Elevation

As you may or may not have noticed, over the past two to three weeks there has been a period of inactivity with regards to the blogs, exercise postings, and comments by Elevation. This inactivity was not due to a lack of content or information, but rather was due to the fact that we have been tirelessly working on a boatload of updates to our public site and application. Within the next week, you will find yourself visually stimulated by what we consider to be a greatly enhanced website designed to maximize the user experience and ease of use. While the most apparent of these changes is the color and design, the most monumental, and well kick-a$$, are the alterations that have been made to the exercise search. Not only have we totally upgraded the look, feel, and process through which you all can search our exercises, but we have completely redone the backend search operations that return the exercises.

As previously mentioned, we have been making alterations and developing new feature set within the application as well. Though the vast majority of these changes have been items that clean up the application and put a higher level of polish on it, we have been wire-framing and establishing the needed functionality for a trainer scheduling section. The scheduling section will allow trainers to completely control their scheduled availability by creating time blocks for training sessions.   Once these time blocks are establish on the trainers side, existing clients and potential clients can request an appointment either through the trainers public site scheduling widget or within the applications in the scheduling widget.  When an appointment has been requested, an email is sent to the trainer informing them of the pending appointment request.  From there they can respond right there in the email, or click on the link taking them back to the Elevation Application confirm where the appointment can be confirmed. We are supremely confident that our methodology of creating time blocks for appointments and the process of requesting/accepting appointments will greatly enhance a trainers visibility of their schedule and ease of adjustment it.

In today’s world of twitter, facebook, foursquare, and linkedin we realized that there is a need for trainers to be able to blast to world that they have an appointment open. While it will not be released in the first revision of the scheduling feature, we have prepared for this by enabling trainers to engage/request appointments with clients that they currently have.

For the individual trainer this sounds all well and good, but what about a larger organization you ask. Well, we did not forget about you. Stick true to our roots, we have developed our scheduling section in such a fashion that larger organizations have the functionality that allows Administrators to request an appointment between trainers and clients.