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→ David Noël: Evangelism

An Evangelist will most likely spend his day & most of his nights communicating, informing, teaching, solving, helping, connecting, moderating, arguing, motivating, getting & keeping people excited about what you, your company and its product do. You’re a company’s sonar, you listen to what is being said outside and you channel that feedback into the product.

Even better when it doesn’t stop there: at the same time you’re excited about an entire industry (tech & music - in that order) or a ‘movement’ (open source, API’s, entrepreneurship, independent artists) and you’re an advocate for remarkable things and people working hard every day to make a change.

If you find the company you love and end up being its Evangelist, you probably have found your dream job. You can’t call it a job though, it’s so much more than that.

Read the whole post from David.

This is exactly how I feel about HereToNetwork. Once we got underway with development at the Birmingham Launch48 event, it hit me that this startup was exactly what I’ve been looking for.

The problem we are going to solve is how to ensure that event attendees meet with relevant people to make the most powerful connections. Our solution to this is so exciting and so pleasing to me personally that I absolutely have to be working on it.

We are solving a problem that I unearthed while writing my post graduate dissertation on networking and social capital in the web2.0 industry, but I didn’t properly recognise it or wonder how it could be solved.