Im Not a Guy Kind of Evangelist

You know, my title (technical evangelist) bugs me. It bugs others too (especially in Europe, where people give me very strange looks when they see my business card). Why? Cause of its religious connotations. I didn't realize why it bugged me until I read (he was the tech industry's first evangelist, worked for Apple). See, he looks at the products he's evangelizing as a "cause." I don't look at the world that way. If I have a "cause" it's the digital lifestyle. That's what I'd like to get people into. Wanna know when the next bus is coming? I'll be demoing Windows Vista at the Northern Voice conference in Vancouver on February 10. I'm looking for a few skeptics to be there! By the way, what Microsoft's Evangelists mostly do is help software developers build software for the next version of whatever we're selling. Imagine if Bill Gates says "today we're shipping Windows Vista but there's no software that works on it." An evangelist in that role needs to be up on the latest technology (for instance, we know that Windows Vista doesn't run in administrator mode anymore, so that'll break some applications that software developers wrote for OS's where they could assume most users would be in administrator mode. That's why we talk to developers a lot about what that means and Robert Scoble is the founder of the PodTech.net's Vice President of Media Development.

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