These days you hear a lot about tipping points for various things – Jeff Jarvis refers to them all the time when he talks about citizens media.
This week I read a chapter of Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. It was about time I got around to reading at least some of the book since it’s had such a bit impact on contemporary discourse.
It’s all about people who are good connectors and how they contribute to making ideas popular. It’s a nice description of some stuff I’ve been noticing myself over the last few years.
Some people are good at initiating and maintaining casual acquaintanceships – they tend to know a lot of people and keep up with them and are good at putting people in touch with each other and leveraging their connections to get things done – get someone a job, put a group together for a particular purpose.
