Go to the light
Friday, May 05 2006 | Author and
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Rachel Berry
| NW tech news
It used to be the rare company that had an official
evangelist by title -- and having one on board
indicated that the company was trendy or cutting
edge. Apple actually began the practice in the 1980s
with
Guy Kawasaki. Somehow, unlike
other unique-to-tech industry inventions that
disappeared with the burst of the bubble, the
title "evangelist" has become more popular than
ever and is now widely accepted in the
Northwest. There's Microsoft's well-known
technical evangelist
Robert Scoble, chief
evangelist
Connie Smith at
Envision, and even
self-titled technology evangelist
Robert Sanzalone -- plus,
there are open requisitions for evangelists at
Amazon. Perhaps VOXUS needs to keep up with this
seriously hip title trend...can I get an "Amen?"
-posted by Rachel