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Digital Coach
Through lifehacking.nl I came across the plea from Seth Godin for more digital coaches:
"Here's what I haven't found: people who charge $100 an 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."
Several times in the past people asked me for digital advise, e.g on the best blogging tool, how to use Flickr, or what Twitter is. In the past few years I've set up blogs for my father, brother, mother and clients. Only recently I sent out an invitation for a community site for the first time. For Dopplr actually, and I invited my brother, who is a very frequent flyer across Europe, to share his whereabouts with me.
I talk about tools to people, but always ask them about their communicative goals. I don't to tell people to start using a tool if it doesn't serve them a purpose. Joining Twitter is no fun when no-one else you know uses it.
After her invitation for the Ning group Vanstart (a Dutch group for people starting their business), Joitske asked a question about her new website. I've helped Joitske out with her decision for her new website. In the end she decided to skip Blogger and install Wordpress on her own domain. In one e-mail she actually said to me that I knew so much, that she'd almost wanted to pay for my help.
I've been wondering for a while now what I really like to do, business wise. I know that I like coaching, considering the fun I have coaching the kids at the fencing club. I know that I'm fascinated with internet communication tools. So I think that a combination of the two, by Godin described as Digital Coach, would be ideal for me. I'd love to help people out with finding their way in web 2.0 and its upgrades. I'd love for helping (project)teams to communicate and capture their progress better (and with more fun!). I'd love to encourage people to overcome their fear for all things digital and learn them how to be in control of their powerful calculator, instead of the other way around.
Question is, who needs such services AND is willing to pay for it?
