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

[George Thompson]

Lord love a duck.

GAT

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

> "Evangelist" seems to have replaced "marketing officer" in job
> descriptions.
> DanG
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:36 PM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu
> >wrote:
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> > Poster:       George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU>
> > Subject:      "chief evangelist" -- standard business jargon? -- since
> > 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
> >
> > --=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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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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