What does a guy say when quite possibly the greatest opportunity of his life just came along? Dang, I wish I knew. What I do know is that on Monday morning I begin a new phase of my career as
Telligent System's first
Community Server Evangelist.
As Rob Howard noted when he
announced the position earlier today, my role, in a nutshell, will be to help find, share, and connect people to Community Server.
More specifically, I will be authoring a Community Server Daily News blog, which I plan to pattern after the daily news blog that started it all and remains supreme, Mike Gunderloy's
The Daily Grind. I'll let you know when Volume 1, No. 1 is online.
I will also be spending quality time in the
Community Server Forums, building relationships, monitoring the issues users are having, coordinating and delegating to find solutions, assuring users that we're listening. Lots of good potential there as time allows. I'll talk more about other aspects of my Community Evangelist role soon.
Funny, when
Jason Alexander first described the position to me on the phone, my response was something like, "Jason, I've got a pretty good understanding of the objective and responsibilities of a Telligent Community Server Evangelist from your description, but I do have a question. 'DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE GOING TO PAY ME FOR DOING THAT????'"
If I have anything very insightful to share about this new and wonderful phase of my life that's about to begin, it's this:
Follow your passions. The reason this opportunity has come my way is because I am passionate about Community Server. I love it. Since its release I've spent as much time as possible working with Community Server, learning more about it and building relationships with other developers and users who love it, too. Follow your passions, whatever they might be, and good things will surely happen.
On that note of sharing the passion and the Community Server Love, let me give you my new Telligent email address: davebu@telligent.com.
[tags: Community Server, Telligent]