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Robert Scoble is a technical evangelist who works for Microsoft and maintains the popular blog, . He lives in Bothell, Washington.

Although Scoble often promotes Microsoft products like Tablet PCs and Windows Vista, at the same time he criticizes his own employer and praises its competitors (like Apple Computer and Google). However, some argue that the modest measure of criticism leveled at Microsoft and praise toward competitors serves only to give his Microsoft evangelism credibility. He publishes his cell phone number on his blog and urges people to contact him directly with issues, as well as accepting comments on his blog.

Scoble has long been known as a prominent advocate of both RSS technology and the Tablet PC. He has previously been involved with both these technologies in a professional capacity: at NEC Mobile Solutions, where he was sales support manager, and UserLand Software, where he was director of marketing.

Besides blogging, Scoble is part of the Channel9 MSDN Videos team producing educational and evangelist mini-films targeted towards students and professional developers.

The Economist described Robert Scoble's influence in its February 15, 2005 edition:

He has become a minor celebrity among geeks worldwide, who read his blog religiously. Impressively, he has also succeeded where small armies of more conventional public-relations types have been failing abjectly for years: he has made Microsoft, with its history of monopolistic bullying, appear marginally but noticeably less evil to the outside world, and especially to the independent software developers that are his core audience.

Bibliography

Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, (2006) Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. ISBN 047174719X

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