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De acuerdo al libro de Malcom Gladwell The Tipping Point (discutido aquí y aquí), los Conectores –la gente con amigos y conocidos en una variedad de mundos sociales – son cruciales en lograr viralizar la información. ¿Pero de dónde sacan esta información?  (more…)

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Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
New York: Little, Brown, 2000

El hijo de un padre inglés y una madre jamaiquina, Malcom Gladwell es el autor de cinco libros e incontables artículos, la mayoría de ellos publicados en el The New Yorker, dónde él es redactor. (more…)

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En su libro The Tipping Point (reseñado aquí), Malcolm Gladwell habla sobre la importancia de las personas que él llama Conectores, Expertos, y Vendedores en la propagación viral de las ideas. Los Conectores son personas que tienen el don de hacer amigos y conocidos. (more…)

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D’après le livre de Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point [Le point de basculement] (discuté ici et ici), les Connecteurs – les gens ayant des amis et des connaissances dans de nombreux mondes sociaux différents – sont cruciaux pour faire en sorte que l’information devienne virale. Mais où obtiennent-ils leur information ?  (more…)

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Note de l’auteur:

Le texte suivant est la transcription par V.S. d’un discours que j’ai prononcé à  Stockholm le 26 septembre.  (more…)

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Author’s Note:

The following text is the transcription by V.S. of a talk I gave in Stockholm on September 26th. 

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According to Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point (discussed here and here), Connectors — people with friends and acquaintances in many different social worlds — are crucial in making information go viral. But where do they get their information?

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In his book The Tipping Point (reviewed here), Malcolm Gladwell talks about the importance of people he calls Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen in the viral propagation of ideas. Connectors are people who have a gift for making friends and acquaintances. Gladwell attributes this knack to “some combination of curiosity, self-confidence, sociability, and energy” (p. 49).  (more…)

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Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
New York: Little, Brown, 2000

The son of an English father and a Jamaican mother, Malcom Gladwell is the author of five books and countless articles, many of them published in The New Yorker, where he is a staff writer. (more…)