"chief evangelist" -- standard business jargon? -- since when?

[Jonathan Lighter]

It makes them holier.  Didn't I post something many years ago about
"evangelizing the product," meaning saying and doing any and every
goddamned thing up to the restrictive letter of the law to puff and promote
it?

(Like publishing your own trendy-titled, minimum-circulation newsletter
with reviews of your own products that you can quote in your ads.)

O generation of vipers!

JL

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "Evangelist" seems to have replaced "marketing officer" in job
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> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:36 PM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu
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> > when?
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> > From NY Times, March 20, 2012, Business Section, p. 1, col. 5, a story
> that
> > Google is raising its charges for providing maps used in on-line ads:
> >
> > =93If you are a site just looking to put a pizzeria on a map, it=92s no
> big
> > deal, but if you are trying to put a brand around your mapping, it=92s a
> > bi=
> > g
> > deal,=94 said James Fee, chief evangelist at WeoGeo, which provides
> > locatio=
> > n
> > data. =93Google says it will affect a very small number of users, but I
> > hav=
> > e
> > heard it will touch 30 or 40 percent of people who really depend on maps
> > for their business. It could cost you tens of thousands of dollars a
> > month.=
> > =94
> >
> > GAT
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> > --=20
> > George A. Thompson
> > Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> > Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.
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