ChefTalk 2007 upgrades retrospective

The past year seems like it has been one long endless stream of upgrades to ChefTalk. Although the upgrades can be time consuming I am extremely happy to see how much ChefTalk has grown as a result of the upgrades. Here are a list of some of what has happened this past year:

• Photo Gallery
• Regular monthly newsletter (teamed up with globalchefs.com)
• Special guest forums (Harold McGee, Rick Bayless)
• Blogs
• New layout to the main site (in progress)
• Addition of RSS feeds for the cook book review and cooking articles section.
• New book reviews editor Brook Elliot joined the team
• New cook book reviewers
• Professional chef job board and search (teamed up with Hcareers.com)
• Created the beverage review site bevreview.com
• Added Siliconecookware.net to the ChefTalk network
• Added more search engine friendly forum urls

What is even more amazing to consider is that there are even more features coming in 2008. As result of some of these upgrades we have some incredible stats:

Community Members: 12,279
Mailing list subscribers: 12,000+

Thank you everyone for helping to keep ChefTalk.com around (almost 10 years now).

Well that is it for now.

Whoa hoa my first blog entry!