Google Wave coming in 30 days
Google Wave, announced earlier this summer, is launching to the first 100,000 people who have signed up, on September 30.
Sign up here if you haven’t yet. I am particularly excited at the potential it offers for social collaboration and the automated tools that will make writing and organization easier.
Localharvest.org
Another great resource for local foods: Localharvest.org
The best organic food is what’s grown closest to you. Use our website to find farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies. Want to support this great web site? Shop in our catalog for things you can’t find locally!
Read about them here: http://www.localharvest.org/about.jsp
About LocalHarvest
LocalHarvest is America’s #1 organic and local food website. We maintain a definitive and reliable “living” public nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources. Our search engine helps people find products from family farms, local sources of sustainably grown food, and encourages them to establish direct contact with small farms in their local area. Our online store helps small farms develop markets for some of their products beyond their local area.
On Twitter: http://twitter.com/localharvestorg
It contains some unique features that I haven’t seen on similar sites, such as events, forums, and blogs. They also have over 6000 items sold from small family farms in their store to order online.
Eatwellguide.org: Find local, sustainable, and organic food
A quick look at a great resource for local foods: http://www.eatwellguide.org. According to the website:
The Eat Well Guide® is a free online directory for anyone in search of fresh, locally grown and sustainably produced food in the United States and Canada.
Eat Well’s thousands of listings include family farms, restaurants, farmers’ markets, grocery stores, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, U-pick orchards and more. Users can search by location, keyword, category or product to find good food, download customized guides, or plan a trip with the innovative mapping tool, Eat Well Everywhere. Eat Well is also home to The Green Fork blog and the free educational booklet Cultivating the Web: High Tech Tools for the Sustainable Food Movement.
Together with the enterprising spirits of independent farmers, locally owned businesses and partner organizations, the Eat Well Guide’s collaborative technology harnesses the power of the web to effect social, environmental and economic change, and maps the route to a more sustainable food system.
Read more about their values and history here: http://www.eatwellguide.org/i.php?id=About
And here is a short video exploring its features:
http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVUNcREVIR1xfRF1YWllbV1BQ/tutorial_exploring_eatwellguide_org
Foodzie.com: changing the way we eat
Foodzie is a perfect example of how a Web2.0 start-up can change the nutrition landscape and have an impact on how we purchase food. I will be watching this one closely to see how it takes off, especially with certain high profile social media users spreading the word. About foodzie:
We are an online marketplace where you can discover and buy food directly from small passionate food producers and growers. We are a part of a bigger mission, to help change the way people eat. Our small piece of that mission is to help the small food producers across the country find customers and grow their business. We believe that instead of a small number of large food companies there should be a large number of small food companies. We’re a bit obsessed with good food and passionate about connecting those that like to eat it with the people that make it. Learn more about our team. [http://foodzie.com/about]
They were among Businessweek.com’s top picks for “Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2009.”
Foodzie helps bridge the gap by handling credit-card processing and tax calculations and supplying prepaid shipping labels to the makers of grass-fed beef, sea salt caramels, and Sumatra coffee that populate its site. In return, Foodzie takes 20% of sales. Next up: tools to help bloggers and serious eaters promote Foodzie on Facebook and other sites. [http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0421_best_young_entrepreneurs/4.htm]
Here is a short video of the founders:
A screenshot of the website:
On Twitter: http://twitter.com/Foodzie
Clearly they know how to leverage the power of social media with integrated sharing links, and I like that each seller adds a personal profile so you can see exactly who you are buying from. Not to mention the foods just look really, really good.
Find farmer’s markets near you
Check out the USDA’s Farmer Market Search: http://apps.ams.usda.gov/FarmersMarkets/
Includes address, contact, times, and if they accept WIC, SFMNP, and SNAP. A great resource to pass on to friends, family, or clients alike.
Tutorial: Using the PubMed advanced search
PubMed has some powerful search options, and a new interface was introduced early in the year. Here is a great tutorial:
(via Scienceroll)
Tutorial: basics of Twitter
Here is a short tutorial on using Twitter.
http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVUNcREVIR1xfQ19bWVlfXlRX/tutorial_the_basics_of_twitter
Blogs, Tweets & Movies: Fueling the Good Food Movement
Please vote to make this event a reality and pass it on: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/2711
Blogs, Tweets & Movies: Fueling the Good Food Movement
- Event:
- Interactive 2010
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Type:
- Panel
- Category:
- Blogging, Branding / Marketing / Publicity, Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Community / Online Community, Education
- Organizer:
- Questions:
- food policy blogging
- sustainable agriculture education
- approaches to access of food, innercity gardens
- using video/media for education
- alternative investment and economic models
- meatless monday campaign
- Veggie trader to connect homegrown food with people
- CSA, CS-fish, CSmeat
- linking farmers with supply chains
- Description:
- Event:
- Interactive 2010
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Type:
- Panel
- Category:
- Blogging, Branding / Marketing / Publicity, Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Community / Online Community, Education
- Organizer:
- Questions:
- food policy blogging
- sustainable agriculture education
- approaches to access of food, innercity gardens
- using video/media for education
- alternative investment and economic models
- meatless monday campaign
- Veggie trader to connect homegrown food with people
- CSA, CS-fish, CSmeat
- linking farmers with supply chains
- Description:
- The Good Food Movement is using twitter, blogging, newspapers, movies and other creative forms of media to fuel changes in the way we eat and produce our food. Individually and globally, it is the cornerstone issue that connects people, the environment, health and energy. Can highlight: Meatless Monday, Food Inc., Fresh, Free Range Media, Berkshares, CSA/farmers markets/farm to school
The Good Food Movement is using twitter, blogging, newspapers, movies and other creative forms of media to fuel changes in the way we eat and produce our food. Individually and globally, it is the cornerstone issue that connects people, the environment, health and energy. Can highlight: Meatless Monday, Food Inc., Fresh, Free Range Media, Berkshares, CSA/farmers markets/farm to school
Video tutorials and an upcoming presentation
[Posted August 4] Thanks to the ease of ScreenToaster, I am going to start making short video tutorials on webservices that I review to demonstrate their use. I am also going to use it for a project I am working on, a presentation using Prezi demonstrating the benefits of social media tools for the nutrition profession which will be posted on this blog. The first version should be done in a couple weeks, and I will maintain it with ongoing additions. Please email me with anecdotes and comments to ace0cc+nutrition@gmail.com and I will be sure to credit your contributions. Thanks!
[Update August 19]: I have quite a bit done but will need some more time to get everything on the first version that I want. Planning right now to publish publicly on September 14th. I’m delaying a bit more to get more tutorials posted on the blog first.
Tutorial: Using FriendFeed, the basics
Here is a short video I created exploring the basics of FriendFeed.
http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVUNcREVIR1xfQ1xUXFtZVldd/tutorial_exploring_friendfeed
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