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September 08, 2005
A perfect job title
Vint Cerf, commonly known as the Father of the Internet, is leaving MCI to join Google with this job title: Chief Internet Evangelist.
It describes exactly what he's done in his past work, and what he'll continue to do in his future work.
The prominence of Cerf with his new title can only add to the cause of those who hope to make it their future job title. A quick Google search produces some notable chief evangelists:
* Connie Smith, Chief Evangelist, Envision
* Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist, Sun Microsystems
* Bill Durr, Chief Evangelist, Blue Pumpkin
* Paul Strassmann, One NASA Chief Evangelist, NASA
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Bruce Powel Douglass, Chief Evangelist, iLogix
* Betsy Weber, Chief Evangelist, TechSmith
But for a pioneer like Vint Cerf, it's as if the title should be retired after he does.
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I love the idea of companies getting away from the Tired titles and moving towards Inspired ones. One of our principals is Courageous President. The other is Chief Inspiration Officer...
I just got hired as Chief Blogger at a startup.
Chief Blogger: Another job title of the future! Congrats, Tara. What's the startup? Or is the company in stealth mode?
We are still tentatively Ojos, Inc. TechCrunch did a nice preview on us here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChurchOfTheCustomer?m=261
We're not good at being stealth, obviously. ;) I guess that's why they hired a chief blogger. Munjal (http://munjal.typepad.com/recognizing_deven/) is an interesting CEO. He doesn't believe in traditional marketing and has thrown all his faith behind the blogosphere.
I'm totally inspired (and lucky) to work here!
Tara
