This has to be the best new job title. George Mason University is looking for a Technology Evangelist. Quoth GMU:
The Center for History & New Media at George Mason University is seeking a technology evangelist for Zotero (www.zotero.org), an open source bibliographic management and note-taking tool for the Firefox web browser. The technology evangelist will be responsible for building alliances with scholarly organizations and libraries, encouraging scholars to try Zotero, developing and maintaining user documentation, and building awareness of this next-generation research tool. We are looking for an energetic, well-organized individual with excellent written and oral communication skills.
One would assume they also would like to see evidence of prior evangelism, evidence of your skills in bringing fire-and-brimstone rhetoric to the job, and an accomplished record of circuit-riding through the South in the early 1800s and then mid-1900s and then early 2000s again, preaching the gospel. I also assume that strong applicants will have references from other leading technology evangelists (my guess is that Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are in this mix), though you probably shouldn't foreground your work with Jim and Tammy Faye Baker in the '80s.
Oh, and familiarity "with relevant technologies (e.g., XML, RDF, metadata standards, and Firefox extensions)," of course.
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Actually, that job title has been around since the mid-1980s. I used to see headers like "Apple Evangelist" in want ads back when I was working in computer user support.
Good point Julie, but I apparently forgot to say at the top that this was a reprint of an old past I wrote in the late '80s, right after watching some re-runs of Joe Piscopo on SNL and right before writing my 11th grade science report on the Challenger explosion and New Coke.
That explains it.