Geoffrey Moore, author, breaks down early adopters into five categories: the enthusiast, visionary, pragmatist, conservative and the laggard. I’m definitely not the laggard, nor the conservative who’s preference isn’t change. The pragmatist is basically a lemming according to Moore’s definition, so no fit there either. I’m partially an enthusiast, but also feel Moore’s visionary definition fits:

[Geoffrey] Moore says. “Tech visionaries are more practical than enthusiasts, though. They look at how new devices will affect them or their business. “They’re thinking, ‘If I or my organization were to adopt this new technology, how would it change our competitiveness?’ “

I definitely look at most new websites, products, services and ask how it will enhance our business or personal lives. If the answer is not at all, or very little, it’s onto the next item. The neat thing about being a techie is that there are always new and/or updated things to look at and review.

On the Mac, for example, I recently came across a cool freeware app called Active Timer that keeps track of time spent in seconds using each application. I wrote earlier today that I’m on the lookout for something in Windows like this because I spend more time in Windows than on the Mac. Any Hmm readers have any hints/suggestions on this one?

Getting back to the article, what type of techie are you? Or are you not a techie at all?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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