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Thinking about the Culinate site

From On Culinate by James Berry

February 5, 2009

It’s interesting today to see many of the Culinate members, some from way back at the beginning, finding their member pages. Member pages are a feature that we’d planned since the beginning but have only taken online in the last several months.

One of the tasks before me is to migrate more of the user-generated content to the front of the site, where people can appreciate it, be appreciated for it, find new friends, etc.

For me, there seems a never ending stream of things I really want to do for Culinate, and yet only so many hours in the day. But seeing users using a part of the site we’ve worked hard on for months brings great rewards.

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1. by Laura Parisi on Feb 5, 2009 at 10:36 PM PST

My vote—a Culinate Facebook app!

2. by Hank Sawtelle on Feb 7, 2009 at 10:43 AM PST

Laura, what would you like to see the FB app do?

3. by Laura Parisi on Feb 7, 2009 at 5:44 PM PST

I’m not really sure—I hadn’t thought about it that much. But when I asked my friend Brett, who introduced me to Culinate in the first place, to become my friend on the site, he said, “They should just make a Culinate FB app. I don’t have the time for another social networking site.” A facebook app would allow the people who don’t want to get totally immersed in the Culinate community to participate on some level—share recipes, comment on posts, etc.

Wouldn’t be cool if you added a recipe to your recipe queue—but it also added it to your Facebook profile? When you create a recipe box it gets added to your Facebook profile? The Culinate community is awesome in that there are a lot of like-minded foodie folks—but, Facebook is great because that’s where my friends are. A Culinate FB could really bridge that gap.

Anyway. These are not very well flushed out ideas. Maybe there’s no need to bridge the two worlds?

4. by Hank Sawtelle on Feb 7, 2009 at 6:19 PM PST

I think those are great ideas.

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