Mavens
The word Maven comes from the Yiddish, and it means 'one who accumulates knowledge'.
Mavens not only obsess on getting information. What sets them apart is that once they figure something out they want to tell people about their find. They are more socially motivated.
It must be noted that these kinds of people do not want to persuade but are more motivated to educate and to help.
To be a Maven is to be a teacher, but it is also, even more emphatically, to be a student.
Mavens are really information brokers, sharing and trading what they know.
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Malcom Gladwell forms an interesting account of how a piece of extraordinary news can travel a long distance in a short time. These are what he calls social/word-of-mouth epidemics. Word-of-mouth communication remains the most important form of human communication.
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