early adopter

Examples of early adopter in the following topics:

• Applying the Diffusion of Innovation Theory

  • Early adopters: This is the second fastest category of individuals who adopt an innovation.
  • Early majority: Individuals in this category adopt an innovation after a varying degree of time.
  • This time of adoption is significantly longer than with the innovators and early adopters.
  • The early majority tends to be slower in the adoption process, has above average social status, has contact with early adopters, and seldom holds positions of opinion leadership in a system.
  • Categories of innovation adopters include innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards.

• Communications Channels

  • In the early stages of a project, there's no need to have separate user and developer forums.
  • It's much better to have everyone involved with the software talking together, in one "room. " Among early adopters, the distinction between developer and user is often fuzzy; to the extent that the distinction can be made, the ratio of developers to users is usually much higher in the early days of the project than later on.
  • While you can't assume that every early adopter is a programmer who wants to hack on the software, you can assume that they are at least interested in following development discussions and in getting a sense of the project's direction.

• The Rate of Adoption

  • The rate of adoption is defined as the relative speed with which members of a social system adopt an innovation.
  • The rate of adoption is defined as the relative speed with which members of a social system adopt an innovation.
  • Critical mass is the time in the adoption curve when enough individuals have adopted an innovation so that the continued adoption of the innovation is self-sustaining.
  • Provide positive reactions and benefits for early adopters of an innovation.
  • The adoption process is an individual phenomenon describing the series of stages an individual undergoes from first hearing about a product to finally adopting it.

• The Technology Life Cycle

  • The other important consideration is the differentiation in consumer adoption of new technological innovations.
  • Early Adopters - A larger but still relatively small demographic, these individuals are generally risk-oriented and highly adaptable to new technology.
  • Early adopters follow the innovators in embracing new products, and tend to be young and well-educated.
  • Early Majority - Much larger and more careful than the previous two groups, the early majority are open to new ideas but generally wait to see how they are received before investing.
  • This adoption chart highlights the way in which consumers embrace new products and services.

• Painting

  • Surviving paintings that feature early Christian art are most often found in Roman catacombs.
  • Furthermore, early Christians used Roman forms and styles.
  • Early Christians also adapted Roman motifs and gave new meanings to what had been pagan symbols.
  • Among the motifs adopted were the peacock, grapevines, and the "good shepherd" .
  • Compare imagery found in early Christian art with that of its pagan predecessor

• Native Americans in the 1490's

  • Although not all Mississippian peoples practiced all of the following activities, they were distinct from their ancestors in adoption of some or all of these traits.
  • The Mississippian peoples also adopted the use of riverine (or, more rarely, marine) shell-tempering agents in their ceramics.
  • Each of these periods is an arbitrary historical distinction that varies from region to region, depending on the speed of adoption or development of given Mississippian traits.
  • Early Mississippian cultures mark the transition of a particular community from the Late Woodland period way of life (c. 500–1000 C.E.).
  • The population of Cahokia dispersed early in this period (1,350–1,400 C.E.), perhaps migrating to other rising political centers.

• Policy Adoption

  • Policy adoption is the third phase of the policy process in which policies are adopted by government bodies for future implementation.
  • The media can also play a key role in policy adoption.
  • Governors or mayors can adopt policies to bring about change on a state or local level.
  • Bush's plan for Social Security prevented policy adoption.
  • Identify which groups can expedite or retard the adoption of policy

• Protective Tariffs

  • During the early years of the United States, protective tariffs were put in place to aid the new nation's economy; however, the taxes caused tension in the South.
  • The industrial age was just starting, and the United States had little or no textile industry, which was the keystone of early industrial societies.
  • The high protectionist tariffs Hamilton originally called for were not adopted until after the War of 1812, when nationalists such as Henry Clay and John C.
  • Nearly every northern Congressman was eager to adopt a higher tariff rate for his local industry.
  • The passing of the ordinance, which later became known as the Nullification Crisis, also sparked early discussions of secession from the Union among radical factions.

• Basic Assumptions of the Bohr Model

  • Bohr explained hydrogen's spectrum successfully by adopting a quantization condition and by introducing the Planck constant in his model.
  • We have seen that Planck adopted a new condition of energy quantization to explain the black body radiation, where he introduced the Planck constant $h$ for the first time.
  • Here, Bohr explained the atomic hydrogen spectrum successfully for the first time by adopting a quantization condition and by introducing the Planck constant in his atomic model.
  • Over the period of radical development in the early 20th century, physicists began to realize that it was essential to introduce the notion of "quantization" to explain microscopic worlds.

• Imperial Sculpture under the Nervan-Antonines

  • Imperial portraiture of men and women in the early- to mid second century reflects increasing austerity and interest in the Greeks.
  • Since he had no natural sons of his own, Nerva adopted a young and popular general, Trajan, to be his successor.
  • Nerva's successor and adopted son Trajan was a much more successful emperor who was well liked by both the Senate and the people of Rome.
  • Hadrian, Trajan's adopted son and heir, peacefully became emperor in 117 CE.
  • Antonius Pius's adoptive sons Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius are also identified by the beards they wore.