Taking Stock of My ChocolateLife | #PodSaveChocolate Ep87

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Episode 87 Overview

One of the questions I am asked most often is how I decided to become a chocolate critic in the first place. The answer is simple in one sense but extremely complex in many others.

In this episode, I am going to explain what I mean by that characterization, and the methods I use, including some very recent thinking I have been doing that will influence the future directions of TheChocolateLife community – in context.

My hope is that by narrating my journey I may help you navigate yours.

SWOT

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A SWOT – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats – Analysis is a tool to evaluate a business, project, and/or personal situation. This approach is evaluated by my education and training in the fine arts.
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A Visual Guide to Change

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’Casts

The Clubhouse Affair
After 29 weeks I announced I was stopping the daily rooms to take a break to reset.

I hosted 149 episodes over 29 weeks in 2021

#TheChocolateLifeLIVE Archive
News, views, and conversations on topics in cocoa and chocolate streamed live to YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

I hosted 145 episodes between Nov 2021 and Nov 2023

#PodSaveChocolate Calendar & Archive
News, views, and conversations on topics in cocoa and chocolate streamed live to YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook. #PodSaveChocolate! [ Updated November 18th, 2024. ]

This is episode 87


Unmet Challenges

I tried to replace the community component on Ning/Jamroom, which Ghost lacks, with an open-source version of Slack called Rocket Chat. Endlessly configurable and thus impossible to implement and manage at the scale of TheChocolateLife community, Rocket Chat had a negative ROI.

I attempted to address this challenge by implementing an SSO solution that was made extra challenging because Jamroom (on which the archive site is based) uses passwords and Ghost (the active site) does not.

Future Directions

In the closing part of the episode, I will share some ideas I have for TheChocolateLife in 2025 – and preview non-ChocolateLife initiatives I am collaborating on.


Questions?

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Future Episodes

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Tuesday, December 17th
Nothing scheduled at publication time

#PodSaveChocolate and #TheChocolateLifeLIVE Archives

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PodSaveChocolate
Hosted by Clay Gordon, the creator and moderator of TheChocolateLife.com, #PodSaveChocolate covers a wide variety of topics in the worlds of cocoa and chocolate. The video versions of this podcast are hosted and archived on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Click on the PodSaveChocolate link in the top nav on TheChocolateLife for the links to the post accompanying each episode.

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