Though I am tempted to launch into my decennial argument that the decade doesn’t end until we reach 2011, everyone is already starting to put out retrospective lists of the current decade.
By way of Michael Silence over at No Silence Here, I have been reviewing the Webby Awards’ list of the ten most influential internet moments of the decade. Mostly, it got me thinking about how the work I do has been affected by the ongoing evolution in digital communications and social media.
I’d like to write a more in-depth blog post article about this topic, but I need your help. Why not share some thoughts with me on how the internet has changed the way you work (or even your occupation entirely) in the past ten years in the comments section. Feeling shy? Feel free to send me a note to blog (at) shanerhyne.com
As a chef I have seen the Internet change the restaurant industry by leaps and bounds in the last 10 years, starting off is the amount of recipes and instructions of techniques that there are on the Internet. Ordering supplies has also been changed by local food distributions that have online ordering programs decreasing time spent calling people and looking for new product and comparing prices. On the management side of things the Internet Has made my job way easier on the organization and training level. I use google docs to write and organize all my recipes, make all my training materials, make work schedules thru a spreadsheet, and making order guides thru my spreadsheets. Then I use the google cloud to communicate with everybody in my staff about changes in presentations, procedures, and policies. When it comes to the restaurant guests, people can now go online to websites like yelp and urbanspoon.com to get ratings and feedback on what people think of the local restaurants. I have been working in restaurants since 1988 and I must say that the Internet has made me a better chef in all aspects of this job.
Chef Franco Rivera
The French market