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Long-time Microsoft evangelist retires

Long-time Microsoft evangelist retiresGood LuckI had the privilege of working for Sanjay for a short time at Developer & Platform Evangelism and he will be missed at Microsoft. Best of luck, Sanjay, in your next phase of life.Yeah, good luck Sanjay, see you in KeralaAs a former MS evangelist I...

Tags: Sanjay, evangelist, Long-time Microsoft evangelist, LONG-time Microsoft

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Who will be Microsoft's next top evangelist?

Who will be Microsoft's next top evangelist?Everyone is hiring analystsEven little Opera hired the one guy who had a decent blog about the product. Daniel Goldman at Operawatch is now an "Evangelist" for the company. Mary are you next?None Of The AboveProbably No-Fax-On-Mind or Love-Croc. Linux Run Backward...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, evangelist, Mary, Mike Cox, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-02-15

Who will be Microsoft's next top evangelist?

Microsoft is snapping up some off-the-beaten-path hires, as of late.The latest to join The Empire: Former Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg. In his new role at Microsoft, Gartenberg will be "an enthusiast evangelist." This new group of individuals is charged with doing "outreach to users" and creating new content for...

Tags: Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-02-15

Can Apple stick around?

Former evangelist speculates on future of companyGuy Kawasaki, a former Apple employee and current CEO of Garage Technology Ventures, further discusses Steve Jobs' role in putting the pieces back together, how Apple achieves its success, and what the future holds. CNET News.com's Amanda Termen reports.

Tags: Apple Computer Inc.

Videos 2006-03-30

Evangelist wanted, apply within

Evangelist wanted, apply withinThat's nothin'You think Evangelist is a strange title, try

Tags: evangelist

Discussion threads 2006-02-27

Evangelist wanted, apply within

Newsgroups... that's probably where it first got started. Employees and enthusiasts giving advice and helping out new users. In the beginning, it was on their own time. Next there were blogs. Again, informal at first. Truth be told, many were started against company wishes. One to one contact with...

Tags: evangelist, Evangelist

Blog posts 2006-02-26

Crosstown Traffic

Now that David Weinberger has released himself from any responsibility for keeping up with blogs, I'm taking the opportunity to release myself from being an evangelist about anything. I hereby renounce the thought that I am carrying the ball, the water, the meme, or any other burden--for RSS, attention, podcasting,...

Tags: evangelist, RSS

Blog posts 2005-06-20

Additional Resources

Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics

Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition. But Mozilla could be one step ahead. Last week, Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition. But if Mozilla succeeds in its hope, Microsoft could be playing catch-up...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Graphics, Web Browsers, Internet, IE9, Microsoft, PDC, browser, Stephen Shankland CNET News

News items 2009-11-24

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

How to avoid the amateur cloud

You are cluelessMaybe a large company would do enough research to weed out a bad cloud provider from a good one, but the fact is cloud services are being pitched at **individuals**.No one will do the required research, and you know it. But as a nice cloud evangelist that's your...

Tags: cloud provider

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

The case of the fake money-mules: Inside the URLZone Trojan network

Security EvangelistHi, boy I sure wish people would stop using the word Evangelist in the wrong way. An Evangelist is someone you preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not a secular title at all. Wikipedia recently removed the secular definition and Webster is researching it. Evangelist is from the Greek...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Banking, E-business/E-commerce, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, Personal finance, SECURITY, network, trojan horse, online banking, bank, virus

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

jQuery Enlightenment: For the intermediate to advanced Javascripter

jQuery evangelist Cody Lindley, creator of Thickbox, has just published a great book for the not-so-beginner Javascript coder called jQuery Enlightenment. Lindley wrote the book for three kinds of people: The intermediate Javascripter that...

Tags: JavaScript, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Annual cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion

I'm not buying their claims.. It looks like they're declaring all IT activities as a failure which is patently ridiculous.. The companies I support rarely experience a failure. I do the product evaluations up front and determine if a product is worthy of purchase and deployment. I use...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, software, CPU, information technology, IT Failure

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Pay to play: The vendor / analyst mating dance

Analyst Liability?Could you imagine if a customer held an analyst liable if their review/recommendation was markedly different than the customer's experience? I know your Devil's Triangle theory would make it near impossible to "pin" it on the analyst review, but it is an intriguing idea given the "mating dance" you...

Tags: Pay-to-play

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

'Cultures of participation' and IT success

Definitely agree participation is keyI couldn't agree more that the aspects outlined in the graphic depicting IT project success are immensely critical. With almost 20 years of IT project participation in large and small IT shops, the projects that had those aspects were hands down more successful than the...

Tags: Strategy, Groupware, Human Factors, information technology, collaboration

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.

Richard M. Stallman RMS the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has labeled prominent Open Source software developer Miguel De Icaza a "Traitor" for  joining the Board of Directors of Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation as well as for his creation of the Microsoft .NET-compatible Mono software development...

Tags: Ubuntu, Free Software Foundation, GNOME, Microsoft Corp., Richard Stallman, Miguel De Icaza, Mono Framework, Genie, Linux, Open Source, C#, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, .Net, Operating Systems, Software, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Does Oracle matter to open source

only as long as Oracle fights M$the reason OSS is doing very well is because people hate M$ and proprietary software in general.As long as Oracle will fund this insurgency against the evil M$ empire everybody will be better off.Eventually M$ will collapse like the Soviet Union and great days...

Tags: open source, proprietary software, OSS, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Who's developing Linux?

A few questionsI'm not very surprised, but I do have a few questions.1. With Academia you mean not a company, but universities all over the world? Linguistically, it would appeal to the classical Latinist in me... :-)However, in that case, I'm a bit disappointed by the lack of kernel input...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux Kernel Development, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Deconstructing United Airlines: Where Customers are Transactions

Nothing new!I've had similar experiences with United.We tried to go from Baltimore to Florida...http://jeffstravellog.blogspot.com/2008/12/27-december-2008-miami-florida-nope.htmlThen we tried again the next day...http://jeffstravellog.blogspot.com/2009/01/28-december-2008-islamorada-florida-for.htmlNever had issues like this with any other airlines.A Contrary ViewWow, United really pulled your chain, as indicated by your investment in your extensive post. You cite some sad cases of...

Tags: United Airlines, Customers Ltd., United Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room

The Federal Communications Commission held a series of discussions about broadband polices, wiring rural locales and fostering innovation, but the elephant in the room was funding. The rough goal of the Feds' national broadband dreams is to wire everything in a high-speed access utopia. Radio waves, fixed...

Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-14