Authors

The following people have contributed posts to this blog.  The following are short biographies on how each of their perspectives uniquely contributes to the goal of promoting social media in the nutrition profession.  Also linked is contact information.

Colby Vorland (admin)| Email | Twitter | Wave (ace0cc@googlewave.com):  I feel there is a need for the nutrition profession to better connect, and using social media is a potential solution.  I started this blog to build a resource for beginners and regular users alike, to introduce and promote the use of social media for communication and collaboration.  With an obsession of reading the many nutrition related perspectives in the scientific literature, I find there is an unfortunate lack of accurate public interpretation of most research, and much disagreement within the field.  Bringing more critical thinkers in the field online and interacting publicly is an important step, in my opinion, to improving the personal and collective knowledge of academics and practitioners and holding ourselves to a higher standard of healthcare.  Nutritional science is one of rapid evolution, and so must be our methods of learning.

Ashley Colpaart RD LD | Email | Twitter:  is earning her Masters in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition at Tufts University with a focus on Sustainable Food Systems and the Environment. Colpaart serves nationally as Policy Chair and Steering Committee member for the Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association (ADA). As a writer with a public citizenship focus, Ashley keeps a much-liked blog called “Epicurean Ideal” and is also a much-trusted and highly-valued writer for Tufts Professor Wilde’s blog on “U.S. Food Policy.” Colpaart’s blogs are notable for their substance and facts, presented with a distinctive passion. Her posts on food policy have several times received links from larger national web media sites, including leading national economics and sustainable agriculture blogs. She has also been published in various newsletters and professional journals.

*Admin note: I found Ashley through her SXSW proposal, which represented exactly the type of complementary perspective from food policy that would benefit this project.

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.

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Are you a practitioner or academic who has anecdotes of how social media has impacted your practice or knowledge for the better?  Please email me at ace0cc+blog@gmail.com to add to our evolving example archive and be an influence for current and future social media adopters.