Summer 2009 with Matt
This summer, I traveled the country setting up MOVRun. This is a new division of my fitness company that we’ve had for about 8 months. We were able to expand into over 8 new cities with more to come with my journey across the country to find new destinations to run.
I also have started a new business, KIWI Online. Already partnered with the University of California with our internship program, we are expanding this to not only include more fitness certifications, but also to offer degrees focusing on the arts. KIWI is 100% online and allows students to partner with my various businesses so students may get hands-on experience while learning. It is also 100% free as long as students commit to a 3 year work-exchange program. I believe education should be free and this is a great way of providing this to our nation that I look forward to having up and running with 100 students by fall 2011.
We’ve expanded our learning tools to include a new program for the Wii so students can interact and learn boxing, ballroom dancing, martial arts, sword fighting, posture, and more all with the Wii! This is similar to WiiFit, but designed with personal trainers in mind and can help them obtain their certification.
In my quest to better our business, I have started to use an incredible software for video tutorials called Camtasia. You can view a few of our videos here: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
We’ve really learned a lot about how to run a business online over the summer and implemented programs such as TaskFreak, Moodle, Camtasia, OpenOffice, GoogleDocs, WordPress, and more into our lineup that is used everyday by our staff.
I also was able to make quite a long stop in Alabama to train our newest dance instructor, Misty Koger. She will be opening free ballroom dance classes in her area very soon as well as our new location in Studio City soon to come. This is exciting and we are forever thankful to those who have participated in our races to make this dream come true.
In the months to come, will be released exclusively to our clients and we will expand our dance program around the nation – specifically in San Francisco, New York, and San Diego.
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Hackneyville
I’ve been writing on this book for awhile and wrote the forward to it this past week. You can check it out by clicking the book. The forward touches upon my childhood and explains why I have the views I do & the birth of their formation.
Here’s an excerpt: “This is that story and [...]
Dance Maps & Tutorials
In preparation for the new class being taught on KiwiOnline & also sections available at MOVFitness.com – I have been making dance maps & tutorials. These maps show exactly where someone’s footwork should be – differentiating right & left and then have the timing for the step in the upper right corner.
There are also videos [...]
KnitMatt
Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve made a post here. I took up the hobby of knitting over the wintertime. Thanks to Amelia who is a whiz at it. I thought it’d be nice to try a new challenge that was completely out of my personality. It’s getting hard to find new things that aren’t [...]
Human Resources Innovation
I have typically taken resumes & applications like any other business for years and have seen literally thousands of applicants. I personally don’t like this method of hiring and it’s hard to keep track of everyone. What ends up happening, I only hire from the current 3 months of people who have inquired [...]
