I’m excited to announce that, as of last week, I have a new role at Ektron as Chief Evangelist. What’s an evangelist? As others have already written, the title can be confusing for those unfamiliar with the role popularized by people like Guy Kawasaki/Apple and Robert Scoble/Microsoft. As Guy points out in the Art of the Evangelist, it has actually become a fairly mainstream job over the past few years.
As Chief Evangelist one of my goals is to lead initiatives that build a positive relationship between Ektron and the members of our dev community. But rather than write about all the new things I’ll be doing and what this new role means to me, let’s instead focus on how this goal relates to developers. Having this role at Ektron means that you’ll have someone focused on:
- Education Making sure you have the information available online you need to do your job effectively. For starters, we’re launching a developer screencast series focused on short videos released frequently to help you dive deep into different areas of the CMS. These screencasts come replete with code samples and documentation. Anything is on the table, new technology, APIs, etc. We’re taking requests, so let us know what you want to see!
- Community Building the online and offline community experience. We’re making a large investment in the DevCenter year and expect big things from it (some hints coming soon in future posts). We're going to be recognizing stellar individuals from our developer community for their active involvement and supporting them in their outstanding efforts.
- Feedback Collecting your feedback and creating a feedback channel where you can see the effects of your input in the technology you’re using.
I’m jazzed about this new role and am eager to get things moving! If you want to get in touch, send me mail or connect on twitter @billcava.