Connectors are people in a community who know large numbers of people and who are in the habit of making introductions. Connectors usually know people across an array of social, cultural, professional, and economic circles, and make a habit of introducing people who work or live in different circles. Although connectors are rare -- only one in several thousand people might be thought of as a true connector -- they are, like mavens and salesmen, very important in the healthy function of civil society and business. Connectors are also important in trendsetting. One type of connector is a Weisberg, particularly valued in urban cultural settings. For the Scrabble-playing algorithm, see Maven (Scrabble). ... Salesman is a 1969 cinema verité documentary film which follows four salesmen of expensive Bibles door-to-door in a low-income neighborhood which cannot afford expensive Bibles. ... Civil society or civil institutions refers to the totality of voluntary civic and social organizations or institutions which form the basis of a functioning society as opposed to the force backed structures of a state (regardless of that states political system). ... Historically, the term business referred to activities or interests. ... In statistics, a trend is a long-term movement in time series data after other components have been accounted for. ...

Author Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term connector in his 2000 book The Tipping Point. Paul Revere, Roger Horchow, Ahmed Ibrahim, and Lois Weisberg are notable connectors. Malcolm Gladwell (born 1963) is the author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, one of the bestselling (and hailed as one of the most influential) nonfiction books of the past decade. ... The Tipping Point (ISBN 0316316962) is a book by Malcolm Gladwell, first published by Little Brown in 2000. ... Portrait of Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley, c. ... Samuel Roger Horchow (born July 3, 1928, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a catalog entrepreneur and Broadway producer. ... Ahmed Ibrahim is a brigadier general, and police chief, of the Iraqi police. ...