A fuggin evangelist!!!!!????

[barrydidit]

From the article:-

So. What is a digital prophet?

It remains unclear.

I'll tell you what it is. It's a **** who can't make a living being useful.

[Mincepie]

Just had a mail for this.

"I am recruiting for a Senior Java Developer / Agile Evangelist"

Get real.

I used have an agency invite to agile evangelist seminars for networking and nibbles. I couldnt think of anything worse i of course went to the pub instead and talked about birds and football instead

[d000hg]

Explaining something and droaning on about something with no real proven benefits are two different beasts. My experience leads me to suspect that an evangelist falls into the latter category.

An evangelist needs to be a great communicator, if they're "droning on" they're not great at the job.

[DodgyAgent]

not just a nerd who can code.

Plenty of those on here

[NickFitz]

From the article:-

So. What is a digital prophet?

It remains unclear.

I liked this bit:

The New Yorker profile reveals that Shingy, in his capacity as digital prophet, recently approached Erika Nardini, AOL’s chief marketing officer, and handed her his iPad Mini. The following conversation ensued:

‘Wanted to show you a little brain fart I had on the plane,’ he said. It was a cartoon he had drawn of a bear wearing zebra-print pants and a shirt covered in ones and zeros.

‘Love it, love it, love it,’ Nardini said. ‘I’m thinking of the bears more as a metaphor.’

‘A thousand per cent,’ Shingy said.

[DodgyAgent]

Just had a mail for this.

" Agile Evangelist"

Get real.

Conjurs up an imagine of some of the jehovah's witnesses standing outside stations with their legs behind their ears

[DaveB]

Could be worse, they could be after an In-House Tech Warlock

[oracleslave]

Could be worse, they could be after an In-House Tech Warlock

"Trend Shepherd"

[NickFitz]

Cracking bit in the New Yorker profile:

He is passionate about spaces, and when a space is not working he reboots it, taking everything out and starting over. He said, “This is a space I recently rebooted for Tim”—meaning Tim Armstrong, the C.E.O. of AOL. The room had been a standard fluorescent-lit office. Now the desk was gone, replaced by leather armchairs in a circle, and the walls were painted dark gray…

Armstrong looked around. “I have meetings here, and people don’t know where to sit,” he said.

“They’ll figure it out, man,” Shingy said.

[MrMarkyMark]

Can't be a prophet - no beard.

If he had a beard, he would like like total c@nt, rather than one that is WIP