I've written about the diffusion and adoption of an innovation before (the XO/Sugar being the innovation). Here's an interesting summary I found in context of another project, but I thought I'd pass it along.
http://www.enablingchange.com.au/Summary_Diffusion_Theory.pdf Note that apart from the mechanism itself (which was the topic of my Ph.D. dissertation http://verma.sfsu.edu/profile/phd.proposal.pdf) two points are relevant here: 1) Persuasion is not the way to go. 2) Each group has its own personality, and thus its motivators. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel