MFP Seeks SF Area Members to Interview

Steven

Dear MyFitnessPal Members,

The MyFitnessPal Team in San Francisco is seeking five or six volunteers in the Bay Area to meet with members of our staff in the MyFitnessPal offices on Monday, April 1st.

We'd like to spend around and hour and a quarter with each volunteer, to learn as much as we can about how we can improve what we do.

Are you available to help?

We're seeking to meet with a wide range of users: users who are close to, or far from, their goal weight; users who have been with us less than a month and long-time users; users who log exercise and those who don't.

Volunteers will leave with some MFP swag, and with our deep gratitude.

Appointments will be made for 9am, 10:30am, 12:30pm, 2pm and 3:30pm

Please post in this thread if you are interested, and available at one or more of these times (no need to specify your schedule in this topic, a staff member will follow up via Private Message if you're selected, beginning early next week).

We'll make every effort to give priority to those who respond first. However, please understand that our goal of meeting with users who represent a broad sample of our members may require us to look beyond the very first volunteers. We'll post in this thread, and lock it as well, when we've confirmed our group of interviewees.

Thank you all for using MyFitnessPal, and thank you to those in the San Francisco area with the time and interest to help us out on April 1st. If you're not local to San Francisco, but have MyFitnessPal friends who are in the Bay Area, please share this post with them!

Regards,
Steven
MyFitnessPal Staff

cherylatkwechanged

Yes please Steven

spramn

Sure, fly me from oz and i'll be happy to chat

viajera99

You can PM me.

badtastebetty

I'll be in San Fran at the end of June... (I'm not helpful :frown: )

InnerConflict

Damn. I will be busy that day performing April Fool's Day jokes.

Tercob

I am in San jose, do I have to go to SF or can we meet half way...maybe Dublin? San Ramon? Let me know

BinaryPulsar

I am in San jose, do I have to go to SF or can we meet half way...maybe Dublin? San Ramon? Let me know

SF is not that far, I'm sure you could make the trip. (I used to live there, for 7 years in the area).

j4nash

send me a PM, I work in SF and have been a member here since 2009.

roxxie25

I might be available that day and would love to help

Sarauk2sf

I live in the area and would be happy to participate.

spamantha57

I'm from South San Francisco. Afternoons are good for me, so the 2pm or 3:30 slot.

37434958

Please

volume77

damn thought we were gunna get paidd or be on tv.........................................

pastryari

I live in the SF Bay Area. Not sure if I'm what you're looking for but feel free to PM if you want.

DopeItUp

I live in the area and would be happy to participate.

If you don't pick this lady you are out of your collective minds.

penguinlally

would LOVE to!!!!!! *jumping up n down --waving arm in the air---crying "pick me pick me pick me!!!!"

penguinlally

would LOVE to!!!!!! *jumping up n down --waving arm in the air---crying "pick me pick me pick me!!!!"

I'm available at any time---last day of spring break for me

taunto

I live in the area and would be happy to participate.

Not that my words matters but it would be really awesome if one of the most brilliant and respect minds of MFP who currently volunteers with her wealth of knowledge and shares good information became a part of MFP. You guys should at least hear her out!

Good luck on finding quality people Steven!

nataliescalories

I am available as well.

BurtHuttz

BEST. APRIL. FOOLS. EVER.

You guys are going to show up at the address and it will be an abandoned warehouse with a hastily scribbled "LOL" sign on the door.

ScatteredThoughts

Steven,

Have you considered video chat? It seems that would be a good way to reach a wider audience of interview candidates.

Just a thought.

InnerConflict

Steven,

Have you considered video chat? It seems that would be a good way to reach a wider audience of interview candidates.

Just a thought.

You mean there are MFP members outside of SF?

Steven

I'll definitely see if the team running this pilot program is open to Skype meetings. Maybe for phase two if we expand the interview project? I can't say for sure, but I'll definitely pass the feedback along.

dsjohndrow

You can Skype me if that works.

zbatch34

I would love to!

-Zach

PHLLLY

Afternoons would work for me, I can head up to the city from San Jose at anytime if need be. Sounds like a great idea for MFP to reach out like that.

Steven

Thank you all so very much for your enthusiasm and willingness to spend some time with us.

It looks like we've got a healthy collection of volunteers -- enough to fill our current available interview slots -- so i'm going to lock the thread for the time being.

I will re-open the thread if we're unable to confirm availability with enough of the current roster of volunteers.

Thank you again for putting yourselves forward. We look forward to meeting some of our peeps in the flesh!

Regards,
Steven
MyFitnessPal Staff