Yep, The Tipping Point is a really popular book (he credits it in his blog which is nice). What is interesting to me is I think the trick is getting the word to the mavens, not the connectors. Then the mavens talk to the connectors and the connectors talk to the world.
But I think having the mavens "bless" a product is a much more powerful first step, even if it is less direct than going straight to the connectors. Anyways, thank you very much for the pointer - will send an offer of a free copy to all of them. Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544 -----Original Message----- From: Leon Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 8:08 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Friday] - finding the Mavens in the Java world David Geary (http://www.jroller.com/page/dgeary) states himself as maven on his page, and writes some other names: http://jroller.com/page/dgeary?catname=%2FRuby+on+Rails Connectors are people who are extraordinarily connected to other people: they are the people who seem to know everybody. Mavens, on the other hand, are people who love to acquire knowledge on all sorts of topics and, perhaps more importantly, love to tell others about what they've learned (in fact, the word maven comes from Yiddish and means someone who accumulates knowledge). Both mavens and connectors are crucial for affecting a tipping point. I don't know about other programming communities, but in the Java world, Rails has been enthusiastically adopted by (at least) the following connectors and mavens: * James Duncan Davidson (ANT) * Mike Clark (Pragmatic Automation) * Jason Hunter (Java Servlet Programming) * Bruce Tate (Bitter Java, Spring Dev Notebook) * Dion Almaer (Founder of theserverside.com) * Stuart Holloway (Component Dev for Java) * Justin Gehtland (Better, Faster, Lighter Java) * Glenn Vanderburg (Tricks of the Java Programming Gurus) * Your humble servant (Graphic Java, Core JSF) He's talking about mavens in RoR context, but a maven is a maven, is a maven, isn't it?:-9 regards Leon On 2/3/06, David Thielen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all; > > > > For those of you that have read The > <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316346624/sr=1-1/qid=1138589404/ref=pd_bb > s_1/002-3569767-9990453?%5Fencoding=UTF8> Tipping Point, this will make > sense (I think). For those that haven't, a maven is a person that trys just > about every interesting program they see, and then tells others what they > think about it. They're the ones the rest of us depend on to tell us what is > worth trying and what new programs we should just skip. > > > > We want to give a free copy of Windward Reports > <http://www.windwardreports.com/> to all mavens in the Java (and .NET) > programming world (value $1,134.00). No conditions or requirements or > anything like that. A free regular copy with no limitations except that they > cannot resell it. > > > > Why? > > > > We figure if we give them a copy, they might use it. And if they use it, we > figure they'll probably post or write about it. So we're not asking them to > do anything - but we figure our odds are pretty good they will. (Yes, we > believe that much in our reporting engine.) > > > > So. Any ideas on how to find these people and make the offer to them? > > > > Thanks - dave > > > > > > David Thielen > > <http://www.windwardreports.com> www.windwardreports.com > > 303-499-2544 > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
