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Social Media For Restaurants Made Easier Through Burgers
Rev Ciancio demystifies 10 social networks, helping restauranteurs learn how to use these platforms to foster brand awareness, online engagement and better customer service
Is Food Safety Going Social?
There are two interesting pieces of news from last week on the ways social media is being leveraged to share information about food safety concerns, as well as to predict outbreaks earlier
Surveys of Chefs and Consumers Find Technology Use, But More Info is Needed [Survey]
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Two interesting surveys about technology use in restaurants predict trends for 2012. But the specifics of those trends seem to be lacking, and to find out more, Food+Tech Connect has created a quick survey.
Social Media and the USFRA “Food Dialogues” Campaign
The recent “Food Dialogues” – organized and funded by the year old U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance – has a multi-million dollar annual budget, and the membership of some of the largest and most powerful agricultural groups in the world. But thus far, despite the group’s $11 million annual budget, the effort seems to have made little actual headway
#IreneRecipes – Support East Coast Farmers Devastated by Irene
Studiofeast’s Mike Lee decided to have a little fun during the Hurricane lockdown, asking his twitter followers : “Tweet me your hurricane food items, I’ll tweet you back a recipe.” Lee put together a collection of the 140 character menus he conceived and writes, “Take a look, have a laugh, and if you enjoyed them, please consider for a moment to donate to the Red Cross to help with the recovery effort in places that were way less lucky than NYC.”
FAO Tweet-up on Horn of Africa: Is Twitter The Best Place to Discuss Famine?
The FAO hosted a tweet-up today on “Building a Food-Secure Future in the Horn of Africa.” The discussion generated a fair amount of buzz from NGOs and interested world citizens alike
Punchfork’s Innovative Web Search Business Model: Using Social Data to Personalize Recipe Search
How can data exhaust produced through social networks be leveraged to improve web search? What business models are emerging based on the monetization of digital assets rather than reliance on advertising dollars? Meet the newest addition to this space: Punchfork, a site that uses social data to make it easier to find the ‘best’ recipes from popular blogs and sites.
The Contest Challenge
powered by Fotopedia Two weeks ago Danielle asked me what I thought of entering the WE Media Pitch IT! Challenge. I took a quick look at the site and quipped “I don’t see a downside”. I knew that Danielle had most of the information needed for the application ready to go and a strong network
RecipeRelay: Using the Web to Socialize & Customize Cooking
Everyday, food lovers from all over the world log on to the web in search of recipes. A growing number of sites, such as Food52 and Gourmet Live, are helping to democratize, personalize , and socialize the cooking experience (click here for a more complete of social recipe sites). RecipeRelay is an interesting social recipe venture
Your Weekly Questions: 1/10/11 – 1/16/10/11
Last week, I asked if you would be interested in having me launch a Your Weekly Questions section in the newsletter and on the website. The idea is to get everyone talking and make it easier for you to get answers to your burning questions. Below are the questions I received for this week. Please feel
8 Simple Steps to Hackathon Epiphany
Up until a couple of weeks ago, the largest event I had ever organized were dinner parties for 10 in my apartment. Then the Food+Tech Hackathon came along. With 12 days of lead time, a $100 budget from Gojee, and big aspirations, I joined Danielle Gould (founder of Food+tech Connect), Marc Alt (CEO of Opensourcecities),
2010 Food+Tech Highlights
What a year for food and tech! It has been truly wonderful getting to know all of you over the past couple of months. I can’t wait to connect with more of you at the events (hackathons, classes, and nerdy tech dinners) that are in the works for 2011. Two weeks ago, my friend Charlie
ThisBatch.com: NYC Tech Entrepreneur Chris Muscarella on Building The Lean CSA
This Batch, uses the power of the web and smart supply management to offer local produce that’s more on demand. Consumers win by getting more choice and flexibility of when they participate and farmers win by having pre-bought produce that they can transport easily along with their other orders, rather than having to speculate on how much to bring to a farmers market
Apps Review: Gourmet Live and Martha Stewart Cookies
Oprah’s is in love it. It’s Cyber Week. Have you bought an iPad yet? When I first played around with an iPad back in April, I didn’t get it. [I didn't Twitter first either, but that's another story.] Initially the iPad seemed like an expensive netbook/media player. Now, I am an iPad fan because
Food+Tech Bites 11/29 – 12/5
Are you still not receiving food+tech bites in your inbox? Sign up here to ensure you get deliciously interesting food+tech news, tips, and the latest apps delivered right to your inbox! Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Food+Tech HackathonReady to get your nerd on? Join us on 12/4 for inaugural Food+Tech
