Adoption of Innovation over Time

Chris, Depending on the scenario I'm an innovator to early majority. Since reading the tipping point I've been trying to aim for being more of an early adopter. According to Gladwell the Early Adopters "translate" a ridiculous idea created by the innovator into something the early majority can get on board with. I love innovating, but often find myself out on the limb alone wishing my idea made a little more sense to more people. I've been working at doing more "translating" or finding someone who's an early adopter to translate my idea into something spreadable.

Chris, Great post ... Randy's response above is another reason I'm determined to make re:create. Speaking of that CCLI survey .... I "heard" that TheWorshipCommunity.Com was on that list of sites they talked about? Anyway ...one blogger to another, though we don't really know each other personally ... let me turn it around and ask "where would YOU put ME on that chart"? For the Kingdom, Fred McKinnon www.fredmckinnon.com www.theworshipcommunity.com

Rogers book "Diffusion of Innovations" is a classic study that has stood the test of time. His book has influenced me as much as any book in the last 20 years. It is where I derived one of cre:ate's three-fold goals. 1)encouragement 2)refreshment 3)diffusion of ideas our cre:ate thinktank is primarily composed of the first two categories of the curve. The first 19%. as proven by CCLI's survey presentation last year. Great post! More thoughts? Randy

@Pat I should have said that in the majority of cases I go back and forth between early adopter and early majority. But yes, I think lots of us would like to be innovators.

I'd say I'm probably in the early-to-late majority, though I wish I was in the innovators area.