1. What method did Georgia Sadler find to tip her diabetes/cancer campaign? Would you classify her as a connector, maven, or salesman?
Georgia went to chyrches to try to get the message out but it didn't work because no one else was going through what she was. Whe then took her campaign to salons where it was more welcome. She would keep updaed infromation available. She made sure to write it up in large print and put i on laminated shees. I would consider her a Maven.
2. What is Gladwell’s view of a Band-Aid solution?
Gladwell's Band-Aid solution is an inexpensive, convinient, and versatile solution. it involves solving problems with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.
3. What two lessons does he mention from the Tipping Point?
The two lessons are:
1) Starting epidemics requires focusing resources on a few key areas. 2) Those who are successful at creating social epidemics do not just do what the think is right. They deliberately test their intuitions.
Afterword. Tipping arePoint Lessons from the Real World
1. How might the AIDS epidemic have been better combated if it had been examined as a social phenomenon?
It would have been better combatted because it was passed among social circles. If the word could have been spresd about it correctly, maybe people would have been mor causious.
2. What does Gladwell mean when he writes that “we are about to enter the age of word of mouth” (on page 264)?
3. What does Gladwell mean by the phrase “the Age of Isolation”?
He is saying we are in an age of isolation. We are about being secretive and quiet about how we are. Teenagers do not mimic an adult practice or react to something the adult world has imposed on them. They are simply following the internal rules of their cultures, as if they were entirely blind to what adults said and did. We have given teens more time to spend among themselves - and less time in the company of adults. We are helping them become isolated.
4. What is Gladwell’s take on school shootings like Columbine?
Gladwell says its a mistake to try and make sense of these kinds of shootings. Columbines Dyland and Eric have caused many "copied" shootings. They are trying to be like them because they seem to be heros in he teenage mind. It only makes sense in the closed mind of the teenager.
5. What is the “fax effect”? How does “immunity” negate the “fax effect”?
The fax effect is the idea of a new way to network. When only one person has a fax machine, it does no good because no one can receive thier fax. I think eventually hose wih faxs machines will become immune, if not already because of texting, and all of he many different networking items we use now could soon become immune to us and we will be in search of new ways to network wih others.
