Comments on: On measuring evangelism success http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/12/17/on-measuring-evangelism-success/ For a better web with more professional jobs - can talk, will travel Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ian Forrester http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/12/17/on-measuring-evangelism-success/comment-page-1/#comment-8829 Ian Forrester Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:15:55 +0000 http://www.wait-till-i.com/?p=696#comment-8829 Excellent post Christian! Excellent post Christian!

]]> By: Henrik http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/12/17/on-measuring-evangelism-success/comment-page-1/#comment-8825 Henrik Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:25:06 +0000 http://www.wait-till-i.com/?p=696#comment-8825 At work, we really like Pipes. Just the other day we sent a tender to a client of us. The tender is based on using Pipes as the datasource for the application. No just hope the client wants to go with it. If we had'nt attended the GeekMeet in stockholm, the tender would not have been as solid and good as now, but still more expensive. Keep your fingers crossed the client will go for our solution. Ill try to keep you posted. Merry Xmas! At work, we really like Pipes. Just the other day we sent a tender to a client of us. The tender is based on using Pipes as the datasource for the application. No just hope the client wants to go with it. If we had’nt attended the GeekMeet in stockholm, the tender would not have been as solid and good as now, but still more expensive.

Keep your fingers crossed the client will go for our solution. Ill try to keep you posted.

Merry Xmas!

]]> By: Kalle Hoppe http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/12/17/on-measuring-evangelism-success/comment-page-1/#comment-8822 Kalle Hoppe Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:03:44 +0000 http://www.wait-till-i.com/?p=696#comment-8822 As I've mentioned in my blog post, this things are great. And to have the opportunity to listen to people who are developing and working with stuff like these is really rewarding. As every body knows the best way to learn new things is to learn from the experts, because they have allready made all the mistakes for you =). Then you allways have to have a nutch of skepticism on the things you learn. But one should never stop trying out new ways to get better and to listen and learn new technologies, how boring would life bee if you just settle with the tnigs you allready know. One last thing, skip religion, if you dont get out of your .net/java/php world youl end up bored. Cheers! As I’ve mentioned in my blog post, this things are great. And to have the opportunity to listen to people who are developing and working with stuff like these is really rewarding. As every body knows the best way to learn new things is to learn from the experts, because they have allready made all the mistakes for you =).
Then you allways have to have a nutch of skepticism on the things you learn. But one should never stop trying out new ways to get better and to listen and learn new technologies, how boring would life bee if you just settle with the tnigs you allready know.

One last thing, skip religion, if you dont get out of your .net/java/php world youl end up bored.

Cheers!

]]> By: Marko http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/12/17/on-measuring-evangelism-success/comment-page-1/#comment-8820 Marko Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:50:15 +0000 http://www.wait-till-i.com/?p=696#comment-8820 Thank you for interesting post on topic I thought about myself (even though I do not work as evangelist). Good evangelism goes even further. I don't use YUI or any yahoo services at the moment, but I've met you, follow your blog and had consequently pretty good opinion about Yahoo until George Oates was fired few days ago. As bogus sign-ups go, I think this can only be solved by charging a small fee. Nothing prohibitive, but enough to make a person think about seriousness of his intent. I think two-beers worth would be enough. I think there are many ways in which these money can be paid back if you want event to be free. Thank you for interesting post on topic I thought about myself (even though I do not work as evangelist). Good evangelism goes even further. I don’t use YUI or any yahoo services at the moment, but I’ve met you, follow your blog and had consequently pretty good opinion about Yahoo until George Oates was fired few days ago.

As bogus sign-ups go, I think this can only be solved by charging a small fee. Nothing prohibitive, but enough to make a person think about seriousness of his intent. I think two-beers worth would be enough. I think there are many ways in which these money can be paid back if you want event to be free.

]]> By: John Dowdell http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/12/17/on-measuring-evangelism-success/comment-page-1/#comment-8819 John Dowdell Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:48:23 +0000 http://www.wait-till-i.com/?p=696#comment-8819 Agreed... the available "soft metrics" are indirect, and susceptible to gaming... if you were given a goal of "average three comments per announcement" then that would sort of change the nature of things. Hard problem. Particularly sad on that "rsvp" issue. Maybe the problem is that signing-in to reserve a spot imposes no costs, distorting the economics? Maybe a line like "If you find you cannot attend, please remove your name, as no-shows will be barred from future events"... sounds grim, but might work? jd/adobe Agreed… the available “soft metrics” are indirect, and susceptible to gaming… if you were given a goal of “average three comments per announcement” then that would sort of change the nature of things. Hard problem.

Particularly sad on that “rsvp” issue. Maybe the problem is that signing-in to reserve a spot imposes no costs, distorting the economics? Maybe a line like “If you find you cannot attend, please remove your name, as no-shows will be barred from future events”... sounds grim, but might work?

jd/adobe

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