Seth Godin

In response to Seth Godin’s post regarding Digital Coaches and how it is in line with the career path I am taking, a few of us have got together and created a Digital Coach Discussion List.

The purpose of the list is:

“… dedicated to the concept of Digital Coaching best practices, discussion, and sharing of resources and knowledge.”

What is a Digital Coach?

A freelancer (individual) who usually works with entrepreneurs, small groups or companies to teach them how to dramatically improve productivity or market presence using technology.

For example, a digital coach might hook up your cell phone to be more powerful or teach you how to use blogs and Facebook to connect to your audience.

It’s in it’s early stages, so feel free to join up now and follow the discussions.

Here are three things that are true:

1. Digital technology, especially computers and cell phones, can dramatically increase productivity.

2. More and more users of digital technology are small firms or individuals.

3. The vast majority of users of digital technology are totally lame in getting the most out of the investment of their time and money.

“Oh, I didn’t know I could do that.”

“You mean I don’t have to manually type my address book in by hand?”

“There are graphs in Excel?”

“Gmail is free?”

Here’s what I haven’t found: people who charge $100 a hour to hear what you do and how you do it and then show you how to do it better. People who organize data and put it in the right place. People who overhaul the way small groups use technology so they can use it dramatically better.

People who use copilot to take over a PC and actually rearrange it so that it works better.

I bet you’re out there. I bet there are people looking for you. Show yourselves!

(via Seth Godin)