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Some great ideas posted straight from Vegan Soapbox:

• Take pictures of your vegan food and put them on the web. They don’t have to be perfect pictures. They just have to be pictures. The more, the merrier.
• Post vegan recipes on the web. Put them on your blog, in forums, wherever…
• Give new vegans encouragement by leaving nice comments on their blogs or sending them nice, encouraging emails.
• Send pro-vegan emails and leave pro-animal comments at mainstream news websites and blogs.

Have more ideas? Please leave them in the comments!

We recently published a post about vegans on Twitter. Now, you can follow PETA and the PETA blog on Twitter as well!

What is Twitter and why is it of any interest to us vegan-types? In short, Twitter is a communication and social networking tool where folks make mini-updates (max of 140 characters per message) in answer to the question: “What are you doing?”

Vegans on twitter are sending status messages about what they’re eating, thinking about and reading, as well as updating folks on when they’ve posted recipes or other articles of interest to their blogs. It’s a micro-stream of real-time information provided by vegans, and because you’re not out there googling all things vegan 24/7, you can get this info at a relatively low level of effort and time-investment.

Recently twittered: a new soup recipe, a petition to Oprah on the humane treatment of livestock (sign soon), a new vegan freak radio show, and lots of yummy food and beverage ideas.

At last count, there were about 211 twitter users with “vegan” in their profile description. Visit Twitter to sign up, if you don’t already an account, and then head to TwitDir to find like-minded vegans to follow (including me!).

If you’re already blogging and want to add the ability for your readers to instantly twit from your blog, visit TwitThis to download code snippets, bookmarklets, and/or a WordPress plugin.

[Update]: Feel free to leave your twitter id in the comments.

We want to be the most comprehensive guide to vegan living that exists on the web. That’s a “big, hairy, audacious” goal, but I’ve heard that those are the type that are really worth pursuing. There are a lot of vegans publishing really great stuff out there; our objective is not to replace them, but to highlight the best of ‘em and bring exposure to lesser known content all in one centralized location.

To kick things off, here’s a tip on discovering vegan restaurants with the added bonus of having visual previews of the food.

I recently discovered the Vegan Restaurant Guide, a flickr group which encourages members to post pictures of their vegan meals from various restaurants around the world. Folks are also encouraged to include opinions of the restaurant and to note locations and websites (if applicable). It’s still a small group, but it seems like it could really blossom into a useful resource.

Other interesting vegan-related photo groups on flickr are:

* Organic Vegan
* VeganYumYum Food Porn
* vegan with a vengeance (and friends)
* Vegan Cupcakes
* Vegan Lunchbox
* Vegan Foods – bought or homemade

Get inspired and be inspiring. If I’ve missed one of your favorite vegan-related flickr groups, please add them in the comments.