Zatz Not Living Digitally

February 13th, 2007 Davis Posted in Slingbox |

I’m a little late posting this, but still wanted to get this out there. For those of you who haven’t heard, Dave Zatz has agreed to join Sling Media in their marketing department. The change is a pretty big change of pace compared to his work as a network administor, but I’m sure that if anyone is up for the challenge it will be Dave.

I think that Sling made a really smart hire by picking up Dave. I’ve known Dave for a couple of years now and I can’t think of anyone more qualified for being an evangelist for a tech company. Dave is filling some pretty big shoes in his new role at Sling though. Previously, Jeremy Toeman had been in charge of making sure that the lines of communication between Sling and their customers stayed open, but when he left to start his own consulting practice, Sling was left with a pretty big void to fill. I’m sure that that the Zatzman will do a great job in his new role, but it won’t be easy with the bar having been set so high.

Ironically, Netgear has gone on to hire Jeremy to do some consulting work for them and initially he is going to be helping to develop out the Netgear blog that Dave Zatz guest blogged on at CES this year. I had also applied to be a Netgear guest blogger for CES, but lost out to Dave. I’ll be excited to watch how Jeremy uses his expertise to build out and optimize Netgear’s blog. He writes some really great reviews, one of my favorite articles from CES this year was Jeremy’s review of Netgear’s EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD. This machine looks really hot. Hopefully, it won’t take long before Netgear turns on comments and starts up an RSS feed to make it easier to monitor the site.