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Regular features include S’M (Social Media) Tuesday, Thriv’Able Thursday, and S’Monday (Social Media) Tips.

Thriv’Able Thursday (I): Food Blogs, Legitimacy, and Gourmet Magazine

Contributed by Rick DeVan on June 24, 2010 at 7:00 am ET

Resource: Why Food Bloggers Are Here to Stay

Food blogs and bloggers have become a new staple of online food writing. They are everywhere, but bloggers themselves are still struggling to gain legitimacy.

The struggle for legitimacy for almost every type of blog or online resource is ongoing, but what is legitimacy?

Legitimacy is trust.

And speaking of legitimacy, Gourmet Magazine is being revived as Gourmet Live for the iPad. Now that is food you can trust.

Filed under Life, Work, and Society, Observations, Social Media, Thrivability

Tags used: Food, Gourmet Live —

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S’M Special: Food Photo Diaries Online (Update)

Contributed by Rick DeVan on April 12, 2010 at 10:46 pm ET

Resource: You Are What You Photograph and Fed Up With Lunch – The School Lunch Project.

This is an update to the post of last week: S’M Special: Food Photo Diaries Online.

Practical, real-world applications for the trend of photographing your daily caloric intake.

Filed under Life, Work, and Society, Social Media, Thrivability

Tags used: Blogs, Food, Photography —

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S’M Special: Food Photo Diaries Online

Contributed by Rick DeVan on April 7, 2010 at 8:00 am ET

Resource: First Camera, Then Fork Via The New York Times.

Keeping a photographic food diary is a growing phenomenon with everything from truffle-stuffed suckling pig to humble bowls of Cheerios being captured and offered for public consumption.

Resource: I Ate This Flickr Group

Although I knew this was a trend, I didn’t know how big of a trend until now.

Filed under Life, Work, and Society, Social Media

Tags used: Blogs, Food, Photography —

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