Circuit riders

by | Mar 26, 2006 | Everything Else | 2 comments

Last week at the NTC conference, I kept hearing the term “circuit rider” bandied around. I finally happened to ask the very kind Deborah Elizabeth Finn to relieve me of the burden of trying to bluff my way through those conversations. She obliged with an enthralling account of the rise and eventual transformation of a movement of tech evangelists bringing the gospel of wired wonderment to non-profit organizations.I won’t try to capture it here because a) I can’t remember all the details, b) I’d get some vital stuff wrong and c) I don’t want to deprive Deborah of any reason to tell this story herself; she does it wonderfully. But I do want to thank her publicly, and encourage people to pester her to tell it to them first-hand.

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  1. Marshall Kirkpatrick
    Marshall Kirkpatrick on 13 Apr 2006 at 08:39

    Cool! I’ll totally remember to do that next time I see her. Maybe a podcast interview would be in order too? The stuff of history I’m sure. In fact, a whole series on web evangalism 1.0 would probably be a very good idea. I know Beth Kanter has some stories to tell and ties lessons learned at that time in directly with today.(In this interview I did with her, for example: http://netsquared.org/kanter ) But these sound like audio stories that need to be told and recorded!

  2. Rob
    Rob on 13 Apr 2006 at 10:13

    I know I’d tune in. (Or whatever the podcast equivalent is of tuning in.)

    By the way, if I remember correctly, Deborah told me there’s a load of tape out there somewhere, prepared for a celebratory event a few years back. That could be well worth podcasting…

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