Mavening

I found this thought to be very intreaguing and stimulating hence i decided to see if i could find some more mavens out there to help me understand a little more about things I don't know much about. The tipping point - Malcom Gladwell Gladwell identifies three types of people who have the power to produce social epidemics: * Connectors: Those with wide social circles. They are the "hubs" of the human social network and responsible for the small world phenomenon. * Mavens are knowledgeable people. While most consumers wouldn't know if a product were priced above the market rate by, say, 10 percent, mavens would. Bloggers who detect false claims in the media could also be considered mavens. * Salesmen are charismatic people with powerful negotiation skills. They exert "soft" influence rather than forceful power. Their source of influence may be the tendency of others, subconsciously, to imitate them rather than techniques of conscious persuasion.

A '''maven''' (also ''mavin'' or ''mayvin'') is regarded by cohorts as a trusted expert in a particular field, and who seeks to pass his or her knowledge on to others. ==History== The word comes from the [[Yiddish]] ''meyvn'' and [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] ''mevin'' (מבֿין), with the same meaning, which in turn derives from the Hebrew ''binah'', meaning ''understanding''. It was first recorded in [[English language|English]] around 1952, and popularized in the 1960s by a series of commercials for [[Vita Herring]] created by [[Martin Solow]], featuring "The Beloved Herring Maven.." Since the 1980s it has become more common since [[William Safire]] adepted it to describe himself ("the language maven"). The word is mainly confined to [[American English]], but had not yet appeared with the publication of the 1976 edition of Webster's Third New Int...