Comments on: Passionates

By: RC Modellbau Shop

RC Modellbau Shop — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:15:04 +0000

“In other words, the task is not always to make people passionate about something, itâ€™s to show them how technology (or your product, etc) can make them even better at what theyâ€™re passionate about.” – I agree here. We have passionate RC shoppers and we try to offer them the latest technical info and products to meet their passion.

By: plavix

plavix — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:48:42 +0000

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By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:46:37 +0000

I think that the most important thing it is not to find these passionate people, there are a lot of them in all the areas, it is to make people passionate about something, for example about the new technology.

By: Billigflug

Billigflug — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:53:06 +0000

I totally agree to shamaras #6 opinion. Anyway you canÂ´t connect or equalize the terms of passion and early adopters, since the is no dependend correlation. Some people might be passionate about living in mud huds without any technology, other people do love other things, e.g. give you technologies a try.

By: Loznica

Loznica — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:22:27 +0000

Hi, I just dropped in to say how much I like your whole blog. You really write for people and have a great content too. Guess I am a passionate about good content.

By: John B.

John B. — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:39:01 +0000

I’ve worked at two companies (founded by the same person) that have attempted to create successful online virtual worlds. The first one just wanted people to come and hang out while the second one promoted itself as a place where people could come and create 3D ojbects like clothing and rooms. Both had a large amount of early adopters, but guess which one is floundering while the other is doing pretty well…

There is something to your product/service having a point other than just being a new technology.

By: John Howell

John Howell — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:11:12 +0000

Great article! Totally inspiring and excited about how I can relate this to the work that I do!

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By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:39:22 +0000

Hi Joshua,
I love the topic you are touching upon here. Passion is fenomenon that affects all sides it relates to. Firstly, those who put all of themselves into making/promoting a product and those who receive it, on the other hand. There is no better motivational drive than passion when trying to attain anything and this force is capable of moving mountains. That is why a given final product is viewed with appreciation and respect for those who put all efforts to create it. And more importantly there is no better convincing argument for a product than to be labelled ‘made with passion’.

By: See-ming Lee

See-ming Lee — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:34:58 +0000

I like this blog post. It makes me think that perhaps the reason I love Flickr so much is not necessarily because its user experience is so great, but that I truly enjoy photography–but having a great UX certainly does not hurt.

By: Owen Yeats

Owen Yeats — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:42:37 +0000

Nice article with several interesting insights into the matter. I couldn’t agree more about the binary opposition of passionate and not-passionate states. As far as hunans are concerned it is a mistake to classify the rigidly into a certain condition. Instead, one should place each person on an axis with passionate and not-passionate extremes at both ends. Moreover, it is quite obvious that human behaviour is likely to change.

By: Marta Strickland

Marta Strickland — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:04:19 +0000

You are right. There certainly isn’t a black and white here of “passionates” vs “non-passionates”. First there is the passion-tribes you belong to. I get passionate around wine, food, web, chocolate, horror movies, 80s music, etc. Someone else could get passionate around half of those things and whole list of others.

Then there are sliding scales of passion. Am I passionate enough about 80s music to post a blog about it? Maybe not, maybe only to read a blog. Am I passionate enough about wine to post a blog about? Yes definitely and sign me up for some wine blog RSS feeds while you are at it.

But even that is too static. We also need to add in the dimension of time. With the right encouragement, circumstances, and tools, I can potentially become more passionate (or less) about a particular area.

This is where I will whip out Kathy Sierra’s Kick-Ass Curve:
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/10/getting_users_p.html

So there is no passionate and non-passionate. There are multiple tribes to which I am a part of, but at varying degrees of engagement that changes over time.

Marta Strickland
Editor, ThreeMinds
http://threeminds.organic.com

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