I’ll be hosting a panel with Jessica Gavin, Nicole Gallace and Alex Shirazi at IFT19 in New Orleans called Building Online Platforms to Promote Food Science at Tuesday June 4th at 11:30am at the IFT Central Booth.
The main purpose of the panel is to understand what it takes to develop digital platforms such as blogs, podcasts, cook books, and symposiums.
The basis of the panel is to inspire people to create their own online platforms/presence. I’d love to hear some questions on if you ever planned to start a blog, or podcast, or platform, what kind of advice would help you start one? Or if you currently are doing one, what would you like to know that will help you get to the next level?
We had an amazing response on reddit’s /r/foodscience. Here are a few interesting questions below:
This is a really cool panel idea! My company’s CCO was recently interviewed on a food science career podcast, and since then I’ve had more friends/ family become interested in food science and what I do. So thank you for what you do!
As someone who used to lifestyle and travel blog in college, but stopped when I got a “real job” I have some questions on how to break into the field again. I work full time, am also studying to get my masters, and have since sworn of most social media (for mental health and for productivity). I really don’t know how to plan to restart and organize, and how to put time and dedication into something that might not take off. I am still very passionate about food, cooking, and baking, but I’ve since lost any ideas on where to start, what platforms, how to reach people. I know most podcasts and blogs are more interested in interviewing C- suite employees and such, but there are many technicians, scientists, and other employees that have stories too.
I would love to blog about food safety and program maintenance to comply with SQF and BRC. Everyone has a different interpretation of the code. It would be awesome for plants to communicate openly with program structure and content and to still maintain confidentiality.
Love it and will try to make it to the session if time permits. I’ve just started following some food science blogs so it would be cool to see where this is leading.
All the basic questions from a noob:
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– What is the potential audience and how do you find this information?
– How to monetize?
– What is the average timeline to become “successful”? Successful meaning, not costing money, simply breaking even.
– Where can we find masterminds for this?
Basically, can you just explain how this whole thing works??
Omg it’s Adam Yee!!
Love your podcast :).
I took a food blogging class last year with Craig LaBan of the Philly Inquirer. His class was awesome and now I really want to start a blog again after my first one now that I’ve seen how difficult it can be!
Something Craig always mentioned is having a very small topic and not trying to make a blog all-encompassing. So the question is, how do you find that ONE topic you want to focus on? It’s really daunting.
Coming up with a good name?
After determining the overall topic, how do you narrow the subtopics you’ll focus on?
Disciplining yourself to post often enough? What is often enough?
It’s been hard for me to figure out exactly what I want to do for my next blog so all of this is really helpful! I’ll be feeling the FOMO.
I answer some of these the best I can. If you’d like to jump in on the discussion, go ahead!
Take a look also, at the slides that will be presented. if you have any questions about anything to anyone, please message me at podcast@myfoodjobrocks.com. I want to present as much value as possible!
IFT19_Building Online Platforms to Promote Food Science (these are the slides)
