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Calling all Admins AND Devs
If you are both an admin and a dev and you missed my session with Jess Stratton at Lotusphere, go register for the webinar:
Collaboration, Party of One : When You Are Both the Dev and the Admin
When your administrator and your developer are one and the same, and they’re both you, things can get confusing. As the administrator, you’ve got a lot of power. Frequently, the role of administrator is to lock things down, keep the server running smoothly and tune performance. As the developer, you want a lot of power. You want unlimited agents to run anytime you want, as frequently as possible, with little to no limitations! So how do you reconcile these opposing needs when you have to play both roles? Jess and Kathy will show you how to use separate IDs, location documents and other fail-safes to make sure your party of one is successful!
Go here and register, then keep your eyes open for the email to register on gotomeeting. Â (Sorry for the double registration, it’s just how it works, don’t shoot the messenger). Â 
New England Lotus User Group
I am a little late announcing this here, but tomorrow I am speaking with John Head at the New England Lotus User Group meeting, http://www.nelotus.org/
We will be discussing the OpenNTF Mobile Controls. Â I’ve yet to get to one of these meetings, so I am looking forward to going and hopefully meeting some new people!
Great App To Track Calories
Wow! Â In my first post about the Nike Fuel band, I mentioned that I need the same thing for tracking what I eat. Â While this app doesn’t just automatically track stuff, it is about as close as you can get!
The Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker from myfitnesspal is free and the best part is that you can add food via BARCODE! Â I’ve done MANY food tracking systems in my lifetime, from paper to spreadsheets to apps, and the big hurdle to doing it consistently is inconvenience. Â No one wants to write down (or type in) everything they eat. Â This app makes it super easy. Â Tap “add”, select which meal, hit the barcode button and scan. Â Wow. Â And it’s free. Â More wow.
More on Nike Fuelband
I wrote about my new Nike Fuelband here. Â Now that I have had it for a few weeks, I wanted to say a little more about it.
I love it!
First, the battery life. Â It lasts roughly 9 days per charge. Â It charges up pretty quickly, and has a nice little reminder indicator as it is getting low. Â For something I am using all day, every day, that seems pretty good to me.
I wrote about Nike Fuel in that post. Â When you first activate your fuel band, you are asked to select a goal. Â I picked the lowest goal “suggested”, which was 2000. Â (Remember, these are not calories, but “Nike Fuel”, a converted number so anyone with a fuel band can compare on equal footing). Â Sadly (and a bit surprisingly) I did not easily meet the lowest suggested goal every day. Â Many days I had to do a little extra to meet it. Â But in a way, that was exciting, that meant that thanks to the Nike Fuel band, I was moving a little more each day. Â Also, that I wasn’t as active as I may have thought.
After a week at 2000, I increased it to 2100. Â We’re doing baby steps here, people. Â I made my goal every day except one! Â Where I missed it by 7 measly fuel points, and only because I wasn’t paying attention and midnight passed me by before I noticed.
They track some fun stuff, for example my best day was 3,194. Â I’ve hit the 10k, 25k, and 50k Nike fuel milestones. Â My average day is 2,300. Â I can track my fuel against Women age 30-39 and the entire Nike+ community. Â I see I lag them in most fuel in a week, and average fuel per week, but I am smoking both comparisons in daily goals hit. Â So no surprise there, I may do a little less, but I’m consistent. Â Still, it’s motivation to beat out the comparisons in all categories. Â
So here I am at 27 days with the Fuel band and I still love it, and I still wear it, and it’s still motivating me. Â I’m increasing my goal to 2200 today. Â I’m hoping to increase 100 points every week or so.
Anyone else got one? Â Want to compare stats? Â Let me know!