Cheddar, we still love you!  You'll be able to access all the features and challenges you currently enjoy, and your community page - except for the web address - will remain unchanged. 

Andrey and I are pretty pumped about this.

We welcome a new opportunity to explore how making healthy commitments to each other - online - allows us to move and motivate each other to DO what we say we will - offline. 

Thank you to all our users for continuously moving Andrey and I to build a better social action platform for you. 

We'll get right back to it!

:) Jen and Andrey

imoveyou.com

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Team Contagion! In Sticker Form...

Swag from #casualconnect.

Far left, for Keith, analyst and Chief Science Officer: The "Looky Lou" Middle, for Jen, CEO and soc-me demon: "Blogmuncher" Far right, for Andrey, CTO and dev wizard: "The Web Ninja"

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"I'm on a cart - hiyahhh!"

 

Someone should do an Old Spice "I'm an entrepreneur" spoof. Chris Sacca, consider yourself hereby nominated...

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CHRISTUS CABRINI HOSPITAL ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL DIABETES CONTEST WINNERS | CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini

We're thrilled to be a part of CHRISTUS Health’s’ commitment to compassionate care, and to bring this social focus to such a worthy goal.” "We are committed to finding ways to make healthy daily decisions ‘contagious’. We believe your health is in your hands, and the pursuit of better health is a social activity. Who better to support you in this effort than family and friends?

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Contagion took 2nd prize!

Now the *real* work begins.

I'm thrilled and yes, a bit frightened by the scope and opportunity we've been presented with here.

Even though we all tell ourselves we start companies with the noblest of intentions, it's not everyday a scrappy startup gets a chance to ACTUALLY save the world, or - at the very least - improve the state of healthcare for folks with diabetes in the state of Louisiana.

This is the kind of opportunity I go to bed dreaming about and wake up to find - amazingly - we have in front of us.

I am so grateful to be called to doing this kind of work, and to have the resources appear, sometimes through sweat, blood, and tears, sometimes through absolute luck, to make this happen.

Thank you - everyone - for your support and love and encouragement.

Your enthusiasm and belief in Andrey and I is contagious.

It is palpable. It allows us to keep reaching for goals that seem unobtainable.

Please...keep it coming. We'll need it more than ever in the year ahead.

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Emailing Docs is Good for You (and Them) - Who Knew? Kaiser, Apparently...

Patients who take advantage of secure patient-physician email options offered by their doctor are more likely to experience healthy outcomes, according to a recent study published in the journal Health Affairs. In a study of their own electronic health records system, Kaiser Permanente researchers found that patients suffering from diabetes and hypertension who emailed their doctors had higher quality of care scores than those who do not use such technology. 

A similar study, published simultaneously in Health Affairs, found that primary-care physicians must improve their communication skills in order to deliver "patient-centered care."

Read more: Patients who email their doctors are healthier, Kaiser study finds - FierceHealthIT http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/patients-who-email-their-doctors-are-healthier-kaiser-study-finds/2010-07-12?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal##ixzz0tUwekYJb 
Subscribe: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/signup?sourceform=Viral-Tynt-FierceHealthIT-Fie...

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Patients who email their doctors are healthier, Kaiser study finds - FierceHealthIT

Patients who take advantage of secure patient-physician email options offered by their doctor are more likely to experience healthy outcomes, according to a recent study published in the journal Health Affairs. In a study of their own electronic health records system, Kaiser Permanente researchers found that patients suffering from diabetes and hypertension who emailed their doctors had higher quality of care scores than those who do not use such technology. 

A similar study, published simultaneously in Health Affairs, found that primary-care physicians must improve their communication skills in order to deliver "patient-centered care."

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Dinner #getupandmove!

I will grate cheddar for an awesome spinach dinner salad if you will...?

Getupandmove.me/Cabot

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The PHR: Uber-Simple Definition

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Toss this to your friends when you start making med-record-acronym-salad all up in ur social networks....

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Reason #42 to Get Up and Move...

By the power of Greyskull that is a lot of money but I admit to being in desperate need of increasing my body strength. My ten year old child often turns the taps off in the bathroom very tightly and I have to go several days without washing. I feel bad constantly having to ask the lady from next door to come over and loosen them for me, what with her arthritis and limited wheelchair access to my apartment.

To be honest, I originally joined your gym with full intentions of attending every few days but after waiting in vain for someone to offer me steroids, I began to suspect this was not going to happen and the realisation that I may have to exercise instead was, quite frankly, horrifying. My aversion to work, along with the fact one of your employees, Justin, was rather rude, telling me to 'lift this', ''push that' dulled my initial enthusiasm of becoming muscular and I stopped attending.

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If your aversion to working out is as strong as David's, consider increasing your body strength with a sweet lil' situp challenge.

Join 5 of us here: http://getupandmove.me/shazow/2234

Our new nifty groups feature is sort of like Evite for healthy actions

Who do you think needs to get a move on? Invite them to work off that 4th of July bar-b-q, courtesy of Team Contagion.

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Long Live Pedal Power

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From: GOOD.is | Transparency: The Rise of Walking and Biking (Raw Image)

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Want vs. Need

Often, we know what we *should do, and what we *shouldn't.

Sometimes all we need is an excuse (someone, something) to make the right choice. 

The most valuable part of the decision-making process may be cutting things out, when we discriminate or "put a hit" on the 'bad' options.

Learning in progress with Get Up and Move... 

Andrey's stroke of simple brilliance during a planning session = we tend to learn what we want GUAM to be by first determining what we do NOT want it to be. 

1. We do not want it to be a quantification site.

2. We do not want it to be a generic pledge/promise site.

3. We do not want it to be a health site.

4. We do not want it to be a game.

5. We do not want it to be all talk, no action. 

Amazingly, this helped us figure out what we do want Get Up and Move to be when it grows up (although, like a teenager, it's probably gonna change its outfit repeatedly and suffer from a few really bad haircuts):

1. We do want it to help you quantify your achievements. But we don't want to demotivate people to whom seeing achievement numbers or leaderboards feels like getting poison ivy in the private parts. Action: API planned.

2. We do not want it to be about 'just any' promise.' You can already use it for this now, if you like. Because after all, health is about so much more than what is done to you at the doctors office, what happens to you at the hospital. It's about good living, and reciprocal nurturing. Action: Analyze what actions people find most valuable, and design for those. Continue to keep 'completing' a challenge at the core of our philosophy, while continuing to make it easier to 'motivate' without completing an action by including comment, media, and other nifty stuff.

3. We want health to be the side effect of designing a really kick-ass action platform that helps you git er done by aggregating support from across your existing social graphs. Action: Continue moving folks from intent to action. Continue testing the best way to get you a surplus of support from friends and family, stat. Want a phone call? We're on that like the snowy white casing on the new iPhone 4G. 

4. We want using Get Up and Move to feel like a commitment to yourself and someone else. This isn't a game. You don't have to find some rare snowy egret egg, become a drag queen or motocross racer or 6 foot blue yeti. You don't have to go on quests, grow leaves, or kill off daemonic choices. You're smarter than that anyway, and you'd probably rather be watching True Blood than become a Level 7 Blue Footed Bed Jumper. Action: We won't social-gamerize you, or try to trick you into better behavior. We will, however, try to use smart game design and behavioral economics to figure out how to make this fun without being spammy or gimmicky. 

It's crazy to believe there are still only two of us, and one programmer, and we're already on V6.0, code named "Awesome." This was about building what we want, mixing it with some of what you need, and then tossing it all back to see how smooth it goes down.

Speaking of which, we left you alone too long without letting you know how we're doing - as a team, as a company, as a platform. 

We won't make that mistake again. We don't want to move with you, we NEED to. Expect some very nifty news from us, and more frequent love letters, dear readers. 

And in case you hadn't noticed, Version 6 of Get Up and Move Me is live and hot out of the oven. 

Groups, comments, upload a video, emails, and you can 'fly solo' too. We'll have a nifty update on all the new stuff Monday, with tech deets from Andrey to boot. 

Here's to a long, happy lifespan - for you and for us. Now I'm gonna go do that "put my feet up for 1 hour" challenge. Who's with me?!

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Want vs. Need

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Wiifit Gets a Competitive Cousin

So Kinect works—and better than I’d have thought.

Still, I foresee some challenges, the first being the space required to play some of Kinect's more active games.

Most of the activities I tried demanded plenty of movement—much more than any Wii game I’ve played. The key differentiator is that the player’s feet are now involved, which means we no longer stand in one spot and just move our arms; we actually move around the room.

I’d estimate that I was moving left and right at least three metres while I was steering the raft and a couple of metres forward and backward in the handball game. And that doesn’t include the two metres between my movement zone and the television—space necessary in order for the camera to get a full picture of your body and the area in which it moves—or my flailing limbs.

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Want. +1.

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Best Bed Jump #getupandmove Evar

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Ten Clapping #getupandmove Pushups for @evanmacmillan

Note to guammies: do these on a springy gym mat. My nostrils kissed the floor more than a couple times.

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Eat Ur Own Dog Food

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If you don't use your own app on a regular basis, who the heck are you building for?

Try something new today. Something small. How long has it been since you did a somersault? Touched your toes?Walked barefoot in fresh early- summer grass?

Move. Today. Your body will thank you. So will I.

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Ready for the Hospital? Nope? How about "Cave Explorer?"

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Note to self: Reconceptualize the mundane. Each microcosmic moment of life can feel like an adventure.

Now excuse me, off to figure out how to make a shower fun...

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Team Contagion Uniforms - Want One? We're Hiring

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It was a long day, after we pulled an all-nighter. What can I say ;).

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Join Team Contagion. We're lookin...

Right now. For a front end engineer and a back end engineer.

Contagion is building an early-stage consumer action platform.

We are engineering and product driven, with an early revenue deal and passionate users. 

Click here to download:

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-1 if you call yourself ninja, 10x, or some other nomenclature on your resume. Of course you're 10x ;). 

We'll be very picky about the right fit. Personal recommendations are the best way in.

Company perks:

• Join us for the summer in a pre-eminent incubator. 
• Be part of the journey as we get an office, meet with VCs, and grow our core product, pushing further into the mobile and social spaces.
• You want to work on location? Sure. Game mechanics? Yep. Mobile/iPad development? Come on over. 
• We encourage you to own and open-source any libraries or software you develop on which our core product doesn't depend directly, under your own name.
• We highly encourage side projects and don't retain ownership. The stuff you like to do is your stuff. 
• "Inspiration" oriented work schedule and 4 day work week (Fridays the founders keep working - hang with us if you like). Our office is open 24/7 or work from the beach, coffee shops, the CalTrain. 
• Gym memberships and work-out meetings. 
• Don't get us wrong - we work hard, and we work long hours. The answer to anyone on the team asking: "Is X ready to roll?" should always be "yeah, yesterday" not "almost.
• Speaking of which, we'll move you out to Silicon Valley for the summer. 
• Meet our Board of Awesome (Garry Tan of Posterous, Joe Gebbia of Airbnb, Stephen Cohen of Posterous Technologies). 
• Interact like peers, not subordinates. Every engineer is a founder of the product. We treat you like one. Whatever part of the company dynamics interest you (funding, legal, UX, speaking/demoing) we want you to do that and learn from our mistakes. 
• Hang at brunches and dinners where we learn from the best: Matt Galligan of SimpleGeo, the crew from GreenPatch, and more. 
• Teaching Thursdays: Want to learn chess? Frisbee golf? How to interview? For an hour or so 1x a week Team Contagion members teach each other cool stuff. 
• Champagne delivered to new employees, dinner with your significant others, hosted by the founders, Adobe-style. 
• Salary important? Need a visa? Want equity? We'll work with you to figure out the right individual compensation package. 

Interested? Get in touch:

@shazow (CTO): andrey@contagionhealth.com

@jensmccabe (CEO): jen@contagionhealth.com

Email resume and what you'd change about http://getupandmove.me to icanhaz@contagionhealth.com. 

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Feast!

Thanks to the DotCloud and Padmapper boyz for joining Team Contagion, plus the founder of Subtle Influence and Limedaring.com, for this awesome summer repast.

Good food, good fun, good friends and founder talk. So grateful to be exactly where I am, doing exactly what I'm doing. I'll feed you guys anytime ;).

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